Tammy H. (bluesooner) reviewed on 7/24/2009

Helpful Score: 4

I tried. I really tried to like this, but the author's style just didn't work for me. Maybe this book wouldn't have been such a disappointment if I hadn't been looking for more of a tie-in to "Julia" than what was there. There's only the briefest actual reference to Child at the beginning of each chapter, and then it's these obscure premarital dalliances that really tell us nothing of the real Julia Child. The overall writing style of Powell was just not for me....she uses page after page of useless personal anecdotes of her friends unraveling lives when all I wanted to read about was COOKING for crying out loud! I skipped lines, then paragraphs, then pages....made no difference. There wasn't enough detail about the recipes, the cooking, Julia Child. Too much drivel about drunken friends, going home to Texas, and her unhappy job. And I never did understand the title: just how did her year of cooking become dangerous, exactly????? I was disappointed, to be sure.

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