Julie Powell
Julie Powell
Julie Powell, née Fosteris an American author best known for her book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, and a subsequent movie...
ProfessionBlogger
Date of Birth20 April 1973
CityAustin, TX
broken-heart two together
It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.
running art islands
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes
fighting eggs atoms
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.
challenges cooking feelings
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
journey perfection stronger
Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it.
writing creative obsession
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
beach coins too-much
You can never have too much butter.
simple potatoes easy
Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.
believe generosity people
People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. ... I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.
tools way doe
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.
night the-end-of-the-day energy
Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift to myself at the end of the day. Even if it didn't go smoothly, it was still a gift.
mean home eggs
I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.