Today, the Julie/Julia Project has come to an end. A year ago, Julie Powell, a New York secretary set out to cook all 536 recipes in "Mastering the Art of French Cooking", Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle and Julia Child's 1960's classic, over the course of 365 days. She has achieved this and what's more, has chronicled the whole affair with much panache (and in a sort of Bridget Jones's Diary style) in her personal weblog.
The book's foreword introduces it as ...a book for the servantless cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, timetables, children's meals, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat." Julie, who subtitles her weblog "Nobody here but us servantless American cooks... ", has evidently recreated these masterpieces in conditions somehat removed from those enjoyed by Julia Child and her colleagues back in the 1960s.
I recommend highly that you read what you can of Julie's account of the past year, before it disappears. Her weblog is hosted at blogs.salon.com which does not appear to be the most reliable, and many pages from the early days of the project seem to be no longer available. Let's hope that is just a temporary aberration, and that Julie will return to entertain and educate us once again after a well-earned rest.
