Powell wrote an editorial for The New York Times piercing the sanctimony of the organic food movement and made herself a whole new group of enemies. It was gleefully reported that neither Child nor her editor, Judith Jones, had thought much of Powell's project. She went from blogger to "food personality," which meant she was fair game for a takedown. But in 2005, the book came out, and Powell suddenly had the mantle of authority thrust upon her.
When Powell began her quest to cook every recipe in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year in 2002, she won a huge audience of readers who found her confessions of ineptitude in the kitchen and in life real and relatable.
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It's also why the animosity aimed at Julie Powell, the author of the blog that begat the book that begat the movie Julie & Julia, is so misplaced.
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Eight hundred words or so in, and you still wouldn't know how to fry a squash blossom, but you'd know a whole lot about me.
Next would be the paragraph where my husband/boyfriend made an adorably skeptical remark about eating flowers, followed by a swift (and adorable) attitude reversal once he learned they'd be dipped in beer. Then you'd hear how I came across them in the picturesque farmer's market or my own sweet little backyard vegetable patch, and you'd see a picture of them, all pretty yellow and orange petals. First, you would probably have to read about my past relationship with squash blossoms. If you were reading about my squash blossoms on a food blog (just as I read about several other amateur cooks' squash blossoms on their food blogs to figure out how to make them), it would have taken you several paragraphs to get to the denouement: they were delicious. I stuffed them with cheese, dipped them in a batter of Guinness, half and half, flour, and salt, and fried them in oil. Last night I made fried zucchini squash blossoms.
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