Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Kitchen Apartment about her year cooking all 424 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was today awarded the first Blooker Prize
While its better known near-namesake has on occasion been accused of elitism, the Blooker Prize claims to be based on more democratic principles. All the books, or “blooks”, entered for the award started life as blogs.