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Chocolate and Lemon Zest Cupcakes

&
Lemon Frosting

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These are making me so hungry to want to go and make some now.

Custard Creams

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I have just been watching "Julie & Julia"

* storyline *

In 2002, Julie Powell is a young writer trapped in a rather unpleasant job at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's call center, where she answers telephone calls from victims of the September 11 attacks and members of the general public complaining about the LMDC's controversial plans for rebuilding the World Trade Center. To enliven her dreary life, she decides to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) and blogs to motivate herself and document her progress.
Woven into the story of Julie's time in Queens in the early 2000s is the story of Julia's time in Paris throughout the 1950s, where she attends Le Cordon Bleu to learn French cooking and begins collaborating on a book of French cooking for American housewives. The plot structure carefully highlights similarities in the challenges encountered by both of them. Both women get much support from their husbands, except when Powell's husband becomes fed up with her excessive devotion to her hobby and leaves her for a few days.
Eventually, Julie's blog is highlighted in a story published in The New York Times, after which her project finally begins to receive the attention of journalists, literary agents, publishers, and a dismissive response from Child herself. Although Julia's book is rejected by Houghton Mifflin, it is accepted and published by Alfred A. Knopf.

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