The movie "Julie and Julia" is about cooking, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with cooking. Both generations of women have nothing to do at the beginning. Julia followed her husband to France and had nothing to do all day, so she went to study France. vegetable. Julie worked as a boring phone operator and was so unhappy that she couldn't be a writer, so she started a blog documenting her journey of learning to cook French from Julia's cookbook.
So you can see the difference, Julia is having nothing to do to discover her talent for cooking, and Julie is painting the gourd, the purpose is not cooking but writing. At the end of the movie, Julia said that it is normal to not like Julie. The purpose of the two people is completely different. Obviously, Julie wiped Julia's oil.
A focal point of the film is the recipe Julia created: the art of cooking your own French cuisine. I'm quite interested in cooking, so I have a good sense of whether a recipe is good or bad. A good recipe, first of all, must be clear and easy to understand, and then be able to make delicious dishes based on this recipe. Therefore, people who make recipes must 1. have experience in cooking, and 2. be willing to share the secrets in cooking. There are many recipes on the market, some of which are written by chefs, but most of the recipes are coping style, the steps are too simple, or the important points are not explained. Quite simply, these chefs are reluctant to share their own experiences and secrets.
Julia is not a chef. After learning the skills of a chef, she used her own vernacular to tell American women how to make seemingly mysterious French dishes and became very popular. It can be seen that Julia is very sincere, so her recipes are extra thick because of the many tips shared.
There are many things in cooking that you have to actually do to experience, and the recipe won't tell you. For example, in the movie Julia said that butter is cooking's friend forever, never get tired of butter. In fact, butter is very difficult to clean. At normal temperatures, butter is solid, it needs to be washed with very hot water, and it is difficult to clean up completely. Unless you use butter for cooking every day, as long as you put it down for 3 or 5 days, the odor left by the deterioration of the butter on the utensils is very difficult to resist.
The other is time. The time required for all big dishes is amazing, and only people who are very busy can complete them: for example, braised pork, to achieve the effect of melting in the mouth, it needs to be cooked on a slow fire for 2 hours! ! , did not include the previous preparations: water, fried sugar, and so on. The beef stew in red wine in the movie needs to be roasted for 2 and a half hours! ! These are not things that ordinary people can endure.
If a person about the same age as us says that he loves to cook a big meal by himself, remember to stay away from him, it is very likely that he is a rich and leisurely master, and he is not of the same class as us.
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