Paul Child: What is it you REALLY like to do?
Julia Child: Eat! I cant even start to tell you how I'm so inspired by "Julie&Julia" movies, I watched it for 3 times. Frankly, the first and the second time I watch it, I fell asleep. Cause i started no from the beginning, that made me didn't understand anything, so i dozed off. But yesterday, I watched it from the beginning, and all i can say is I loveeeee this movie!
It is based on two true stories, two women in different places and different times.
In 1950 Julia Child moved to France because her husband was assigned there by the American Embassy. While trying to get some excitement in France, she realizes that French cooking is the best she’s tasted. She immediately enrolls in the Cordon Bleu School. There she struggled to graduate because no woman had ever graduated before her.
Long story short she became an amazing writer, her book is all about French cuisine, but written in an easy-to-understand style for American housewives.
The other character which is Julia Powell is set in the year 2000. She lives with her husband, and they moved to Queens, in an apartment above a pizza parlor. She works in a dead beat insurance company, as a customer service that takes peoples complaint day by day. Thats until she found joy at cooking, and she became so obssesed with the book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" by Julia Child. So she started to cook 524 recipes in 365 days, yap in one year!
As I mentioned in the beginning, Julie & Julia is a great movie. From the fashion to the food, this movie gave me a sense of what is was like for a strong American woman like Julia Child during the 1940s. The outfits that Julie Powell wore were perfect too, in the sense that you really didn't notice them. Fashion in those times was about the classic look (a look that I still
love) full of tailored skirt suits and gorgeous stacked high heels
The funny part is they have so much in common in their lives. A huge ambition, great passion in cooking, and a supportive husband. Both women receive much support from their husbands, you can see a warm and mutual understanding relationship. They worked like a great team, and support each other.
Oh how I so wish I could be like them. Living in a small apartment in France or New York City, with a supportive, warmth husband that always work alongside me. I will cook for him everyday, and he will love to eat all my dishes.
If you are a foodie, I highly recommend you this movie,this is one of the biggest food porn movies.. :)
"You are the butter to my bread, you are the breath to my life"
source:madame guillotine, fashiongalindc, witneyman
