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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
2010 The New York Times Best Seller
Finalist:Books for a Better Life -Inspirational Memoir (2005)
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Back Bay Books
- Publish Date: Sep 7th, 2006
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.24in - 5.50in - 0.93in - 0.65lb
- EAN: 9780316013260
- Categories: • Memoirs• Women• Culinary
About the Author
After a misspent youth involving loads of dead-end jobs and several questionable decisions, Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia, found her calling as a writer-cum-butcher. She passed away in 2022.
Praise for this book
"Hilarious and ferociously articulate. Powell wrote candidly and vividly about her antic adventures with Child's recipes... But perhaps more importantly, she wrote about food in a rich and raucous context, about putting pot-au-feu on the table through plumbing crises and existential desperation; about both Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom and the difficulties of finding marrow bones."
-Entertainment Weekly "Bracingly original, JULIE & JULIA is clearly the work of a writer who has reclaimed her soul." -People "Powell is not a domestic goddess; she's emphatically, unembarrassedly a domestic mortal. But she is also a genuinely gifted thinker and writer about food." -Time "You don't have to like cooking or French food to enjoy the zippiness of Ms. Powell's prose or to admire the purpose of her project....And she really did change her life. Now she's a writer. A good one."
-The Wall Street Journal
-Entertainment Weekly "Bracingly original, JULIE & JULIA is clearly the work of a writer who has reclaimed her soul." -People "Powell is not a domestic goddess; she's emphatically, unembarrassedly a domestic mortal. But she is also a genuinely gifted thinker and writer about food." -Time "You don't have to like cooking or French food to enjoy the zippiness of Ms. Powell's prose or to admire the purpose of her project....And she really did change her life. Now she's a writer. A good one."
-The Wall Street Journal