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Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

Julie & Julia

Back Bay Books

Recounts how the author escaped the doldrums of an unpromising career and lackluster Queens apartment by mastering every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a year-long endeavor of humor and accomplishment that transformed her life. 150,000 first printing.

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

Little. Brown and Company

Julie & Julia is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalize  her marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524  recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume  I, in a period of 365 days.  The result is a masterful medley of Bridget  Jones' Diary meets Like Water for Chocolate, mixed with a healthy dose of  original wit, warmth, and inspiration that sets this memoir apart from most  tales of personal redemption.  When we first meet Julie, she's a frustrated temp-to-perm secretary who  slaves away at a thankless job, only to return to an equally demoralizing  apartment in the outer boroughs of Manhattan each evening. At the urging of  Eric, her devoted and slightly geeky husband, she decides to start a blog  that will chronicle what she dubs the "Julie/Julia Project." What follows is  a year of butter-drenched meals that will both necessitate the wearing of an  unbearably uncomfortable girdle on the hottest night of the year, as well as  the realization that life is what you make of it and joy is not as  impossible a quest as it may seem, even when it's -10 degrees out and your  pipes are frozen.  Powell is a natural when it comes to connecting with her readers, which is  probably why her blog generated so much buzz, both from readers and media  alike. And while her self-deprecating sense of humor can sometimes dissolve  into whininess, she never really loses her edge, or her sense of purpose.  Even on day 365, she's working her way through Mayonnaise Collee and ending  the evening "back exactly where we started--just Eric and me, three cats and  Buffy...sitting on a couch in the outer boroughs, eating, with Julia  chortling alongside us...."  Inspired and encouraging, Julie and Julia is a unique opportunity to  join one woman's attempt to change her life, and have a laugh, or ten, along  the way. --Gisele Toueg

Fig Tree

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 crème brûlée.

The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) is now a major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia, the film Julie & Julia will be released by Sony Pictures on August 7, 2009.

Julie & Julia365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

Bullfinch Press

With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. 
 Simultaneous Publication with Little Brown's Standard Print edition.

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her ... Living

Arts & Literature

Thorndike Press

W.F.HOWES

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