num_pages: 307
description: The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" ( Philadelphia Inquirer ) that inspired Julie &amp; 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.
language: English
title: Julie and Julia: My Years of Cooking Dangerously
titlecomplete: Julie and Julia: My Years of Cooking Dangerously
characters: Eric Ross, Julia von Mirbach, Julie Barenson, Julie Powell, Julia Child, Eric Powell, Paul Child
genres: Chick Lit, Biography, Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction, Cooking, Foodie, Memoir, Humor, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 158901
publisher: Back Bay Books