Julie and Julia was a wonderful movie based on two true stories. Julie is a woman whose life seems to be going nowhere. One night, she and her husband come up with a challenge for her and she decides: “I’ll cook my way through the Julia Child cook book and write a blog about it. I’ll probably need a deadline otherwise it will be like everything else I do. Let’s face it, I never finish anything.” So she sets the goal: 536 recipes in 365 days and this blog is born.
The two women never actually meet, but their lives have parallels – they both take up cooking out of wanting purpose or direction, which they end up finding, and the great love and support of their husbands.
“Is there anything better than butter? Think it over, any time you taste something that’s delicious beyond imagining and you say ‘what’s in this?’ the answer is always going to be butter. The day there is a meteorite rushing toward Earth and we have thirty days to live, I am going to spend it eating butter. Here is my final word on the subject, you can never have too much butter.”
“You know what I love about cooking? I love that after a day when nothing is sure and when I say nothing, I mean nothing. You can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. That’s such a comfort.”