Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

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  • Jane on August 12, 2009

    Loved this book. I don't know why Julie gets so much negative press from the serious foodie brigade. Maybe because I grew up in England so don't see Julia as the icon/saint of cooking as many Americans do. I thought this book was entertaining and I was impressed that anyone would choose to cook 524 French recipes in one year. And then write about it in a funny way.

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  • ISBN 10 0316013269
  • ISBN 13 9780316013260
  • Published Sep 07 2006
  • Format Paperback
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Little, Brown

Publishers Text

New in paperback! 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.


Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a tiny apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's worn, dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes--in the span of one year.


At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye.


And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her outer-borough kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.

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