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Julie & Julia

Thursday, 7 May 2009 08:05 by kpotvin

Thanks to Washington Post blogger Kim O’Donnel who I met at a recent conference, I watched the trailer for the new movie, Julie & Julia. Opening in August, the movie stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as Julie Powell, who decides to cook her way through Julia Child’s cookbook and blog about it (leading to a book and now a movie). It’s the co-mingling of two true stories and I can't wait to see it. Years ago, when I was part of the Bertolli Olive Oil PR team at NYC-based Vorhaus & Company, I had the opportunity to share a meal with Julia, the Bertolli marketing team and our Vorhaus PR team. We were all in town for the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. It was a lovely dinner and Julia, sharing stories in her signature voice, couldn’t have been nicer. The thing about Julia Child was that she was more than a chef, author and TV personality – she was an entrepreneur. She had an idea (teach people to cook differently) and she pursued it with passion. She once said, “The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.” What's your passion?

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Tags:		washington post, kim o'donnel, julie & julia, julia child, julie powell, bertolli olive oil, food & wine classic
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