If you read my rant on caesar salad, you may be wondering why I'm carrying on about food, while the hot topic on cable and in town halls is health care reform. It's probably because I saw Julie and Julia last weekend. This is a pleasant film made memorable by the remarkable Meryl Streep, whose buoyant portrayal of Julia Child adds another jewel to an already lustrous crown. If there was a cinematic textbook on how to have fun while acting, this is it.
Meryl Streep recreating Julia Child is certainly feast enough, but if you want more, I recommend Julie & Julia: Streep, Ephron and the Joy of Cooking, Mary Pols' review of the movie in the current (August 17) issue of Time Magazine. It is beautifully written and conveys the core of the parallel stories told in Julie and Julia. It also captures perfectly the defining difference between these two women: "One, Julie Powell (Amy Adams), had a bright idea, while the other, Julia Child....had a calling." The movie, most especially Streep, is a delicious treat, and Pols' review of it is, as the Brits might say, spot on.
About Me
- cw crunch
- Long ago and far away, when I was a kid, the lettuce used in all sandwiches that came with lettuce was iceberg. Good, plain, crunchy iceberg. When California cuisine became the stylish way to eat, iceberg got a bad rap. Now, in almost every eatery, the same sandwiches that used to be made with iceberg are made with redleaf. Redleaf has its place, perhaps as a variant in a mixed green salad. On the traditional American sandwich, it is just plain wrong. Why? No crunch. I like iceberg. I like crunch. I like chewing on that crunch. CRUNCHTHIS is about anything and everything that is adding crunch to my life -- all the stuff that my mind is currently chewing on. Welcome. And bon appetit.
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