The book Mastering Art of French Cooking co-authored by Julia Child has, after forty years, once again hit the list of bestselling cookbooks. This has come about because of the film Julie and Julia, starring Meryl Streep and partly based on her own memoir entitled My Life in France.

Mastering Art French Cooking took Child and her coauthors over eight years to put together and it was meant to adapt French cooking to the American lifestyle and the ingredients and measurements that can be found here. It also offers different suggestions to improve one same dish and how to accompany it with complementary sides.

Julie and Julia, the movie, tells two parallel stories that take place in different times. One is that of Julia Child and how she started to cook seriously when she was over 40 in Paris and later became not only a best-selling author but also a TV celebrity. The other story is that of Julie, a born writer who feels she has never completed any meaningful project in her life and who, right before turning 30 decides to take on the challenge of cooking all of the recipes in Julia Child’s cookbook in one year, and blog about it.

The blog eventually becomes a success and is later turned into a book which became the movie itself, and which has been the spark that reignited the sales of this unique cookbook, that has numerous illustrations and detailed instructions that make an interesting read and also a surefire success at the dinner table if you are having people over and want to impress them with a savory French dish.

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