COOKING UP A TASTY TREAT.Byline: DAVID EDWARDS JULIE & JULIA 123mins .... Two of the finest actresses of their generation team up for a wholesome chick flick about the life of Julia Child, the original celebrity chef. Like a winter stew, it's a satisfying and warming dish made all the tastier by stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, who last shared the same screen in Doubt. Like a proto Delia Smith, Child became a kitchen celebrity in the 1960s with the publication of her book, Mastering The Art Of French Cooking Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French cookbook written by the American Julia Child and the Frenchwomen Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle for the American market and published by Knopf in 1961 (Volume 1) and 1970 (Volume 2). , which opened up the world of haute cuisine to housewives all across America. The film looks at the years before her fame, showing how she enrolled in cookery classes while living in France with her adoring diplomat husband (Stanley Tucci). Adams, meanwhile, appears in an interweaving storyline as New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of secretary Julie Powell who becomes an online sensation when she blogs her attempts to make the book's 524 recipes in just one year. While both actresses deserve credit, it's Streep who dominates and deserves to be put in contention for her third Oscar. Deftly playing the dotty masterchef - complete with a brilliantly squawking laugh - it's an amusing but respectful imitation. One to savour. THE REEL LOWDOWN low·down n. Slang The whole truth: gave us the lowdown on what happened at the party. lowdown low (inf) n he gave me the lowdown on it → IF YOU LIKED... 84 Charing Cross Road Charing Cross Road is a London street which runs north from Trafalgar Square to St Giles' Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street) and then becomes Tottenham Court Road. It is so called because it leads from Charing Cross. , The Hours... YOU'LL LIKE THIS. CAPTION(S): CHILD STAR: Streep (right) and Amy Adams with Chris Messina |
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