This is just the beginning, the essence of the whole dish is timing. When all the preparations are done, you need to add tomato paste, garlic, chopped bay leaves, thyme and other seasonings, then put the roasting pan on the stove, cook it on high heat until the soup boils, cover the roasting pan, put it in the 165°C Oven, bake for 3-4 hours.
Just during the 3-4 hour wait, during the long cooking process, we saw the difference between the two heroines.
In the film's footage, we see a smile on Julia Child's face almost all the time, while shopping, chopping, and cooking. I remember a scene about a cooking instruction video she recorded. The sturdy Julia Child was standing in the kitchen with a smile. When throwing the pot, some of the dishes fell out of the pot. She didn't feel embarrassed or asked to retake it immediately. Instead, he directly picked up the dishes on the stove back into the pot, and then calmly taught everyone to be calm and decisive when cooking. At that moment, I fell in love with this big woman who was so loud.
Cooking, for her, is not a high art, but easy entertainment, real life, pure hobby. The kind of love for life, appreciation for her husband, and interest in new things make her always happy from the bottom of her heart, and pass this happiness to the people around her, even in front of the TV. It is this kind of innocence and happiness that is scarce in the world that allows her to see beauty forever and gives her the ability to become better. Therefore, in the film, she is still moved by the beautiful view of Paris outside the window on the short big bed. She is excited for every fresh ingredient on the noisy street. Even in the face of the headmistress, she is still cheerful and witty. Diligently completed her studies and got a certificate. This happy nature makes her not afraid to face the hardships of life. When the book manuscript she had written for more than ten years was asked to be rewritten by the publisher, she remembered her original intention, accepted the publisher's suggestion and improved it for the better (thus, there is the "reprint of 49 times today". Master the Art of Cooking French Cuisine). When her life was facing not-so-good changes, when her lovely husband was investigated by the CIA, she just silently supported him, would not put pressure on him, would not complain to him, and firmly believed that her husband's talent would eventually be rewarded attention of the authorities. No matter what life presents to them, they support each other, snuggle up, eat well, and live happily, just as Julia Child's catchphrase in the film: "Whatever!" So, whatever it is, suffering doesn't will prevent them from being happy.
In Julie's world, happiness from the heart becomes as scarce as oxygen on the top of the Himalayas. Although she also has a good husband who loves her and a good girlfriend who supports her, but in the fast-paced New York, her pressure from work to get off work puts her on the verge of collapse from time to time. In the movie, she wipes her tears while listening to the phone in the cubicle at work, rolls her eyes at the noise of the elevator in the apartment above the pizza shop, gets a black line in her boss's office, and gets beaten up on a rainy night. The phone call to cancel the appointment caused her emotional breakdown, and she quarreled with her husband... Of course, she also had moments of excitement, for example, when she cooked a delicious dish, when she received a gift from fans, when her blog was hotly commented on, When the magazine has an invitation. It seems that she is moving towards the success recognized by today's society, but it also seems that, at one time, she was emotionally driven by utilitarian judgments, and the pure joy of cooking at the beginning was getting farther and farther away from her.
Especially in the second half of the film, we can barely find a smile on Julie's face, her brows are always frowning, and her cooking and blogging stress her no less than her daily punching-bag work. She woke up with a yawn and dark circles under her eyes, fearing that she would disappoint her fans. She hurried home and frantically cooked the butter chicken that gave her a headache. When she was tying the rope, she missed a moment, and the chicken filled with spices fell heavily to the ground, torn apart, just like her pure joy in cooking at the beginning. , so she was lying on the kitchen floor in big letters and crying.
At that moment, I seemed to see myself, the ordinary self who was unwilling to be ordinary, the self who hoped to accumulate slowly and live a good life but couldn't help but rush for quick success, and the humble self who was afraid that hard work would not be worthy of the dream. Just like Julie in the film, originally she just wanted to simply enjoy the joy and tranquility that cooking brought her, as well as the happy time of enjoying food with her husband, but later, the purpose of her cooking became "recognized", she Hope her blog gets more visits than her friends who thrive at work, she hopes she gets interviewed and invited, and she hopes cooking brings her more mundane success. Her cooking slowly became an empathy, not a pleasure. She was not enjoying cooking and happiness, but was nervous and emotional because of her utilitarian concerns, and even her husband was radiated to be very unhappy. Of course, Julie is lucky, maybe it is her real fragility that makes more netizens remember her and like her. Her hard work brought her success. Finally, her cooking blog took her out of a house she didn't like, a job she hated, and her tensions with her husband eased amid a flood of good news.
The reality is cruel, we all want to be happy Julia, but often become unhappy Julie.
The times we live in are so special. This is the worst era, because everything is changing so fast, the world is utilitarian and impatient, which makes every young or not young heart more and more eager for quick success; this is the best era, because of technology, because of information, because of The world we live in is utilitarian and impatient, and every ordinary person has more opportunities to choose the way of life they want, or to show themselves to the world. Now you don't have to spend $450 (or more) to go to a Le Cordon Bleu chef class, you can learn to cook all kinds of cooking by following videos from all over the world; "Confirm" put your own opinions and experiences on the Internet, and selectively provide the world with the information you want to make public.
Perhaps, when we see the difference between Julia and Julie, when we understand the advantages and disadvantages of real society, it is already the beginning of our becoming a better version of ourselves.
Therefore, we can choose not to be Julia or Julie, but to be ourselves, to face up to the desire in our hearts, and then to pursue it and realize it at our own comfortable pace. Happiness is like a puppy's tail, following our pace.
It's great to live in the age of movies!
Those insights and tingling sensations from the movies help us to recognize ourselves and to correct temporary deviations in the process of chasing our dreams. Lucky like you and me, we have movies, we have opportunities, and we have the future we want to reach.
It was pouring rain outside the window at the moment, like the pouring rain that Julie had been pouring the night she was waiting for the commentator to come and try the Beef Burgundy at her house.
My dear, I hope that no matter what kind of heavy rain we encounter in the future, it will not extinguish the initial persistence and the most real happiness in our hearts. Even if there is "rain dogs and cats" outside the window, we can still smile Say "Bon Apétit" to yourself and your loved ones in the mirror.
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