Julie and Julia

This film has always intrigued me, always wanted to watch it. So I did. Being an avid watcher of Food Network and other food shows I did.

Here's the scoop.
Julie Powell (Amy Adams, Doubt, Sunshine Cleaning, Enchanted) is a employee at a 9/11 hotline who has an unpublished novel at her fingertips, and with her interest in making raspberry cream pies from Julia Child's cookbook and with the help of her encouraging husband they decide to start a blog by going through Julia Child's book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. They named the blog The Julie/Julia Project. She decides to go through 524 recipes in one year or 365 days. Sounds like a feat, it was. While Julie goes through the recipes during the hustle and bustle of moving to Queens, NY it shows a parallel to Julia Child's life. The one we never knew about. The struggles that Julia (Meryl Streep) had to get into Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, or the constant revisions of the book that most of this film is based on. In Julie's cooking, she becomes liberated by her work life and sees the "Julia" in her.

I don't know but for me this was an interesting movie. I just chose to watch it because I was interested in the cooking interest. I love to bake and cook. I didn't grow up watching Julia Child, yet I am so intrigued by her. She is known to be the one "who taught America how to cook," I know of her, but never watched her cooking shows. We have Food Network for that now. And it's because of her that we have that. Julia was a inspiration to the chefs who are now on that network.

Now, I don't want to forget about Julie. She also inspired me. With her blog. It showed her receiving gifts and ingredients from her readers, also comments. So because of Julie Powell, I am wanting to have my blog have that kind of exposure and legitimacy. I am researching and re-vamping it over the next couple of months to make it better. Thanks for the push to do so!

This film has also made me want to blog more, and better and I am dying to cook a full meal. That Beef Bourguignon recipe sounds amazing! :)

It is also a book that you can read too!