Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

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.

Author: Julie Powell
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 09/07/2006
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.50w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780316013260


Award: Books for a Better Life - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/29/2006 pg. 32
People Weekly 08/24/2009 pg. 33

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.