Julie, Julia, and Me

I have had a fascination with Julia Child for quite some time. I bought one of her biographies (Appetite for Life) within a month of publication in 1999 and read it cover to cover, although it was not particularly well written.

I remember watching her show during the original broadcast years.

I think we had (have) a JC cookbook when I was younger, though I cannot remember ever looking through it.

And of course there is the Dan Ackroyd parody.

I also recall being truly surprised to learn she and her husband Paul had worked for the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) after World War II. Who would ever suspect her of espionage?

I recently finished "Julie and Julia", the story of a young New York woman who attempts to make all of the recipes in JC's first cookbook in 1 year - and blogs about it. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I recently purchased a used copy of "The Art of French Cooking", the very same cookbook from the story.

I borrowed a bunch of the old TV series episodes from the library and watched a few including the lobster episode, the omelet episode, and the very first episode.

And now I can't wait for the movie based on the book, with Meryl Streep as Julia, opening August 7th.

Check out the trailer at the movie web site, www.JulieAndJulia.com.

Beachy

Took some time out today to download photos from my phone, organize them, and start uploading to Flickr. Started with a few from a spur of the moment trip to Plum Island beach last month on an unseasonably warm weekend.



Love this photo of Sam giving me a look while Henry and Joni are playing in the surf.



Shoes off, time to play in the sand.



You try to get kids to hold still for a photo at the beach. . .

We parked right next to the beach in a parking lot that probably just went up to $20 this month. It cost us $1 on this day in May.