Julie and Julia

My Year of Cooking Dangerously

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By Julie Powell

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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.

  • "A feast, a voyage, and a marvel."
    Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
  • "Laugh-out-loud funny."
    Boston Globe
  • "A really good book."
    Washington Post Book World

On Sale
Jul 1, 2009
Page Count
352 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316044271

Julie Powell

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.

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