I had a chance to catch an advance screening of Columbia Picture’s new film, Julie & Julia and, quite frankly, I’m speechless.  It’s a movie that just resonated with this gal, that being one person finding their voice through cooking. 

I remember that often I would catch Julia Child’s show on PBS growing up and would watch fascinated as she would take ordinary ingredients and bring them to life in something absolutely divine.  Julia Child was often paradied but there was no denying the contribution that she made to cooking.  I often would look at her cookbook and go “Who are you kidding, Lys – YOU can’t do that”.  And, quite frankly, if you heard my ex’s whining, I was a horrible cook and had no idea what to do in the kitchen.  However, after much practice and welding of my Global knife, like Julia, I have “no fear.”   Well - except for when it comes to cooking a lobster – I’ll pull a Barefoot Contessa and buy it pre-cooked, thankyouverymuch.  I even picked up a copy of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” this weekend with the intent of trying it – not just to have it collect dust on my new cookbook shelf.

Anyhow, back to the movie – as I told someone at the theater, Meryl Streep could act out the dictionary and I, much like the rest of the audience, would sit transfixed.  She is THAT good of an actress.  I felt that the audience was given a glimpse into what made Julia Child – JULIA CHILD.  Stanley Tucci, a devout foodie himself, played the role of Paul Child perfectly.  Not having read Julie Powell’s book, I found myself agreeing with the storyline of working a day job and coming home to cook to get away from it all.  I remember the first comment I ever got and the joy I felt when I published something that meant so much to me.  I also understood how sometimes blogging gets in the way of the day to day when you also view it as a “must do” rather than “want to do” (hence while I’ll NEVER sign up for Blog365 again).  All in all, I thought this film was very well made and I will see it again (and get the DVD).  

Apparently Cooking in Stilettos was fashionable back then.  Who else can rock a Chanel Cap Toe pump while checking her Le Creuset – clearly a movie after my own heart.

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