Director Nora Ephron Cooks Up a Tasty Summer Movie

Famous culinary arts school grad meets Hollywood

Cooking enthusiasts and fans of Julia Child's incomparable flair for French cuisine will want to head straight for the cinema on August 7th to see Julie & Julia, an homage to the world-famous American chef and a story about challenging oneself to find an inner passion for food.

The story of Julie & Julia starts with a memoir—two memoirs, actually. Julia Child wrote My Life in France with her grand-nephew, Alex Prud'homme, chronicling her years spent training at the renowned culinary arts school Le Cordon Bleu, from which she graduated in 1951. Julia Child's journey, which began at age 37, inspired modern-day secretary Julie Powell to set herself a challenge: cooking 524 recipes from Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 365 days.

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Powell documented her own journey on her Salon.com blog, The Julie/Julia Project, and it ultimately led to a book deal and a major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Meryl Streep as Child and Amy Adams as Powell.

There's little doubt that the soon-to-be-released movie will reacquaint the world with the cooking wisdom of Julia Child. It will also surely inspire a new generation of chefs to try their hand in the kitchen, go to culinary arts school, and—as the movie's synopsis proclaims--"discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible."

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Sources:

• "Julie & Julia (2009)." The Internet Movie Database.
• "Julie Powell, Author of Julie & Julia, Received an Honorary Diploma from Le Cordon Bleu at the Comédie Française in Paris." PRWeb, July 10, 2009.
• The Julie/Julia Project