“Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows there are foods that are sexy to eat. What they don't talk about so much is foods that are sexy… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“It's all about the "French Paradox," that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, Martha's recipes, though suitably complex, fall a tad short if you're looking for aphrodisiac cooking, perhaps only because everything about a… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I needn’t… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
“One theory on cannibals, of course, is that they eat parts of their slain enemies to benefit from that person's greatest assets - their… — Julie Powell Copy Share
“These are the times when we aficionados of the gas stove know we are on the side of God.” — Julie Powell Copy Share
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a… — Julie Powell Copy Share
“You know that dejection that comes upon you when you realize that the person you're talking to might as well be from Jupiter, for… — Julie Powell Copy Share
“Unfortunately, Martha's recipes, though suitably complex, fall a tad short if you're looking for aphrodisiac cooking, perhaps only because everything about a Martha recipe,… — Julie Powell Copy Share
“It was only once I was in the car ... that the only two reasons I hadn't joined right in with the loon with… — Julie Powell Copy Share
“I’m the kind of person, who, when bored or unhappy, either drinks myself into oblivion or cooks very unhealthy things; Sally is the kind… — Julie Powell Copy Share
“Fiddling with damp tarragon left me so intensely irritated that when I was done I had to stick the ramekin/mise en place bowls back… — Julie Powell Copy Share
“Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.” — Julie Powell Copy Share
But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart. — Julie Powell Copy Share
“How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things. If marrow… — Julie Powell Copy Share
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… — Julie Powell Copy Share
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you. — Julie Powell Copy Share
