Julie and Julia

Greetings:

I like many others went to the theater to see Julie and Julia. I went with my two foodie friends, Alyson Stanfield (artbizcoach.com) and Elizabeth Yarnell (gloriouspotmeal) author of the popular cookbook, Glorious One Pot Meals. They are both into food, I personally just like to eat it! I don't know a lot about the history or even how to cook it all that well. For me the movie was cute (I know not what one would want to hear about a movie) and entertaining for a couple of hours.

Also, and this might not be a good thing to say in public, however I am not a big fan a Julia Child. I never understood what the attraction was. However seeing the movie did make me interested in knowing more about the "real" Julia. I found a great article about her life at Biography.com.

The movie Julie and Julia was inspired both by the story of Julia's life and the blog by Julie Powell, a bored office worker who decided to cook her way through Julia's first book, The Art of French Cooking. And of course blogged her way through it as well. You can read the blog that started it all at Julie and Julia.

Although not my favorite movie, it was worth watching and was inspiring. I actually went out and bought a bike because Julia inspired me to "Have no Fear!"

It also make me wonder how many cookbooks my grandmother had. I know she didn't have The Art of French Cooking but I couldn't help wondering what cookbooks she did have since I never noticed her using one (My grandmother lived with our family so I would have noticed at some point). I asked both my Aunt Linda and my sister and both confirmed what I thought, she didn't have any cookbooks. According to my Aunt she did have a recipe box that has long been lost that she kept recipes that were given to her or she clipped out of something. Oh she did have one cookbook, a cake cut-up book that illustrated how to cut cake into shapes like cats, dogs, cows, fun things like that. Each year we got to pick the cake shape we wanted for our birthdays. I can remember every cake she made me.

So I had to wonder how many cookbooks my mom had. She did have a couple, the one she wrote herself (she managed to get the family recipes copied down before my grandmother died so we do have those thank goodness), a church cookbook she helped create and contributed to and my grandmother's cake book.

So no The Art of French Cooking for my family. I actually don't even know if I have ever seen a copy of the book, although I am sure all the book stores will have copies displayed since the launch of the movie.

I would give the movie 3 spatula's - worth seeing - maybe wait until it comes on DVD.

Here's to taking action,

Rachelle