I watched two American "chick flicks" last week, Sleepless in Seattle (1993)—terribly predictable as to its outcome—and Julie and Julia (2009), with Meryl Streep larger than life. This second film was the more original, but both films shared the distinction of having a double plot in which the lives of their two main characters hardly intersected at all: in Sleepless ... the two main characters only make one another's acquaintance in the last few minutes of the film, and from the beginning to the end of the other one, Julie never actually meets Julia. The plot is the true and recent story of a woman who becomes famous by keeping a blog, a likely story! Well, it didn't seem very plausible to me. This post, for example, originally published on September 1st, 2002, is the origin of one of the moments dramatised on the big screen where you see 29 year old "Julie" eating her first ever poached egg.
No big cooking projects to blog about in my house at the moment unless you want to read all the details of how I'm coping with my one square foot of work surface on Carol's collapsible table in our living room. We managed to have home made split pea soup from the slow cooker with ham sandwiches, tonight.
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