"Julie and Julia"

This book, by Julie Powell, is what gave me the idea to start a blog. Powell, a 29-year-old secretary in New York, decided one day that she would make her life more meaningful by cooking her way through Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in one year. And, she would blog about it. I found myself totally drawn into the book, maybe because of my odd fascination with reading about people with really messed up lives. A good book to read when you are looking for an escape from your own messed up life. Reading this book inspired me to flip through Julia Child's cookbook at Barnes & Noble, but I was definitely not inspired enough to actually try any of the recipes.... especially not any of the ones that involve digging out marrow from a cow bone or bisecting a live lobster.....enough said. You'd think that as a vegetarian (mostly) I would be grossed out just by reading about such things, but I was strangely mesmerized—maybe because I know I will never actually eat such things. Anyway, good old Julie seemed to be having a pretty good time with her blog, when she wasn't wrestling with mayonnaise that refused to combine, so I thought I would follow suit—without the cooking part though.