8/5/2023 0 Comments Julia cooking![]() ![]() ![]() Why does it only ever feel like a chore to me when so many other people love it? Why do I derive no pleasure from it? Shouldn’t I desire to be a more capable cook? Shouldn’t I want that for myself? I’ve been curious, for quite some time, how it’s possible that I love food and flavor and eating so much, but am so disinterested in the timeless task of cooking. Why, then, would I think that I could successfully source, purchase, prepare, cook, and serve a meal of sweetbreads à la Julia in just a few weeks’ time? Well, frankly, I didn’t, but this wasn’t about that (she told herself willfully while not Googling what sweetbreads are despite knowing, deep down, that they are something gross). I was blissfully unaware there was a yeast shortage, and instead of sharpening my culinary skills, I rearranged every square inch of my house-excluding the kitchen, for which I hold a deep disinterest. ĭuring the height of the COVID-19 quarantine, when people were pouring their pain into making banana bread, I was not doing that. So, when I discovered that Julia more or less amounted to Julie & Julia without the Julie parts, I-as the bearer of a J-alliterative-name, a Tumblr Certificate of Authenticity for Blogging Between the Years of 20, and a theoretically functional kitchen-knew what I had to do. Because Julie & Julia is about two things that I love (food and blogging) and precisely one thing that I barely tolerate (cooking). What I am in possession of is a deep emotional bond to the 2009 film Julie & Julia starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as Julie Powell, a writer who decides to cook her way through Child’s seminal Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Or rather, I didn’t own a big pot at the time I decided to cook my way through HBO Max’s Julia Child biopic series, Julia, which airs its finale this week. “I have brought this all on myself, all because of some silly whim, and frankly, I’m terrified. ![]()
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