Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell Original Publication Date: 2005 Genres: Food, Memoir, Non-Fiction Source: I purchased this book Goodreads 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 créme brûlée. The somewhat controversial Julie and Julia tells the now-famous story of Julie Powell. Powell was working as a secretary in New York and living in Queens. She was miserable in her…