Julie and Julia

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.