Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Something to watch tonight: Thursday 10 August

Julie & Julia (Ephron, 2009) is streaming on Prime Video

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Dan Slevin
Aug 10, 2023
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Back in the very early days of ‘blogging’, Julie Powell took on the enormous challenge of cooking – and writing about – every recipe in Julia Childs’ famous cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Those blogs were turned into a book and then, in 2009, the book was turned into a successful film.

In October 2009, I wrote this about it:

Nora Ephron’s n…

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