Last night after unwrapping Christmas presents and playing the 24 Edition of Clue (which was awesome), I watched the movie Julie & Julia, with my parents. The movie chronicles the journey of blogger Julie Powers and she works to cook her way through Julia Child’s book Mastering th Art of French Cooking.
Because the movie is about a blogger and about food, I think it naturally gets extra points. But… It’s a good fun movie.
Of course, I had heard about Julia Child before. I was familiar with who she was but never really knew her back story. A few times, I had been to the exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum of American History where they have Julia’s kitchen.
Meryl Streep does an amazing job of capturing her essence, her look and her voice. It’s pretty outsanding
I also didn’t really understand to the extent that Julia played a role in bringing the technique of French cooking over to America and making it accessible to the home chef.
I just bought Mastering the Art of French Cooking on Amazon. It was only like $20. If you watch any Food tv, you always hear about the importance of classic French technique and the influence that it’s had on American cooking. I’m excited to learn and better understand the culinary side of the movie.
If you’re as new to Julia as I am or are looking for a fun movie, I’d highly recommend Julie & Julia.
Have you seen it? What’d you think?
#1 by jlleblanc on December 26th, 2009
I saw it yesterday as well and enjoyed it. I'm not a huge fan of “based on a true story” movies, but this one went pretty well. And Meryl Steep did make a *very* convincing Julia!