Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Powell, Julie

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Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Powell, Julie Format: PaperbackPublished by Little, Brown, 2006 Now in paperback-the format in which it's destined to become a rea ding group favorite-the most heralded and hilarious memoir of recent years: 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 crème brûlée. The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) is now a major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia, the film Julie & Julia will be released by Sony Pictures on August 7, 2009.Product image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale. Show more