Why, Hollywood, Oh Why??!!

[cinema_babe]

Julia Child led an interesting life.

She grew up wealthy and pampered, worked for the OSS, lived in Paris, pretty much single handedly created the genre of cooking shows. She taught post WWII cooks how to use fresh, and when possible local, ingredients (she touted the joy of using fresh, local food when Alice Waters was going to her Jr Prom.) She showed people that even the a Cordon Bleu trained chef can make major blunders in the kitchen and that it was okay to rinse the roast off and just keep cooking. She was all about using a little bit of cream or butter to get the mouth feel and taste of a special dish. She taught that you should only cook with wine you would drink.

Real butter, meat, and red wine. She died, still sharp as a tack, in her 90s.

Without Julia Child, there might never have been a Whole Foods, Cook's Illustrated magazine or Food Network.

She is a revered and esteemed, the godmother of all of us who try our hand at anything more complex than Kraft Mac and Cheese.

So why do I want to see her life story watered down and presented in tandem with the story of a whiny 20 (or 30?)something who can't find meaning in her life? Oh, that's right, I don't.

I thought the blog was cute when Julie Powell was writing it but good grief give me steak, not spam.

Comments

[ishitpinecones.livejournal.com]

I'd also rather see a film about just Julia, herself. That's why I haven't mustered up the 20 bucks to see this one yet. I'll wait till it comes out on DVD.

[silvester10528.livejournal.com]

My fondest memories of my father are sitting with him on a Sunday morning watching Julia while my (older) brothers and sister had to go to church with our mother.


Julia came across as more than a little liquored up in her later years... at least to me...

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

She was more than a little liquored up in the early years too. She liked to have a bit of wine while she cooked.