“If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I needn’t have worried. The taste of the marrow is rich, meaty, intense in a nearly-too-much way. In my increasingly depraved state, I could think of nothing at first but that it tasted like really good sex. But there was something more than that, even. What it really tastes like is life, well lived. Of course the cow I got marrow from had a fairly crappy life – lots of crowds and overmedication and bland food that might or might not have been a relative. But deep in his or her bones, there was a capacity for feral joy. I could taste it.” LifeSexFoodCookingMeatCowsBeefMarrow Book:Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously Source: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
“Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction.” HumorCookingSecretary Book:Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen Source: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
“Somewhere along the way, I discovered that in the physical act of cooking, especially something complex or plain old hard to handle, dwelled unsuspected reservoirs of arousal both gastronomic and sexual. If you are not one of us, the culinarily depraved, there is no way to explain what's so darkly enticing about eviscerating beef marrowbones, chopping up lobster, baking a three-layer pecan cake, and doing it for someone else, offering someone hard-won gustatory delights in order to win pleasures of another sort. Everyone knows there are foods that are sexy to eat. What they don't talk about so much is foods that are sexy to make. But I'll take a wrestling bout with recalcitrant brioche dough over being fed a perfect strawberry any day, foreplay-wise.” CookingSexyAphrodisiacFood And Sex Book:Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously Source: Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
“Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.” EnoughMomentsFeelingsChallengesFoodCookingSavedHorribleMiserableCulinaryMediocrityDoomConsumingStasis Author:Julie Powell
“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.” IfsWayWantYearsArtSometimesReasonRunningHairBlueCookingVery GoodWanderCooksIslandsRunning AwayPunkBathsPunk RockWant To Be HappyRockersFrench CookingCobalt Author:Julie Powell
