Mastering the Art of French Cooking

...is a book that was never meant to feel the heat of a stove. By comparison, Julia Child's American classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking is an austerely practical manual. Child's book inspired Julie Powell's kitchen memoir, Julie and...

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...Julia Child. August 27, 2009 Nora Ephron's movie, Julie and Julia, has sent a new edition of Julia Child's classic cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, to the top of the bestseller list. The promise made by both the film...

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...and Jacques did. We have been tuned into Julia Child this year: watching hype for the film "Julie and Julia" build and dissipate; seeing "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" climb on bestseller lists; reliving her kinship with chef...

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...his Damascene moment. He came back to Britain and taught himself to cook by reading Julia Child's seminal book Mastering The Art of French Cooking, in vogue again thanks to the film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep. Meanwhile he got a job...

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...author Julie Powell. It was her book Julie & Julia -- based on Powell's year-long blogging about cooking all 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking -- that helped inspire Ephron's screenplay and film. ''Yes, [the...

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...with their lives. The film depicts Julia's life in France in the late '40s and '50s, as she enrolls in Le Cordon Bleu, discovers her passion for cooking and publishes the seminal cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. About 50 years in...

In this article: Julia Child, Julie Powell, Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep, Nora Ephron, Amy Adams, Chris Messina, and Stanley Tucci

...blogger, to cook all 524 recipes of that cookbook in 2002. The movie had spurred sales of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," as well as other books associated with the film. Shirley Fergenson of The Ivy Bookshop Shop on Falls Road told...

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Seven years ago, a bored and canny New Yorker -- ''too old for theater, too young for children and too bitter for anything else'' -- set out to cook and blog her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking . Julie...

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Their ranks could swell even more in the wake of the new Meryl Streep movie, Julie & Julia, based partly on the story of New York food blogger Julie Powell, who cooked every recipe in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The...

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