Have you seen the commercials? I'm talking about the upcoming movie Julie & Julia - it's the story of two women set 50 years apart...one is Julia Child who is featured during the years she and her husband lived in France and where she discovered the joys of French cooking. The other is a gal from NYC who was in a dead-end job and decided that in a year she would cook every single recipe from Julia Child's book Mastering the Art of French Cooking (a cookbook Julia Child wrote in 1961!). Aside from cooking over 500 (complicated) French recipes every day for a year this young cookie wrote a blog about her experience as she went along. It's hysterical.
I cannot wait for this movie.
For a couple of reasons:
1) I've read Julie's blog and I think she's brilliant. In fact, you might say I'm more than just a little tiny bit jealous of her. Her idea was brilliant and while her writing at first is merely average, as you move through each entry about the trials and tribulations of finding beef marrow and then extracting it from the bone - well, her writing gets decidedly better as does the results of her cooking. You can read it here: http://www.JuliePowell@blogspot.com. Click on the archive called the Julie/Julia Project and read back to front.
2) I'm in the process of reading Julia Child's biography of her time at the Cordon Bleu. She really was a bit of a whack job, but I find in her a kindred spirit. Like me, she married "later" in life. She was like 35 and I was like 46, but you know, really, today's 46 is like yesterday's 35. She and Paul had no kids. Ditto that with the one whom I adore. Also? When her husband took a job in Paris she says she went with him as excess baggage and frankly somedays that's how I feel about our move to PEI. In Paris she was at odds with what to do with herself. On the island, I am more than odd...er, I mean, at odds with how to spend my time.
I love both of these women.
I want to be like these women...talented, creative, get a book deal...
Now, I just need a really great idea, a publicist, an agent, the book rights and a movie deal.
In the meantime, I'm off to the kitchen to channel my inner-Julia and create a decadent dessert for the one whom I adore.
