Readathon: Hour 22
Pages read: 25
Blogs visited: 3
Snacks: bottled water and a handful of sunflower seeds
In spite of her annoying tendencies, I do like Julie Powell. She's plucky regarding her cooking project, but she's willing to admit when she can't go the distance with Julia's directions. I also like her salty sense of humor. Her blog audience is starting to become more and more vocal. They dug their heels in when Powell attempted Poached Eggs in Aspic -- it's like gelatin made from calves' feet. There were 9 aspic recipes in all in Julia Child's cookbook, and her readers actually begged her not to try the others. Bon Appetit. Not.
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I'll have to read My Life In France to find out exactly how and where Julia Child found the recipes that went into her masterwork. Poached Eggs In Aspic definitely has a medieval feel to it.
1 comment:
Sometimes I wonder if I like these personalities (that are 'salty'? and/or annoying at times) because they still somehow believing in themselves enough to get the book deals, etc. and thus they remind me that I can think of myself as too lame, 'nice', and try not to ever offend anyone ever. Could this be a serious detriment to 'success' in this world!? I do want to read My Life in France. I have about 3 friends who keep telling me they'll loan it but I've got such a stack of books I want to read NOW already sigh.
Congrats on a great readathon and thx for the super sweet comment about the 'quality' of my mini-challenge. :)
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