MOVIE: Julie and Julia

A movie about a blogger who decides to cook all of Julia Child's recipes from "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". The movie also provides views of Julia's life in 1949 Paris as she attends the Cordon Bleu school and 8 years of effort to translate various french recipes into English with the help of two French ladies from the Embassy where her husband works. Kinda light on many details, and skips most of Julia's TV shows, which I grew up on (small wonder) but still reasonably interesting and they had many foodie details, including why Aspic often falls apart (gotta cook it long and SLOW to get the gelatin to cook down without breaking down, which is why Julie's fails in the movie). Aspic is Meat Flavored Gelatin. Delicious. Used as a sauce. Good quality broth is practically aspic, which is one reason my soups taste like concentrated numminess. The wife and I enjoyed watching this on Sunday and I think we both bonded a bit over the couple's trials and travails. Sometimes it seems like we live above a pizza store.