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Dear Julia, Happy Birthday! #100, or, Why I Loved You

August 15, 2012 by Cynthia Bertelsen

Dear Julia, Happy 100th birthday! Today lots of famous food writers will write or post reams of flattering words about you. I know, I’ve already seen them, the New York Times leading the charge with three features about you, one by your friend Jacques Pépin. Like Jacques, many others will point out, once again, that you almost singlehandedly transformed the sorry excuse for food in the 1960s United States into the bounty and abundance that we see today in nearly […]

Categories: Chefs, Cookbooks, Cooking, France, French Cooking • Tags: Birthday, France, French cuisine, Jacques Pépin, Julia Child, Julie Powell, Mastering the Art of French Cooking

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Julie & Julia —

August 8, 2009 by Cynthia Bertelsen

A kitchen, a bottle of wine, and a duck recipe. Easy, right? With the movie, “Julie & Julia,” now out,  media commentators and critics find new fodder for chewing. One of the better perusals comes from The Boston Globe, written by Devra First and Wesley Morris. A video helps brings home the impact of cooking from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. After deboning a duck, can one be empowered? Probably. And for another tidbit of all things […]

Categories: Films, Food writing, French Cooking • Tags: Cooks, Films, French Cooking, Julia Child, Julie & Julia, Julie Powell, Mastering the Art of French Cooking

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Julia Child’s Benedictine-Infused Soul

August 12, 2008 by Cynthia Bertelsen

(Julia Child died four years ago tomorrow, on August 13, 2004. “Julie & Julia,” a film about “The Julia Project,” one of the first food blogs ever, is due out in 2009.) An upcoming movie, “Julie & Julia,” stars a be-wigged Meryl Streep as Julia and Amy Adams as  depressed and bored NYC secretarial temp Julie Powell. The celluloid promises to be a real trip, hopefully delicious, but likely not. When I read Julie Powell’s Julie & Julia: 365 Days, […]

Categories: Food writing, French Cooking • Tags: Benedictines, Cooks, Food, Julia Child, Julie & Julia, Julie Powell

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