Julie & Julia
In Julie & Julia, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul, with the wit of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs!
Julie Powell is 30 years old, lives in a run-down Queens apartment, and works a soul-sucking secretarial job that isn't going anywhere. She needs something to break up the monotony of her life, so she devises a bizarre task. She will cook all 524 recipes from Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which her mother has dog-eared. Over the course of a year.
She initially believes it will be simple. But as she progresses from the straightforward Potage Parmentier (potato soup) to the more complex realms of aspics and crépes, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads with Julia's stern warble in her ear. She sends her husband out late at night to get more butter and almost never serves dinner before midnight. She learns how to make the ideal Orange Bavarian, how to extract marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver.
And somewhere along the way, she realizes she has transformed her kitchen into a work of art and cuisine. She has surpassed the ordinariness of her life through extraordinary humor, hysteria, and perseverance.
Author: Julie Powell
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031610969X/ref=x_gr_mw_bb_sout
