Julia Child

Bon Appetit! 100 Years of Julia Child

TV post by Kelsey Wallace on August 15, 2012 - 12:49pm; tagged feminist icons, food, Julia Child.

Today would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday. Though the legendary cook, author, and pop culture personality died in 2004, her delicious (feminist!) legacy lives on.

Julia Child in her kitchen in 1970

Julia Child in her kitchen in 1970

Happy Birthday! Photo by Arnold Newman/Getty Images

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Women, Film, and Food

Movies post by Ink-Stained Amazon on September 7, 2009 - 1:17pm; tagged Babette's Feast, Cooking, Farmer's Markets, food, Gurinder Chadha, Julia Child, Like Water for Chocolate, Lisa Jervis, Pieces of April, Soul Food, women in film.

Having spent the weekend filling my freezer with late summer goodness from my local farmer's market and finding out about Lisa Jervis’s new book Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating, the Grrrl on Film has nourishment on her mind.

And I’m not the only one, the recent release of Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia has placed Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking back on best seller lists. And last weekend marked the kickoff of Canning Across America – an event organized by a nationwide ad hoc collective of cooks, gardeners and food lovers committed to promoting safe food preservation and the joys of community building through food with how-to classes, demos and home canning parties in cities around the country.

As a result, I’ve been thinking about women and food in film and have come up with a short list of women preparing and/or enjoying food on screen. Some of these I’ve seen, and some I haven’t, but here’s a delicious sampling to whet your appetites!