Julie and Julia
My Year of Cooking Dangerously
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Format: Book
Edition: First mass market edition.
Description: xiv, 362, 13 pages ; 18 cm
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.
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.
Contents:
The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes -- Joy of cooking -- You have to break a few eggs -- Hacking the marrow out of life -- ... To make an omelette -- Disaster/dinner party, dinner party/disaster -- The law of diminishing returns -- They shoot lobsters, don't they? -- The proof is in the plumbing -- Sweet smell of failure -- Flaming crepes! -- Time to move to Weehawken
Subjects:
Powell, Julie.
Child, Julia. Mastering the art of French cooking.
Women cooks -- Biography.
Cooking, French -- Anecdotes.
Powell, Julie.
Child, Julia. Mastering the art of French cooking.
Women cooks -- Biography.
Cooking, French -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780316042512 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Powell, Julie | St. Andrews Indoors | Biography | In |
Originally published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2005.