"The Blooker Prize"

A 32-year old New Yorker who spent a year trying to master every recipe in a book of French Cookery has become the inaugural winner of a prize devoted to books born of blogs. Julie Powell, a frustrated unpublished author approaching 30 in a dead end office job,came up with the idea of attempting to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 cookbook Mastering the art of French Cooking.
Her husband suggested chronicling her eforts online,where her musings on life,love and cooking drew an ever-larger cult following.The blog led to a publishing deal: Julie and Julia:365 Days,524 Recipes,1 Tiny Kitchen Apartment and it sold more than 100,000 copies.
Julie Powell claims that she had no idea wat a blog was until a week before she actually started writing.

She is quoted as: The medium really liberated me and motivated me to do the work and not obsess over the details.The community aspect of blogging and the intearction with others kept me honest,kept me writing and kept me from sinking into my habitual self-loathing.

The prize was established by Bob Young who made a fortune from his Red Hat Software Business.

To find out more about the The Blooker Prize:

http://lulublookerprize.typepad.com/

~A ,The blogger Enthused