Author

Publication

2005 - Little, Brown and Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

77,250 words, Guess

Page Count

309 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100316013269
  • ISBN-10031610969X
  • ISBN-139780316013260
  • ISBN-139780316109697
  • LibraryThing12050
and 5 more
  • Goodreads13746', '13747
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005007974
  • OCLC Control Number182987783
  • Better World Books9780316013260
  • Open LibraryOL23274126M

Classifications

  • LCCTX649.P66 A3 2006

Description

Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy, but as she moves from simple potato soup into more complicated realms, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art than meets the eye. She haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes she has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through humor, hysteria, and perseverance.--From publisher description.

Description

Recounts how the author escaped the doldrums of an unpromising career and lackluster Queens apartment by mastering every recipe in Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a year-long endeavor of humor and accomplishment that transformed her life. Reader's Guide included.

Subjects

People

Julia ChildJulie PowellJulia. Mastering the art of French cooking Child

Genres

  • Anecdotes

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Other Editions

  • Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl risked her marriage, her job and her sanity to master the art of livingLittle, Brown and Co.2005-01-01
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