Tag Archives: Julia Child

I dream a dream..

7 Jan

Day dreaming is my passion. But I do not mention it anywhere in my resume, because I am afraid, people would think I am stupid or crazy. I day dream all the time. I have done it in my school classrooms, college classrooms, at work, at client meetings, even while watching a movie or taking a walk in the park.

If am watching a movie, I have already lost the plot because,  I have turned into the protagnist and doing my own stuff. Or if I am watching MasterChef, reality based, singing or dancing programmes, I am the contestant who has won the competition already and cashing in on the advantages of being a celebrity and the likes. It is so crazy that I refrain to discuss this even with my own husband out of the fear of being judged as vain. And mind you, my husband is my best friend, I tell him everything.

But this is completely out of my control. I can actually see myself standing there at the sidelines and watch my imagination take flight whilst watching a travel show on the Travel and Living Channel. The best is, when I read. These days I follow a food blog by  David leboitz (http://www.davidlebovitz.com) who is a chef, basically a baker who has written books on desserts, cakes, and about living a sweet life in Paris. It is a wonderful account and his style of writing has such a thrill about it that I see myself doing Julia Child at the local markets of Paris.

This addiction of day dreaming can be quite frustrating at times, because: (more…)

For the Food Lover in Me – Restaurant Review Project

5 Nov

I have watched the movie ‘Julie and Julia‘ in parts. I watched the last twenty minutes first when it was playing on the Satellite Channel. From that moment on I felt this movie was definitely worth a watch. The last twenty minutes had nothing but how Julie , played by Amy Adams( the protagonist and the mentee) is rewarded for the hard work that she had put in some project ( I had no clue about what the project was all about then). In parts, the movie also showed Julia Child, played by my favourite Meryl Streep ( the chef extraordinaire and the mentor) and how she struggled to get her cookery book published in the 1940s-50s. (more…)

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