Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's < Mastering the Art of French Cooking< and saved her soul.< Simultaneous Publication with Little Brown's Standard Print edition.

After a misspent youth involving loads of dead-end jobs and several questionable decisions, Julie Powell, author of Julie and Julia, has found her calling as a writer-cum-butcher. She lives in Long Island City, Queens, when she isn't in Kingston, NY, cutting up animals.