Cooking (Butternut Squash Risotto...coming soon),
I hadn't seen this movie since it was in theaters in summer 2009. Back then, I was living in a hovel of an apartment on the Upper East Side, waitressing, and wondering when life was going to get easier. Flash forward to 2011: I'm sitting in my cushy Charlotte apartment; a food blogger watching a movie about a food blogger.
If you'd told me way back when that I was going to care about food, I would have told you to quit smokin' crack. I hated food. (Well, really I just hated working in restaurants that served food, so there you go.) I saw eating as means to an end, not something to be savored and enjoyed. The fact that my main food group was Chinese takeout may have had something to do with this.
It was inspiring to watch Julie & Julia since (like me) both women sort of stumbled into this little thing called cooking. The movie reminded me of a few things:
1) I'm really, really glad I don't live in New York. (Julie's apt? Depressing.)
2) I'm really, really glad I'm a vegan. (Aspics=nauseating.)
3) Even Julia Child wasn't always "Julia Child" (We all start somewhere.)
The Preppy Vegan is officially two weeks old (sniff sniff), and the response has been overwhelmingly invigorating and positive. I've had moms from my school making my recipes, friends trading cow's milk for almond milk, and been invited to join a Charlotte Food Blogging group. (That's my panzanella creation in the pink bowl, natch.)
So...thank you to everyone who has stopped by this little ol'blog. I may not be Julia Child, but did you really want to be eating aspics?
Didn't think so.
Yay for two weeks! When my bf saw this movie, he said he saw some frightening similarities between me and Julie haha. I might be a little crazy but that's OK, it's about food and you can never go wrong there!
ReplyDeleteI have tried cooking the morningstar farms soysages before, the link kind, and they stuck to the pan. Badly. and my mom said they did the same thing for her. How do you cook them? I need to try that tofu scramble! I love breakfast foods, but most everything is meat! and you are cousins with Royar?!? crazy!
ReplyDelete@ Every Little Thing Have you read Julie Powell's actual book? It's good, but a little depressing. Read it over Christmas break.
ReplyDelete@ Jana I should have specified...I used the patties, not the links and they were delicious. I have another recipe coming up this week that was even BETTER than the tofu scramble...stay tuned.
ReplyDeleteWatching this movie and reading the book "Crush it" By Gary Vaynerchuk were what made me decide to take the leap and start my blog.
ReplyDelete@ Taylor It was very inspiring! Will have to see if they have Crush It at the library...(I'm cheap).
ReplyDeleteThat movie inspired me to finally get off my butt and blog. Seriously!!
ReplyDeleteI am actually waiting for the Butternut Squash Risotto, I would like to have one :)
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