I visited my mother on New
Year’s Day and we had a wonderful conversation. We talked about all kinds of
things especially the events of last year and how our lives have changed. At
some point our conversation turned to movies. And she showed me her “extensive”
collection of DVDs (all 10 of them) and she offered me some to take home. I
picked “The Music Man” and “Julie and Julia” – a movie I haven’t seen in a
while.
I’d forgotten how much I loved
that movie. It’s about a wannabe author, Julie, who works for an insurance
company as a customer service rep. Some of her school friends have high powered
jobs and look down on her for her job and her failed attempt to write a novel.
Complaining to her husband about this, he suggests she start a blog about her
favorite hobby – cooking.
Inspired by her admiration for
Julia Child, she decides to cook her way Julia’s cookbook “The Art of French
Cooking” and writer about the experience. The movie follows Julie’s life as she
writes her blog as Julia Child’s life as she attends the Cordon Bleu in France
Although Julie’s replication of
Julia’s recipes is always successful, her blog takes off. Julie’s writing earns
her many fans, except the one fan she wants the most – Julia Childs. She even
loses her husband’s admiration briefly. In the end, no one and nothing was
harmed in the making of theism movie, except maybe the lobsters. This is really a delightful movie about
writing – oh, and cooking too. And if you are wondering if I’ll be cooking my way through “The Art of
French Cooking.” the answer is “not on
your life.” I don’t appreciate many of the recipes as much as Julie.
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