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Julia once stated a show with

"First take a leek..."

Gotta love her. IIRC she followed hubby to France for his business dealings and was bored to tears. She began to cook, undertaking to learn French cookery, then brought it to America.

I would love to see this movie!
 
"I would love to see this movie!"

Well, Toggles, go to it on Friday, like my friend Linda and me.

I'm buying the tickets, she's buying dinner. For mercy's sake, go.

This is based on Julia's memoir, My Life in France, and Julie Powell's book, Julie and Julia. Both of which are good reading.

Paul Child was 10 years older than Julia. They met in Ceylon during World War II. They were both working for the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.

Paul Child later worked for a division of the State Department. They were stationed in Paris, Marseilles, Bonn, (Plittersdorf, a suburb,) and Oslo.

Mastering The Art of French Cooking volume I, was published in 1961, and food has been better ever since.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Toggles:

The "take a leek" story was Arlene Francis on Home a daytime show for housewives that ran on NBC in the mid-1950s. She was demonstrating a recipe for vichyssoise, the food craze of the day. Ms. Francis, who had a much earthier sense of humour than she was usually allowed to display on the TV shows of her day, often told the story on herself in her later years, before her Alzheimer's ended her career.

I don't think I'm going to be seeing the new movie about Julia. I taught cooking for some years during the 1980s, and I had the privilege of meeting Mrs. Child very briefly during that time. I do not see the person I met when I look at the clips of Meryl Streep in the new film.
 
I met Julia once as well

When I was working for a catering company from 1990-1992, we catered an event in New Orleans at which Julia Child and Robert Mondavi were among the guests. During the cocktail party, when a tray of Cajun Boudin was being passed by servers, Julia commented "oh look! real food!" Later she was a passenger on a golf cart going from the home of the host to his warf for a boat ride, she asked the driver to pass by our grilling station set up outside when we were grilling quail that was a part of their appetizer course. She was curious to see how we were preparing the meal.
 
I liked the movie......

I've read both books, Julia Child's memoir, and Julie Powell's.

Nora Ephron did a good job writing and directing. Got home from it about a half hour ago. Linn liked it a great deal, too.

As one reviewer said, it could have used a bit more Julia, but it was still well worth seeing. I wish they had used more of her sister, Dorothy "Dort," as played by the adorable Jane Lynch, but oh well.

I'm going to get it when it's out on dvd.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Great movie. Very entertaining. Streep shows her usual acting genius so that about 3 minutes into the film, you forget it's Meryl Steep and feel like you are watching Julia Child. Amy Adams was delightful in her role as well.
 
That is interesting! I never knew she was from California until the movie! I didn't even know until relatively recent years that she wasn't really French! LOL The movie made her a real person for me, and that was part of the fun.

Matinee fans take note: you'll want to check your theater sites and etc. Yesterday for the first time I encountered a theater that cuts off matinee pricing at 4, rather than the 6 I am generally accustomed to. So I paid full price in a nice enough but old school type theater, but in this case it was more than well worth it!
 
Scott:

I knew about her California origins years ago, but it always seemed a bit unreal to me, because she was so thoroughly New England in her speech and manner. I have to think she was one of those people born out of place, who eventually found where she belonged, so to speak.

Oddly enough, she did retire to California, in a Santa Barbara assisted living centre. So it must have retained some attraction for her.
 
Her mother,

Caro(lyn) Weston McWilliams (died before WWII, complications of high blood pressure) was born and raised in Massachusetts, so that's where Julia got it.

The woman with Big John McWilliams was his second wife.

Oh, and according to Laura Shapiro, a culinary historian, Julia's attitudes towards gender roles and all that softened with time. In the 1980s, Julia was appalled by the horror that is AIDS, and spoke as an advocate. It's in Shapiro's book, called Julia Child.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
I got to see this movie last night, and it was FANTASTIC!!! Meryl Streep nailed Julia to a T and you actually thought it was the real Julia on the screen. I did get to go to DC this summer and saw her kitchen at the Smithsonian, it was an experience I wont soon forget.
 
Just got home from the movie. Loved it. The reviews were mixed in all the NY area papers favoring Streep/Tucci and less positive on Amy Adams role. But I thought the whole thing delightful. Go see it.
 
My wife and I both loved the movie, but be warned -- it is major food p0rn and will make you quite hungry, so plan accordingly.

After seeing it, I'm seriously considering making that stuffed duck in pastry featured in the movie as what could be the most difficult recipe.

My mom and my brother have had a copy of her first cookbook forever but I must admit that I just now got copies of the original and volume 2. I was totally sucked into reading it, so I'll probably treat it more like a novel at first than a cookbook, go get a feel for the whole work.
 

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