●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. 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 Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes -- in the span of one year. 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 Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye.●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. ●本書可以說是[慾望城巿]美食版。描述年過30的茱莉(艾美亞當斯飾)過著一成不變的生活，無聊的秘書工作，生活沒有目標。然而在閱讀傳奇女廚師茱莉亞(梅莉史翠普飾)的著作後，決定師法茱莉亞，用一年的時間，每天按照食譜書《掌握法國烹飪藝術》做菜，並把烹飪成果連同她的城市愛情生活公布在部落格上，從此讓她的生活有了改變