num_pages: 307
description: Pushing 30, living in a rundown apartment and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with a deranged assignment - to take Julia Child's 1961 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' and cook all 524 recipes - in a year!
language: English
title: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
titlecomplete: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
characters: Julia von Mirbach, Julie Powell, Julia Child, Eric Powell, Paul Child, Julie Barenson, Eric Ross
genres: Biography, Humor, Foodie, Cooking, Chick Lit, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Food, Memoir
ratings_count: 158906
publisher: Penguin Books