until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends. Occasionally the diarist instinct overwhelms the generally tight structure and Powell goes on unrelated tangents, but her voice is endearing enough that readers will quickly forgive such lapses. Julia Child and Julie Powell both of whom wrote memoirs find their lives intertwined. The 2009 comedy-drama film 'Julie & Julia' tells the story of two real women with similar names and a shared passion for cooking.Julie Powell is a food blogger on a year-long mission to cook all 524 recipes from Julia Childs 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking,' documenting her kitchen mishaps and triumphs in an online journal (via Roger Ebert). Her writing is feisty and unrestrained, especially as she details killing lobsters, tackling marrowbones and cooking late into the night. And, Julie Powell (Amy Adams), who feels like her life is a flop, comes up with the half-baked idea of blogging about trying to make all 536 recipes in Julia. Powell never met Julia Child (who died last year), but the venerable chef's spirit is present throughout, and Powell imaginatively reconstructs episodes from Child's life in the 1940s. Julie & Julia mixes together the true stories of two women: While living in France, an unknown Julia Child (Meryl Streep) decides to add spice to her bland life by going to cooking school. She also includes some comments from her 'bleaders' (blog readers), who formed an enthusiastic support base. Some passages in the book are taken verbatim from the blog, but Powell expands on her experience and gives generous background about her personal life: her doting husband, wacky friends, evil co-workers. Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. A frustrated secretary in New York City, Powell embarked on 'the Julie/Julia project' to find a sense of direction, and both the cooking and the writing quickly became all-consuming. Powell became an Internet celebrity with her 2004 blog chronicling her yearlong odyssey of cooking every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

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