<p>I saw Julie and Julia tonight with 16 friends. We had cocktails first, then went to the film and enjoyed a potluck afterwards. We all loved both Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.</p>
<p>A highlight of my time in Cambridge was seeing the unmistakeable figure of Julia Child walking down the street toward me. I just gave her a big smile because I didn’t want to invade her privacy. She actually seemed to want to talk and I was without speech for probably the one and only time in my life.</p>
<p>Savenor’s was my butcher just because that’s where she shopped (and they were good). While I love to cook I have only rarely made anything of hers…the recipes may be demystified but I don’t want to spend the necessary time to make them.</p>
<p>Finally saw Julie and Juilia, I don’t know what it is with critics. They all panned Julie and loved Julia. I thought both parts were great. It really did a good job of capturing the book and I appreciated that they expanded the Julia sections that after all were already in the book. (A bunch of reviews implied that Norah Ephron came up with the idea, uh no, read the book!) Even my husband liked it. It inspired us to pull out both Irma Rombauer (where the City Chicken recipe in my edition is filed under C) and my two volume version of Mastering the Art. I’m thinking I should make something from it - maybe “boof” bourguignon?</p>
<p>I agree with you. Both parts were great, and so were both actresses. I did get nostalgic about postwar Paris, though we did not get to dine so grandly as Julia then. I remember the Mondays horse steaks all too well!</p>
<p>The “boof bourguignon” is more like a winter or fall kind of dish. Moi, I’m sticking to the summer soups.:)</p>
<p>I get nostalgic about Tours in 1973/74, I had the good fortune to live with a French family for a school year and Mme. Leveel was an excellent cook.</p>
<p>My friend Stephen used to do a hilarious Julia Child imitation when we were backpacking and cooking freeze dried food. Looking forward to seeing the movie tomorrow with D1!</p>