Julie & Julia: my year of cooking dangerously. Julie Powell. 2009.

Nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child’s legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves livers and aspic, but a new life - lived with gusto..................