Julie & Julia

We just finished watching the movie Julie & Julia. The film contrasts the life of chef Julia Child {Meryl Streep} in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell {Amy Adams}, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook in 365 days. A challenge she described on her popular blog that would make her a published author.

In 2002, Julie Powell is a young writer with an unpleasant job. To do something she enjoys, she decides to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogs to motivate herself and document her progress. Woven into the story, is the story of Child's time in Paris throughout the 1950s, where she attends Le Cordon Bleu to learn French cooking and begins collaborating on a book about French cooking for American housewives. The plot highlights similarities in the challenges encountered by both of them. Eventually, Powell's blog is featured in a story published in The New York Times, after which her project begins to receive the attention of journalists, literary agents, publishers. The last scene shows Powell and her husband visiting Child's kitchen at the Smithsonian Institution and Child in the same kitchen receiving a first print of her cookbook and celebrating the event with her husband.

Based on two true stories, this movie was fabulous. Two different women, in two different time eras. Both getting the much support needed from their husbands, to become the best they can be. Definitely one to see.

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