Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

Julie Powell

$7.99

Publication Date: July 1st, 2009

Publisher:

Little, Brown and Company

ISBN:

9780316042512

Pages:

400

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.

About the Author

After a misspent youth involving loads of dead-end jobs and several questionable decisions, Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia, has found her calling as a writer-cum-butcher. She lives in Long Island City, Queens, when she isn't in Kingston, NY, cutting up animals.

Praise for Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

"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