The Julie/Julia Project

nytimes.com dining section article, "A Race to Master the Art of French Cooking" about a woman named Julie's quixotic quest to methodically cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year. She's got until August 26 to complete her project and she's been blogging about her cooking project daily. Having gone through 60 pounds of butter thus far, Julie ("Jesus of Extreme Cooking") and her husband are looking forward to eating salads for dinner and wax nostalgically about the days when they were thin and beautiful. They plan to properly celebrate by sneaking water bottles filled with champagne into the Smithsonian's Julia Child's Exhibit in DC...good luck getting past security.