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First Stills From the 'Julie & Julia' Movie [Photographs]
Sony Pictures released new stills from Julie & Julia, set to be released August 2009. The film, directed and written by Nora Ephron, is an adaption of the Julie and Julia, the blog-turned book by...
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Get a Job: Undercover Airport Restaurant Worker
We came across this weird job listing: working as an undercover spy in a restaurant at LaGuardia Airport. Get underpaid to do two jobs at once! They don't give a lot of information — who are you...
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What's Wrong With Julie & Julia
We've had a couple of days to digest the trailer for Julie & Julia, the movie based on the book based on the blog based on Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and we've decided that...
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The Redesign of the Julie & Julia Book Cover
View larger Julie & Julia — and here we're talking about the book (buy at Amazon) — has gone from a classy design to, in its new tie-in form, basically a poster for the movie. In fact, the...
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Julia Child Considered The Julie/Julia Project 'a Stunt'
Publisher's Weekly spoke to Judith Jones, Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf, and Julia Child's editor and confidante, who shared her recollection of Child's feelings on Julie Powell's...
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TMZ Compares Susan Boyle to Julia Child
Without epic celebrity deaths to cover, TMZ is back to its regular celebrity grind (fisticuffs, nudity, DWIs, what have you), but when they post a "this person looks like that person" — saying that...
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The Comprehensive Julia Child Bibliography [books!]
I remember Julia Child like an old, tipsy, happy relative who cooked gourmet French meals laden with enough butter to kill a small donkey. She was my Saturday mornings. Watching her now is like...
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Julie & Julia's Real Star: Mastering The Art of French Cooking
Photo via iloveupstate on Flickr The conversation surrounding the release of Julie & Julia has fluttered around plenty of topics: this is a movie about old media versus new; this is a movie about...
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Julie & Julia Review Wrapup [metacriticsm]
Well, the reviews are in: The general consensus, as expected: Meryl Streep is great, the Julia Child half is great, the Julie Powell half: not so much. Overall, it's not tracking well: As of this...
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Newsweek Profiles Sandra Lee, Calls Her "The Anti-Julia"
Newsweek, keyed into the Julia Child buzz, runs a pretty astounding profile of Sandra Lee, calling her "The Anti-Julia." "She was a pioneer with the first television cooking show and I'm honored that...
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Julia Child's Cookbooks, Bestsellers Again
Julia & Julia may have gotten trounced by G.I. Joe almost three to one at the box office, but one side effect of the film and its media frenzy is a massive renewed interest in cookbooks by Julia...
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Julia Child Cooks Up a Batch of Primordial Soup [video]
Here's a charming video of Julia Child cooking up a batch of primordial soup that played in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's "Life in The Universe" gallery from 1976 until the gallery...
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The Eat Me Daily Fall 2009 Non-Cookbook Preview
While fall truly belongs to the cookbooks, there's still a large selection on deck for the food lovers who are less than kitchen inclined. Along with anthologies from The New York Times (Eat, Memory)...
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Julia Child on Late Night with David Letterman (1987)
Here's a video of a cooking segment with Julia Child on Late Night with David Letterman from 1987. When the electric burner doesn't work, she improvises and instead makes beef tartare. And then she...
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Out Now: Julie & Julia on DVD and Blu-ray; Also The Way To Cook on DVD
Julie & Julia was released today on DVD ($9.99 at Amazon) and Blu-ray ($25.99 at Amazon). Please to note! The standard DVD skimps on the features, only including a commentary track and a...
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