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No Lobsters Were Harmed in the Making of this Movie
Buried deep within Kim Severson’s fascinating NYT article on food styling in the upcoming “Julie & Julia” film is this nugget:
On the set of “Julie & Julia,” the lobsters posed a special challenge. Ms. Adams appears to plunge two live lobsters into a pot of steaming water. The steam is actually a cool mist, and just off camera representatives from the American Humane Association monitored the creatures’ health.
Meanwhile, on the front page of the Times, you can also read about how Iranian protesters were beaten to death. But no, we Americans are really, really concerned about the well-being of . . . lobsters.
Let’s hope no one told those representatives what was in the liver aspic, the lamb stew, or for that matter, the Dover sole. Multiple portions of which were bought for the styling of the movie.
On the other hand, there may be a sequel in this: What became of your lobster, Julie? You still wake up and hear them screaming, don’t you?
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Julie Powell: Food Bloggers Are Clannish, Slightly Evil People
Last night the Young Lions of the New York Public Library hosted a panel, “Eating at Home,” featuring Amanda Hesser, Rocco DiSpirito, Marion Nestle, and Julie Powell, author of Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment, the basis of an upcoming film starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The most revelatory part of the evening? Though she was perhaps the first food blogger to get a book out of her blog postings, and certainly the first to get a movie starring Amy Adams as herself, Julie Powell does not consider herself a food blogger and feels “deeply ambivalent” about the whole food blogging phenomenon. “Food bloggers are clannish, slightly evil people sometimes.” Et tu, Julie?
The Young Lions Committee often features excellent panels like this (I’ve also seen Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, and Bill Buford face off on stage there), so if you want to see excellent speakers first hand, please join and help them out: The New York Public Library just lost $57 million in funding.
More highlights from the talk, after the jump.