Prior to her Julie/Julia project, Powell had never eaten an egg before she tackled Oeufs à la Fondue de Fromage. At various points in the blog, Powell confessed to loathing beans, olives, anchovies, salad, spinach, eggs and even fresh peas ("little green sacs of wet flour").
It does not seem like it. It's interesting though. She clearly made the play that we are so used seeing at this point and did it fairly early on (way back in '03).
She clearly could not cook and did not care much about it. Then she needs a project to garner attention, so she picks a hobby for the lack of a better word, and proceeds to muscle in. Same shit as any culture vulture; this is why gatekeeping is important. It worked though, she got published and a movie deal. I'm just glad that an elderly Julia Childs thought her blog was stupid.
This bit from her wiki really gets me:
Was she human?
It does not seem like it. It's interesting though. She clearly made the play that we are so used seeing at this point and did it fairly early on (way back in '03).
She clearly could not cook and did not care much about it. Then she needs a project to garner attention, so she picks a hobby for the lack of a better word, and proceeds to muscle in. Same shit as any culture vulture; this is why gatekeeping is important. It worked though, she got published and a movie deal. I'm just glad that an elderly Julia Childs thought her blog was stupid.