ADVANCE NOTICE:
JULIE & JULIA: MY YEAR OF COOKING DANGEROUSLY
(MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION)
Julie Powell
Penguin B fmt PB $28.00 9780141043982 – available 31 August

Trapped in a boring job and living in a tiny apartment in New York, Julie Powell regularly finds herself weeping on the way home from work. Then one night, through her mascara-smudged eyes, Julie notices that the few items she’s grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as described in Julia Childs’ legendary cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. And The Project is born.
Julie begins to cook – every one of the 524 recipes in the book, in the space of just one year. This is Julie’s story, as gradually, from oeufs en cocotte to bifstek sauté au beurre, from ‘Bitch Rice’ to preparing live lobsters, she realises that this deranged Project is changing her life. The richness of the thousands of sauces she slaves over is beginning to spread into her life, and she begins to find the joie de vivre that has been missing for too many years.

Six weeks after Penguin NZ release the movie-tie in edition of the book Julie & Julia, directed by Nora Ephron and starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci opens in cinemas 22nd October, 2009.

Check out the J & J movie trailer here http://www.julieandjulia.com/ , it looks really good.
Is there any type of role Merryl Street can't play? She is one amazing actress.
The book is an inspiration and now I can't wait to see the movie.