Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Couverture souple

Powell, Julie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316013269 ISBN 13 : 9780316013260

Editeur : Back Bay Books, 2006

Synopsis

Julie and Julia Powell needs something to break the monotony of her life. So, she invents a deranged assignment: She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," and cook all 524 recipes in the span of just one year. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Now in paperback-the format in which it's destined to become a reading group favorite-the most heralded and hilarious memoir of recent years:

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 crème brûlée.

The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) is now a major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia, the film Julie & Julia will be released by Sony Pictures on August 7, 2009.

Revue de presse :

Sassy, quirky and disarmingly honest (Marie Claire)

Restores your faith in eating for pleasure (Vogue)

I savoured each dish with the same delight as the author (Sarah Vine The Times)

A gem of a book...both hilarious and touching (Glamour)

What lies at the heart is the power of food to transform the everyday act of eating into a complex and potentially life-changing experience (Guardian)

An entertaining romp portraying the joys and frustrations familiar to any ambitious domestic cook (Sunday Times)

Heartwarming...highly entertaining (Daily Mail)

Reads like a rip-roaringly good novel...a deliciously funny romp (BBC Good Food Magazine)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Back Bay Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316013269
• ISBN 13: 9780316013260
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336