Julie and Julia begins with Julie, a 29-year old woman, in a gynecologist room where she was told that she may not be able to have children because of the two times she decided to donate her eggs. She keeps herself together until the doctor leaves because she refuses to cry in front of him. When she leaves, she walks through the streets of New York to get to her apartment and reflects on how she hates her job, how she hates that the subway train breaks down more times than it runs, how she has a crappy car that she and her husband rarely drive, and how she hates that she always moves to small, run-down apartments. Julie Powell gives a flashback of a time where she visited her parents in Texas, and that while she was there, she found her mother’s
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She was offered to work a permanent job there after the Towers were hit and destroyed. She accepted the job and began to answer phone calls from people with ideas for the memorial of the event. Julie describes some of the ideas as really dumb and how it is mind-numbing to have to listen to them all day. She has three close friends who all have a completely different personality compared to her and they are all younger than her. Since Julie married her high school sweetheart, her friends look up to her for relationship advice. She keeps up with her blog by making a project where she cooks all of the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year. Her blog grows some fans and she feels pleased that there are people who enjoy her blog and keep up with it on a regular basis. When there are days when she hasn’t updated her blog, her readers get worried that she has given up on her project and encourage her to keep going. Most of the recipes in the book are very difficult and she even has to use bone marrow for some recipes that call for it. She has a hard time keeping it together while she cooks sometimes, and it even has an effect on her marriage to some extent. While cooking the recipes from the book and eating what she’s made, Julie finds that she likes the food that she refused to
She was offered to work a permanent job there after the Towers were hit and destroyed. She accepted the job and began to answer phone calls from people with ideas for the memorial of the event. Julie describes some of the ideas as really dumb and how it is mind-numbing to have to listen to them all day. She has three close friends who all have a completely different personality compared to her and they are all younger than her. Since Julie married her high school sweetheart, her friends look up to her for relationship advice. She keeps up with her blog by making a project where she cooks all of the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year. Her blog grows some fans and she feels pleased that there are people who enjoy her blog and keep up with it on a regular basis. When there are days when she hasn’t updated her blog, her readers get worried that she has given up on her project and encourage her to keep going. Most of the recipes in the book are very difficult and she even has to use bone marrow for some recipes that call for it. She has a hard time keeping it together while she cooks sometimes, and it even has an effect on her marriage to some extent. While cooking the recipes from the book and eating what she’s made, Julie finds that she likes the food that she refused to