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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

by Julie Powell

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Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto. The film is written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia.

Synopsis:

Powell needs something to break the monotony of her life. So, she invents a deranged assignment: She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," and cook all 524 recipes in the span of just one year.
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wintermj59, September 8, 2009 (view all comments by wintermj59)
Anyone who cooks, male or female, will enjoy this book. I loved the comparisons of Julie & Julia Child. I wasn't a Julia Child fan years back when she was very popular, but I am now. I enjoyed reading about Julie's very unusual way of challenging herself. This is a case of "Should one read the book first or see the movie first?" Both were excellent.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780316042512
Subtitle:
My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Author:
Powell, Julie
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
Subject:
Cooking
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Women
Publication Date:
July 2009
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
362
Dimensions:
6.82x4.06x1.06 in. .43 lbs.
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