Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen

Julie Powell

Sep 2005 · Sold by Little, Brown

About this ebook

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 cré me brûlée.

Ratings and reviews

I loved the movie that this book inspired. However, I think that the author is a self absorbed moron after reading her book. The maggot scene towards the end of her year of cookign through JC's cookbook was really gross. My kitchen is no museum to cleanliness or anything but at least I don't have a colony of maggots living under my dish rack. Seriously woman, it's called PineSol. Use it once in a while.

The best... So wonderful....

I love this movie

About the author

After a misspent youth involving loads of dead-end jobs and several questionable decisions, Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia, has found her calling as a writer-cum-butcher. She lives in Long Island City, Queens, when she isn't in Kingston, NY, cutting up animals.