Full name: Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

Author: Julie Powell Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316042512 031604251X

The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & 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 crv®me brvªlv©e. Similar books: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn Spiced by Dalia Jurgensen My Life in France by Julia Child Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones Talking with My Mouth Full by Gail Simmons A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg Backstage with Julia by Nancy Verde Barr Spoon Fed by Kim Severson My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss Consuming Passions by Michael Lee West Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover