Julie And Julia: My Year Of Cooking Dangerously

Author: Julie Powell

Pushing 30, living in a rundown apartment and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with a deranged assignment – to take Julia Child’s 1961 ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’ and cook all 524 recipes – in a year!….Read More

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