new aspirations

Food styling. Obsessed.

Finally (well, it seems like I waited longer than the masses, considering I went on a big J. Child tangent several years ago... loved My Life in France and was later inspired by the Julie & Julia book and Julie Powell's blog) saw Julie and Julia on Wednesday.

Loved the food and an totally inspired to learn to bone a duck. The man actually got really sad though, sad that I couldn't enjoy food like I once did (I think his favorite food scene was Julie making the bruscetta at the beginning of the movie, or perhaps when Julie and Eric ate that chocolate cake!). This, in turn, made me sad! I guess I really started this blog to learn to make food that I can enjoy, that we can both enjoy together, and I've felt pretty satisfied with my food experiences lately. I was pretty discouraged to realize that he has been so affected and saddened by my food choices. Don't get me wrong! He's been extremely supportive of my endeavors, from finding me piles of meat in Argentina to eating several burgers a day and to taking a SF adventure to butchery class, but sometimes nothing can compare to a grilled cheese sandwich, beer, and pint of Haagan Daz peanut butter chocolate ice cream with the one you love. Ah well. I digress. It was, after all, a Nora Ephron movie, so don't expect the food to be seperated from the relationships!

All that to say, big props to Susan Spungen , the food stylist for Julie & Julia. Awesome. Need and intern?

Here are some images from the film to inspire.

French Onion Soup

Boeuf Bourguignon

movie anticipation

i have lots of little girl excitement for the julie/julia movie coming out later this year. i recently read julia child's my life in france and then julie & julia. i am so fascinated by french cooking... such an interesting combination of simple ingredients and recipes that read like science experiments! i actually highly recommend both books. my life in france is particularly fun with the new found discovery that julia child was a spy, and julie & julia will inspire any food lover, blogger, or slightly misguided lady in her late twenties. gosh, to think that she simply started cooking and blogging and now she's being immortalized in a meryl streep movie?!

check out her blog for hours of fun.

(she has a current blog as well, above is the link to her 365 days/536 recipes one)

and maybe eventually i will be inspired to make that aspic i've been talking about.