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Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Sunday, August 09, 2009 - 9:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Saw it Sunday afternoon. It was terrific. Meryl had Julia down perfectly. The movie made me go shopping for groceries on the way home. LOL!

Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
Loved it!

Spelll
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09-16-2005

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spelll a private message Print Post    
It made me want to cook!...and I did!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Every review I've read cautions that one should eat 'prior' to seeing the film. In other words, don't go there hungry! LOL. It's next on my must-see list. :-)

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
Hopefully, will see it this weekend.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Saw it today and loved it! Meryl did a fabulous job w/portraying Julia's exuberance. :-)

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Friday, August 14, 2009 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
I wonder how many more copies of Julia's cookbook will be sold because of this movie?

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Friday, August 14, 2009 - 5:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
Loved this movie. Next day went to Barnes and Noble but they were totally sold out of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" by Julia Childs.

I want to have a dinner/movie party when the DVD comes out and cook one of Julia's recipes....I don't buy lots of DVD's but this is one I definetly will buy.

I really loved the movie...and I agree, Meryl did a wonderful job portraying Julia, I did not know that Julia had such a wonderful and loving husband.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, August 14, 2009 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I looked up Julia's pie crust recipe and we're trying it this weekend. I love to cook, but not so much bake. However, we've got berries and cherries coming out our ears, so the movie inspired me to make this the year I learned how to create crusts!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 5:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I'm no cook or baker, but my Mom was. Pie crusts are particularly difficult. Growing up, there was plenty of homemade pies -- with bottom and top crusts. I miss those pies. Fresh rhubarb pie. Yum.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
My DH has always made a good pie crust, so I'm pretty sure he can make Julia's no problem - me, I'll be the one who will have to be careful. However, as Julia says, "No FEAR!" :-)

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
Yesterday I spent 3 hours in the kitchen, on my feet, making Julia's "Beef Bourguignonne." Like in the movie except I didn't burn mine...lol

While it was fun to pretend to be Julia...that is one expensive recipe(along with the meat, I had to buy Brandy and red wine, fresh thyme, bacon, and pearl onions) and very time consuming. Easily a $60 recipe.

I probably will never make this again...for 1/4 the cost and 1/4 the prep time, and a fraction of the fat content, I can make a wonderful pot roast taste very similiar.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I already have brandy, red wine, bacon, and pearl onions in my house - and my dad just bought a half a cow... now I want to try it! :-)

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Teach...I wanted to check out the recipe after reading Bob's post. You can find it here:

Boeuf-Bourguignon-a-La-Julia-Child

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Thanks. :-) When it says "adapted" I'm always curious as to what they've changed - what differences do you see Boberg?

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
LOVED the movie, but when i went to check out the recipe, i thought no way!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Let me recommend Julia's book, "My Life in France." It is out in paperback and just so much fun!

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 11:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Youngest sis and I went this evening and we both really enjoyed the movie. I want to taste the Boef Bourguignon but don't have the patience or the $ to make it.

Tvfreak
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04-09-2008

Wednesday, September 09, 2009 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tvfreak a private message Print Post    
Haha I went shopping for food after the movie too! I have been meaning to read My Life in France as well - especially after seeing the movie. Great story.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 11:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
I loved the movie Julie and Julia. My Step Mom (Who drives me nuts, but is an amazing baker) makes the best pie crust. Her secrets and they are fool proof because I have done it is to take out a small amount of the water the recipe called for (1 tbsp) and substitute white vinegar in its place and the other is not and this is a big tip do not overwork the dough! You overwork the dough and you get tough dough. The vinegar is a scientific thing as it reacts to the other ingredients and makes the dough flaky. It is also better for the dough to be slightly sticky when you turn it out on the board than dry. That way when you flour the board and rolling pin you do not have dry dough. It also helps to rest the dough for an hour in the fridge after getting it into a ball. The fridge will make the dough slightly sticky also and that will help. Incidentally you will not taste the vinegar at all.

Lakecat
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10-01-2006

Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 7:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lakecat a private message Print Post    
Great movie but I would have liked Julie to have met Julia.That Jane Lynch sure is a busy actress.

Rissa
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03-19-2006

Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I loved Meryl but Amy's story left me cold. Nothing to do with her acting, just not much of a story. The one thing that bothered me was when I found out that Julia Child was asked to meet with Julie and said no more than once. She didn't approve of the blog and thought the whole thing was disrespectful and wanted no part of it. So it feels a bit *wrong* to me to put these two women together after her death when she can no longer protest. Silly I know but it bugged me while watching the movie. Like whoever it was that wrote a sequel to Gone with the Wind or Phantom of the Opera.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 9:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
i thought Julia didn't understand it and thought it frivolous, more than she didn't approve of it.

Rissa
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03-19-2006

Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 4:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
If my memory were even half up to snuff I could remember where I read the review I am referring to. LOL But Julia Child did read the entire blog, disaproved of the foul language, thought the process was disrespectful to her life's work and to french cooking and called the whole thing a "stunt". The comments she (Julia) made were short, but I got the impression that she thought Powell was looking for her 15 minutes and Child was not going to help her.

PS While trying to find the review I saw that Powell has written another book about an affair she had while publishing the first book. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession I am reading a biography on Julia Child right now but I didn't read Powell's first book so can't vouch for her writing either way.

Rissa
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03-19-2006

Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 5:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I should add that i think it's wonderfull that Powell had a dream of being an author and found a way to make it happen. Like i said, it's just a little corner of my mind that thinks it wasn't right to link the two women in this way after one of them is dead and can't protest when we know she did when alive.