Powell, Julie.
Summary: The author recounts how she escaped the doldrums of an unpromising career by mastering every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 classic, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a year-long endeavor that transformed her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lebovitz, David.
Summary: "A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes from Chez Panisse pastry chef turned popular food blogger David Lebovitz, reflecting the way modern Parisians eat today and featuring lush photography taken around Paris and in David's Parisian kitchen. French cooking has come a long way since the days of Escoffier. The culinary culture of France has changed and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 LEBDrummond, Ree.
Summary: In her folksy, wonderfully engaging voice, Drummond shares how she learned to cope with the isolation and peculiarities of an Oklahoman ranch life, from chasing beavers out of the pond and saddling horses, to cooking for a man who believes the sun rises and sets in a steak and baked potato. Includes delicious recipes such as cowboy calzones, pioneer woman's ribeye steaks, cheese grits, fresh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.597 DruCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.597 DRUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.597 DRUBard, Elizabeth.
Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 944.361 BARDMajumdar, Simon.
Summary: An internationally popular food savant and blogger chronicles his yearlong journey around the world in search of everything delicious.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 MAJPowell, Julie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.5 POWBrowne, Meghan P.
Summary: "A nonfiction picture book that tells the fascinating story of the honeybee colonies that lived on the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and survived the devastating 2019 fire"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 BROOlney, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1992
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 OLNGreenspan, Dorie.
Summary: Shares the master pastry chef's passion for taste and texture with a collection of recipes for classic and innovative creams, cookies, tarts, and cakes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 HERSlater, Nigel.
Summary: A memoir by a noted food writer and cookbook author shares the story of growing up in 1960s suburban England, remembering his childhood through the food in his family's pantry and the development of his own culinary talents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 SLASummary: The classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper about the French and Indian War, and a white frontiersman raised by Indians. Bonus features included.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Beck, Simone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 BECWaldee, Lynne Marie.
Summary: An introduction to the cooking of France, featuring basic recipes for everyday breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes, as well as typical menus and a brief description of the special features of a French table setting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5944 WALChild, Julia.
Summary: A one-of-a-kind, brilliant cookbook which has sold half a million copies. Julia blends classic techniques with free-style American cooking, emphasizing lightness, freshness and simpler preparations. More than 800 recipes and 600 color photographs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook ChildCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.512 CHICreasy, Rosalind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Periplus 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 CRESummary: Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUL RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Julie 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JULGuiliano, Mireille
Summary: The #1 "New York Times bestselling author of "French Women Don't Get Fat "offers a long-awaited collection of delicious, healthy recipes and advice on eating well without gaining weight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GUIWestover, Tara
Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WESSummary: The life and legacy of Julia Child is remembered and celebrated in this special program. The film tells two love stories: one between Julia and Paul Child, the other between Julia and French food. It includes photos never before seen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 JULHolt, Geraldene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Powell, Julie.
Summary: Julie Powell is a bored, 30-year-old secretary living in a rundown apartment in Queens. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, so she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes, in the span of one year. But she comes to realize there's more to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.5 POWPowell, Julie.
Summary: Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy, but as she moves...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FoodPowellSummary: Forty of the world's greatest chefs relate outrageous true tales from their kitchens. From hiring a blind line cook to flooding the room with meringue to being terrorized by a French owl, these behind-the-scenes accounts are as entertaining as they are revealing. A reminder that even the chefs we most admire aren't always perfect.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2005