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Julia's Child (2012)

by Sarah Pinneo(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0452297311 (ISBN13: 9780452297319)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Plume

review 1: Julia is een eigen bedrijf begonnen en maakt gezonde maaltijden voor peuters. Eigenlijk is het een uit de kluiten gegroeide hobby. Het bedrijf komt in de problemen als er te veel werk is voor de drie werknemers die het bedrijf telt. Gelukkig komt er net op tijd de ideale oplossing waar iedereen blij mee is.Dit is echt een boek wat lekker weg leest. Hierdoor is het ideaal voor op vakantie. De personages zijn goed uitgewerkt het is dus echt een boek wat klopt. Wel moet het onderwerp van het boek je aanspreken anders denk ik dat het boek je niet trekt. Het is niet een boek wat mij onwijs bij blijft maar wel een lekker boek om tussen door te lezen.
review 2: I read through this book pretty quickly. When Julia becomes a mother, she decides she needs to do everythin... moreg green and organic to a pretty obsessive degree (which she freely admits) in order to save her children and the earth. She develops some toddler organic recipes (included in the book) , particularly, the "muffet" and decides to start up her own company producing these for other mothers. She borrows against their savings, hires a helper (at 40,000 a year), buys an organic farm in Vermont (at 50,000+ plus hires the owner's hippie grown kids to "farm" organically)---btw , Julia and hubs already owned a little home there already ($$$). So when Julia worries about the bottom line, which she should really, I didn't feel quite as sorry for her as I was meant to be because she's already more loaded than I'll probably ever be. And don't forget the Scottish live-in nanny she hired so she could devote herself to her little venture. Still, I pretty much enjoyed reading the book obviously. All ends well (spoiler alert) when her fledgeling company is bought out by a big corporate giant which retains her at 100,000 a year plus bennies and her single-mother off-welfare employee Marta(just in time since she discovers a lump in her breast wouldn't you know). The price is that Julia does have to travel a lot, toe the corporate party line and be away from her kids (formerly she'd at least be home late a night). So what is the lesson here---it's all a matter of choices and what you are willing to live with. A lot of food for thought, no pun intended... p.s. I did enjoy the Halloween scenes where Julia is horrified to see her less enlightened neighbors hand out candy to her kids which they relish eating under the table. I can relate as I would limit the yearly candy orgy gby getting rid of the nasty cheap candy and chucking out what was left after a week! I would hijack the baaaags of on-sale candy my mother-in-law would unload on me for the kids---funny thing, she didn't let her kids gorge on candy when they were little lol! less

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