{"product_id":"9780316013260","title":"Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously","description":"With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's \u003ci\u003eMastering the Art of French Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e and saved her soul.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e         Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a tiny apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's worn, dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic \u003ci\u003eMastering the Art of French Cooking,\u003c\/i\u003e and she will cook all 524 recipes -- in the span of one year.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e         At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there's more to \u003ci\u003eMastering the Art of French Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e than meets the eye.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e         And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her outer-borough kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e         \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Born and raised in Austin, Texas, JULIE POWELL has resided in one place or another in the outer boroughs of New York City for the past eight years. Currently, she lives in Long Island City, New York, with her husband, Eric, three cats, and a snake.  ","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046360170736,"sku":"9780316013260","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316013260_p0.jpg?v=1763761453","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316013260","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}