Meet Lorna Sass, one of America's foremost experts on pressure cookers and whole grains. Think of her as the Ed Begley Jr. of the cookbook world -- a pioneer in the art of low-carbon cooking.
Yup, summer is officially over. Now we can get to what's really important -- trying to keep up with the dozen or so new Oscar-bait releases and overestimating James Cameron's Avatar.
Holding a mirror up to the nature of the American food scene is just too much for millions of us to stomach. We'd so much rather feed our hunger with images of Julia/Meryl's joy.
As everyone and their sister already knows, Inglourious Basterds scored a genuinely impressive $38 million over its debut weekend.
This is a note about what happens when a director in her sixties writes and directs a movie, about a young woman questing after the life once led by an older woman.
I have to be honest - I am jealous of Julie Powell. You know, the girl who wrote the blog and book about how she cooked her way through Julia Child's recipes, which became the basis for the film "Julie and Julia."
This past weekend, I was dumbfounded at the movie vision of a 1948 Paris resplendent with sumptuous food portrayed in Julie & Julia. That year much of Europe was suffering from starvation.
Like thousands of women who have a career in the food industry today, Julia Child influenced me. She taught me. I adored and admired her.
Unlike today's food bloggers, Julia Powell was writing about something interesting -- life.
As soon as Julia Child began talking about her husband, sadness misted her face, and no longer was I sitting across from an icon; rather, I was in the presence of a woman who'd lost the love of her life.
I was surprised that a movie about an American chef whose famous French cuisine was cooked in her Cambridge home, was one of the most moving movies I have ever seen.
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No matter what twists we see in Publishing 2.0, a love story running through Julie & Julia is that sometimes, after the solitary act of writing, the world writes you back.
It's pretty clear that Hollywood hates America. If they didn't, why would they blow it up in all their films? Well, someone has finally said it. Steph...
My Julia Child was Madhur Jaffrey, doyenne of Indian cooking in the West. Instead of a rather self-absorbed blogger, I was a clueless momma's boy immigrant, loose in middle America, barely knowing how to boil an egg.
'Julie and Julia,' Nora Ephron's cooking movie in which Meryl Streep plays Julia Child and Amy Adams plays food blogger Julie Powell, looks like one o...
If Julie Powell couldn't roll out a crepe or prepare an omelette, where did that leave me? A lowly author of children's books looking to follow a few of Julia Child's recipes in the name of research.
I was privileged eventually to meet Julia Child (see below) and the following legendary cooking writers who each connected with each other, and for a bit, with me.
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The ability to cook gives me options that non-cooks don't have, and what is autonomy about, if not having options?
Julia Child was my Betty Freidan, the wisecracking, groundbreaking grande dame responsible for my culinary awakening.
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Meryl Streep walked away from her role as über-chef Julia Child in director Nora Ephron's upcoming Julie & Julia with more than improved cooking skil...
