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Before Ina, before Rachael, before Emeril, there
was Julia, the woman who forever changed the way
America cooks. Now comes Julie & Julia, the new
film starring Meryl Streep as Child and Amy Adams
as secretary-turned-food blogger Julie Powell. The
film, set in post-9/11 New York and post-WW II Paris,
is a delicious exploration of the ways people can
feed one another physically and, more importantly,
emotionally.
Written and directed by Nora Ephron (Sleepless in
Seattle, You’ve Got Mail), Julie & Julia interweaves the
stories adapted from two best-selling memoirs: Julie
Powell’s Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny
Apartment Kitchen (reissued in paperback with the
subtitle My Year of Cooking Dangerously) and My Life
in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.
“What unites these two stories is passion,” says
producer Laurence Mark (Dreamgirls). “Julie Powell
and Julia Child both discovered a passion – in each
case, a passion for food – that got them through
tough or uncertain times.”
“When you talk about passion, Julia Child didn’t
just have it for her husband or cooking. She had a
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passion for living. Real, true joie de vivre,” says Streep,
who portrays the 6-foot-2, button-down shirt and
denim-apron-wearing icon’s unbridled joy for life
with her typical panache. “She loved being alive, and
that’s inspirational in and of itself.”
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Powell discovered her passion in 2002 when, ap-
proaching 30 and stifled by a dead-end cubicle job, MERyL StREEP EMBODIES ICOnIC COOkBOOk autHOR
she hit on a remarkably unconventional way to break
anD tELEvISIOn CHEf JuLIa CHILD In nORa EPHROn’S
out of her rut: She would spend a year cooking every
recipe – all 524 of them – in Julia Child’s Mastering the
HIgHLy antICIPatED fILM Julie & Julia.
Art of French Cooking and, without realizing she’d be-
come a digital pioneer, blog every day about it. The
by robert firpo-cappiello
12 RAGE monthly | August 2009
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