Julie Powell

“One theory on cannibals, of course, is that they eat parts of their slain enemies to benefit from that person's greatest assets…

— Julie Powell

“These are the times when we aficionados of the gas stove know we are on the side of God.”

— Julie Powell

“Eric had to make me wake up for long enough to take out my contacts.”

— Julie Powell

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make…

— Julie Powell

You can never have too much butter.

— Julie Powell

“You know that dejection that comes upon you when you realize that the person you're talking to might as well be from…

— Julie Powell

“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

“It was only once I was in the car ... that the only two reasons I hadn't joined right in with the…

— Julie Powell

“I’m the kind of person, who, when bored or unhappy, either drinks myself into oblivion or cooks very unhealthy things; Sally is…

— Julie Powell

“Fiddling with damp tarragon left me so intensely irritated that when I was done I had to stick the ramekin/mise en place…

— Julie Powell

“Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.”

— Julie Powell

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

— Julie Powell

“How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things.…

— Julie Powell

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…

— Julie Powell

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on…

— Julie Powell

“Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why.”

— Julie Powell

“There are dinner parties ruined by guests, and there are dinner parties ruined by hosts, and then there are dinner parties when…

— Julie Powell

“... I began to ponder; this life we had for ourselves, Eric and I, it felt like the opposite of Potage Parmentier.…

— Julie Powell

“But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of…

— Julie Powell

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

— Julie Powell

“My brother wrote another refrigerator magnet poem, when he was probably nineteen or twenty: 'When the flood comes/ I will swim to…

— Julie Powell

“It did not seem possible, much as he craved the comfort of a woman of intelligence, of humor and balance and perception.”

— Julie Powell

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and…

— Julie Powell

“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

“Salomé...possibly the least successful play in history.”

— Julie Powell