"julie powell" news and stories

We've been awaiting the French Chef flick "Julie & Julia" for some time now. And we're pleased to report we're heading out this afternoon to see a sneak preview, which we'll be sharing tidbits from with you via Twitter. Stay tuned!

Meryl can do the voice! Slashfood's sister site Moviefone has the trailer for the new Julia Child flick "Julie and Julia," and the two-time Academy Award winning Streep appears to be a delightful "French Chef."

We've been eagerly awaiting Nora Ephron's retelling of Child's story with that of blogger Julie Powell (she spent a year writing about her adventures cooking through "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"), and the trailer has us salivating for more. (We even spied a purchase made at the "Julie and Julia" sale held earlier this month hanging behind Julia!)

You'll have to wait until August to see the film. Till then, "Bon Appetit!"

[Via Moviefone]

Yup, it's true. Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep is going to play the famous chef in the film adaptation of Julie Powell's bestseller Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously for the paperback on the right).

The film is going to be written and directed by Nora Ephron, who sometimes gets unfairly put down by film fans. Not only is she a really good essayist, all of her films are enjoyable (haven't seen Bewitched...). I particularly liked You've Got Mail.

If you haven't read the book yet, it started as a blog by Powell, who decided to take Childs' book Mastering The Art Of French Cooking and makie every recipe in her small kitchen.

Yesterday's New York Times featured an article about food movies past, present and future. Of course, there's talk of the usual suspects like Tampopo and Big Night, but the gist of the article is that there are plenty more food movies to come, especially from American filmmakers. Of note are a remake of Mostly Martha, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, and an adaptation of Julie Powell's blog-based book Julie & Julia. The latter is to be written and directed by Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle, Bewitched) for Columbia Pictures. Anthony Bourdain even weighs in on Adam Sandler's performance in Spanglish.

For those of us who follow the food blogosphere, Julie Powell is a familiar name. Her recently published book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, is based on her own food blogging chronicles. She's in the Times' Magazine this week, writing about how her meals are changed now that she lives alone in a studio on the Upper East Side. Gone are dinners of pork chops in cream sauce, potatoes, meat. In their place, she makes simple things like a garlic soup with a poached egg, which she eats night after night, alone, until the large pot she made runs out.

Sounds a lot like my weeknight dinners.  

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