Julie and Julia - Julie Powell
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Julie and Julia

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Language
English
Published in
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN
9780759514584
Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Julie Powell finds herself trapped in a dead-end secretarial job and a rundown Queens apartment. To escape the monotony, she devises an ambitious and slightly unhinged plan: she will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in the span of a single year. From her tiny, ill-equipped kitchen, she begins a project that will test her skills, her patience, and her marriage as she documents every success and failure online for a growing audience of readers.

What starts as a culinary challenge soon becomes a journey of self-discovery. As Powell confronts everything from simple potato soup to the complex art of boning a duck, she moves beyond the recipes to find a new sense of purpose. This memoir chronicles a year of butter, bone marrow, and personal transformation, exploring how a formidable goal, a culinary icon, and a lot of persistence can rescue a life from the ordinary and turn it into something remarkable.

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Julie and Julia Originally published in 2001
Original language
English
Original publisher Little, Brown and Company

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