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Julie and Julia
My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Description
The bestselling memoir that’s “irresistible….A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef” (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia.
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child’s legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It’s a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey — life rediscovered through aspics, calves’ brains and cré me brûlée.
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child’s legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It’s a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey — life rediscovered through aspics, calves’ brains and cré me brûlée.
Praise
"A feast, a voyage, and a marvel."
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
"Laugh-out-loud funny."
—Boston Globe
"Powell writes like a culinary Chris Rock - profane, honest, and very funny."
—Seattle Times
"A really good book."
—Washington Post Book World
