May 12, 2005

The Julie/Julia Project. A woman named Julie cooks her way through Julia Child's entire "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in one year (2002-2003). Over 500 recipes, on a government worker's budget, in an apartment in the outer boroughs of New York City.

The blog has been turned into a book that will be released later this year. Here's an update at the conclusion of the project in 2003. The navigation gets a little funky after November 30, so here are links for December, January, and April.

posted by patita 19 years ago
  • This is very cool. I am currently working on improving my cooking, but not so single-mindedly as she did. Which is why I'll be unlikely to have a book deal based on my experience.
  • On a much smaller scale, Mr. Koko likes to make ALL of the recipes in a cookbook before moving on to the next cookbook. We had chicken dishes for dinner for 5 solid weeks once. Chicken chicken chicken chicken ...
  • Goose!
  • *collapses laughing* Has Mr. Koko tried the cock cookbook yet? cock cock cock cock... days like this on MoFi... can't get enough...
  • I like to float around. Usually I'll wait til the mood strikes me. A few weeks ago I did a soufflĂ© for the first time. Sometime this year, I'll be making a timpano. In the meantime, I'm deciding what to make.
  • Here's the June link.
  • This gives me an idea for a video. It would be fun, since I love to cook and make movies, to do something similar, but in the process to tape someone working their way through a book of recipies and videotape the process. I would also invite friends to sample the cooking and tape the dinner parties as well. Could get expensive though...
  • exactly... Makes me wonder just how much of a toll it took on her wallet. Not to mention time spent finding all of the needed ingredients! Well, that's what happens everytime I pull out one of the cookbooks and choose something nice to prepare - end up running around half the day trying to procure all the proper ingredients
  • took a huge toll on her wallet and her time--she ended up putting a donation link on the site. The stories of hunting down ingredients, and then schlepping everything back to Long Island City are wonderful (and cringe-inducing).
  • Thank you for the link, patita! I wanted to try this myself years ago with an excellent vegetarian cookbook I got as a gift, but stopped after two recipes. I might have to try again this summer, when the farmer's markets get loaded up with my favorite produce.
  • And the July link.
  • squidranch, better yet... put it on cable access! woo! the squidranch and friends supper hour!
  • That would be a fun show. On my little high school public access channel years ago a kid I knew had a show called "Cooking with Est." It was great fun to watch. Wish we had decent cable access here in NW Ohio...
  • Est, as in Werner Erhardt est, or something else?
  • August link, or the end of the project.
  • Sandspider, how did the souffle work? I'm strangely tempted to make one now. I learned to cook in part from my grandmother, who avidly followed cooking shows. The only problem was that she tried to follow them in real time. Sometimes the results were scary, but once in a while there was some brilliance. One dish became a favorite that was brought out for special occasions. Kind of describes my own kitchen foibles.
  • squidranch, that would have been fun, but no :) The kid who was on the show was named Esteban, but everyone called him "Est."