Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
by By Powell, Julie
Category: Biography & Autobiography , Personal Memoirs

Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture.  Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto.  The film is written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia.