Yep, that's Meryl Streep playing the cookbook-writing, French Chef-hosting, larger-than-life character who was Julia Child. Streep has the main role in the upcoming movie Julia & Julia, directed by Nora Ephron. The film is in post-production but the studio just released the first photos, including the one above.Details about the movie are still scarce, but the second Julia in the title apparently refers to a blogger named Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams) who tries to cook all 524 recipes i
For every person who is content to put popcorn in the microwave, there is another type of person who wonders what would happen if you put that popcorn in a specially built oven capable of heating to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It is this person for whom the blog Cooking Issues exists.Forget the boring name. Cooking Issues is on the cutting edge of food invention. The blog is run by The French Culinary Institute with a special focus on "tech and stuff." It often highlights processes that are five o
Has it really been five years since Julia Child's death? Her cookbooks continue to connect us to her but they only a capture a piece of her genius. For a more complete picture, we need the Julia Child of television. Her show The French Chef was an inspiration for dozens of Food Network personalities.Unfortunately it isn't online (yet!) but one of her other television series is -- Cooking with Master Chefs, the 1994 show that helped shine the spotlight on 16 chefs including Lidia Bastianich and E
Tomorrow -- Friday, May 29 -- is National Coq au Vin Day! The Food Lover's Companion describes this classic French dish as "pieces of chicken, mushroom, onions, bacon or salt pork, and various herbs cooked together with red wine."
One of the finest versions of Coq au Vin (pronounced coke-oh-vahn) that I've tasted in Kansas City is served at Cafe Provence in Prairie Village. But when the menu was last tweaked, by chef-owner Patrick Quillec and his brother Daniel, the noted chicken dish
​Thanks to the very sweet comedy, Julie & Julia, the late Julia Child is finally at the top of the bestseller list, 48 years after Mastering the Art of French Cooking was first published. Have you seen the film yet? It's very endearing and Meryl Streep is amazing as the indominable Mrs. Child. The biggest laugh during the film, interestingly enough, was when the characters played by Amy Adams and Chris Messina watched this brilliant SNL sketch from 1978. It's amazing, but Dan Akroyd w
