Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Softcover

Powell, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316013269 ISBN 13: 9780316013260

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2006

Synopsis

The bestselling memoir that inspired the Nora Ephron film starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, Julia and Julia is "irresistible...Bridget Jones meets The French Chef"(Philadelphia Inquirer).
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 of life rediscovered through aspics, calves' brains and crème brûlée.
"Bracingly original, Julia and Julia is clearly the work of a writer who has reclaimed her soul." --People

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Review:

"Hilarious and ferociously articulate. Powell wrote candidly and vividly about her antic adventures with Child's recipes... But perhaps more importantly, she wrote about food in a rich and raucous context, about putting pot-au-feu on the table through plumbing crises and existential desperation; about both Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom and the difficulties of finding marrow bones."
-Entertainment Weekly

"Bracingly original, JULIE & JULIA is clearly the work of a writer who has reclaimed her soul." -People

"Powell is not a domestic goddess; she's emphatically, unembarrassedly a domestic mortal. But she is also a genuinely gifted thinker and writer about food." -Time

"You don't have to like cooking or French food to enjoy the zippiness of Ms. Powell's prose or to admire the purpose of her project....And she really did change her life. Now she's a writer. A good one."
-The Wall Street Journal

From the Back Cover:

`Sassy, quirky and disarmingly honest' Marie Claire

`Restore[s] your faith in eating for pleasure' Vogue

`A gem of a book ... both hilarious and touching' Glamour

`What lies at the heart is the power of food to transform the everyday act
of eating into a complex and potentially life-changing experience' Guardian
Review

`An entertaining romp portraying the joys and frustrations familiar to any
ambitious domestic cook' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316013269
• ISBN 13: 9780316013260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 307