In 1949, Julia Child and her diplomat husband moved to Paris. Looking for something to do, she enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, and this decision ultimately led to her groundbreaking book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Fifty years later, we meet Julie Powell, who has a dull job in New York. Wanting to add some color to her life, she decides to cook all 524 recipes in Child’s book within a year and write about it on her blog.