Moving day!

I’m moving my blog over to brucedumes.me. See you there! 😉

How the Julie/Julia project got it wrong

Like a lot of people, I went to see Julie & Julia last weekend.  Of course Meryl Streep was incredible (why’d she ever change her name from Mary anyway?) and overall the movie was a lot of fun.  I was curious to find out exactly what Julia Child had said about Julie and her project.  In the movie, it was reported that Julia said she “wasn’t serious” or something.

Publisher’s Weekly spoke to Judith Jones, Senior Editor and Vice President at Alfred A. Knopf, and Julia Child’s editor and confidante, who shared her recollection of Child’s feelings on Julie Powell’s blog: