Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

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.