Saw 'Julie & Julia' last night and loved it. Based on
the books My Life
in France by Julia
Child and Julie & Julia by Julie Powell, this
juxtapositions the two stories. Julia is finding herself
through French cooking (then relatively unknown in US home
kitchens) and Julie is finding herself by cooking her way through
Julia's Mastering the Art of
French Cooking and then blogging about it. I've read
reviews that didn't like the way the two stories fit together but I
thought it worked well. I've also read a lot of negative
comments about Julie's "lack of seriousness" which I find
odd. How much more serious can you be about cooking than to
cook your way through 524 French recipes in one year? And is
it wrong to then be funny about it? Anyway I loved both books
and the movie - am I not discriminating enough?
BTW - we have 16 books by and about Julia on EYB.
