What I'll Be Reading Next

I have a battered old copy of this book that I bought in 1990 or '91, after seeing the movie with Julia Roberts. I liked the movie and still do, for the charming little house she moves into after faking her death to get away from her abusive husband (house porn!)

I liked the book, and still do, for the food descriptions. There's one where Laura/Julia is eating her first square meal after living off of only beans and oatmeal with ketchup for a week or two, and the description of the hot crunchy rolls with golden melted butter, the salad with jewel-like bits of tomato, chocolate cake dappled with chocolate icing...well, it went something like that. I've never before heard a description of lasagna, rolls, salad, and chocolate cake that literally made me start drooling.