Synopsis 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 shes grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as described in Julia Childs legendary cookbook, M Synopsis 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 shes 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 Julies 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. View Mastering the Art of French Cooking here.