08.17.09
Ah, Julia…
Butter. Yes, I think that was what did it… I totally love butter, which, alas, is quite evident in my feminine contours. Saw the new Meryl Streep movie Julie & Julia with my knitting buddies (did you catch that scene with a supposedly French woman knitting English style… sacre bleu!!) and now I’ve caught Julie Child fever.
I grew up during the Julia-Child-on-TV era, but wasn’t really into cooking at that time, so she didn’t have much impact on me back then. But now, I’m totally smitten. (Whether it’s with Julia herself or Meryl Streep’s portrayal of her, I’m not sure.)
According to the movie, Julia Child really loved butter – a sentiment I can totally relate to. And now, many years after her TV show debuted, I’m finally ready to try French cooking a la Julia, so after seeing the movie, I ordered her cookbooks Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volumes 1 & 2. Apparently, a lot of us are smitten, as there’s quite a wait to get these books right now, but my books are on their way.
Fear not, this is not going to convert from a knitting and yarn blog into a cooking blog, and I’m not about to embark on anything as ambitious as Julie in the movie — no cooking every Julia recipe in one year for me, thank you, I’ve got enough commitments already. I doubt I’ll be deboning any ducks anytime soon, but I think many of her recipes will seem much less daunting to me now than they did some years back.
As usual, I brought knitting with me to the movie theatre, but didn’t knit a stitch. I’m all about knitting when I watch TV at home, but somehow, have never been able to do it in movie theatres. Maybe it’s the poor lighting, or my fear of dropping perfectly good yarn on a sticky theatre floor, or having the yarn roll away from me in the dark… just seems so, well, risky.
I do hate to waste all that good knitting time, but really — when you consider how much movies cost these days, it’d be a shame to look away from the screen at the wrong time and miss the most crucial scene in the movie, right? Maybe if the movie was really boring, I might manage a few stitches, but Julie & Julia held my interest through-out – then again, it just might have been the butter.
Anticipating good meals to come,
Sue
Jim Adams said,
August 19, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Just was following up from our chat and checking out the site. Looks good to someone who does not a thing about yarn, but I do know about butter. Have a good day and say hi to your hubby.