When Julie Powell, a 29-year-old low-level “government drone” living in Queens, set out in 2002 to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s epic “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and to write about it ...

Every so often, someone will act very angry online because a recipe they clicked on has "too much text." They wanted to make mushroom ravioli, but instead had to scroll through a bunch of words about ...

Food writing just lost two great influences. Gael Greene, New York magazine’s inaugural restaurant critic, was 88. Julie Powell, whose blog about cooking her way through Julia Child’s “Mastering the ...

In 2007 my boyfriend’s mother handed me a paperback with a yellow cover. “You’re going to love it,” she gushed. “You’re going to love her.” The book was Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny ...