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Julie Powell

Julie Powell is the author of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously based on her blog The Julie/Julia Project. Her forthcoming book, Cleaving: A Story of Meat, Marriage, and Obsession, will be published in December.

articles/2009/08/04/fresh-picks-6/fresh-picks---powell-french-cooking_ixhndz

Fresh Picks

The woman behind breakout blog The Julie/Julia Project and the upcoming film Julie & Julia tells us what she’s loving right now.

Julie Powell

articles/2009/05/15/bacon-tastes-good-get-over-it/powell-bacon_26874_tsskmw

'Bacon Tastes Good, Get Over It'

The author of Julie & Julia, the book that inspired Nora Ephron’s summer hit-to-be, says a new book about bacon manages to render a delicious topic thoroughly unpalatable.

Julie Powell

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