Dancing Spoon

Cooking with Photoshop

Beyond Above &

by J. Michael Wheeler
Boot Up the Oven
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m both a foodie and a bit of a geek. Cooking with Photoshop...I can virtually smell it now! Enjoy.

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.

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Julie & Julia: the Movie

On Film Cooking

by J. Michael Wheeler
What's for Dinner?
Julia Child has influenced so many of us: her recipes and TV shows were our first introduction to cooking and to French cooking (not the least of which was how to be brave in the kitchen). We would try this recipe and then cook that one. We could pretty much count the number of Childs' recipes we'd attempted. But it was certainly nowhere near all 524 of them.

Julie Powell did just that and wrote about it: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. And now Director Nora Ephron combines Julie Powell's book on her quest to "be like Julia" and Child's own memoir of her years in France, My Life in France, in a new film (opening August 7, 2009) starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as Julie Powell.

Streep practically channels Julia Child as you can see in this trailer from the film. The cast also includes Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, and Linda Emond. Watch the trailer to the film, Julie & Julia.

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My Life in France
by Julia Child
Julie Child's memoir of her first embrace of France and cooking. Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef. 

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
by Julie Powell
Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto. The film is written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia.

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