1 00:00:46,703 --> 00:00:48,746 Repeat after me, okay? 2 00:01:07,140 --> 00:01:08,932 Oh, Paul, leave me alone. 3 00:01:26,534 --> 00:01:29,203 - Bon appétit. - Bon appétit. 4 00:01:39,547 --> 00:01:40,756 Butter. 5 00:01:48,431 --> 00:01:50,682 Oh, my goodness. 6 00:01:51,935 --> 00:01:54,102 You have to taste this. 7 00:01:56,606 --> 00:01:57,689 Here. 8 00:02:07,075 --> 00:02:08,408 I mean... It's... 9 00:02:08,493 --> 00:02:09,743 - I know. - But I'm... 10 00:02:09,828 --> 00:02:13,247 I know. I know. I know. 11 00:02:17,085 --> 00:02:21,421 Look at that! Oh, Paul, it's so beautiful! 12 00:02:28,429 --> 00:02:29,763 Slow down. 13 00:02:31,099 --> 00:02:32,349 Sorry. 14 00:02:41,442 --> 00:02:44,361 This is it. Look, right... Just stop. 15 00:02:46,990 --> 00:02:50,826 I can't believe we get to live here. 16 00:02:52,495 --> 00:02:53,829 Paul! 17 00:03:19,355 --> 00:03:21,523 Is this a mistake? Should we have stayed in Brooklyn? 18 00:03:21,608 --> 00:03:24,526 We're gonna love Queens. Queens is beautiful. 19 00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:12,950 Moving truck's here. 20 00:04:24,212 --> 00:04:25,504 You okay? 21 00:04:25,755 --> 00:04:28,465 - Everything is falling down. - Hey. 22 00:04:28,883 --> 00:04:30,842 What are we doing here? 23 00:04:31,052 --> 00:04:32,636 Repeat after me. 24 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,891 - Nine hundred square feet. - Nine hundred square feet. 25 00:04:39,519 --> 00:04:40,894 Plus, it's close to your office. 26 00:04:40,979 --> 00:04:44,064 Plus, it's close to my office, but we don't have to move. 27 00:04:44,148 --> 00:04:49,236 We could renege on the lease, repack everything and live in the Jeep. 28 00:04:51,114 --> 00:04:53,991 You're right. You're right. 29 00:04:55,952 --> 00:04:58,704 - Eric, what is that noise? - What noise? 30 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,750 Is it going to be like this every night? 31 00:05:06,587 --> 00:05:07,838 Maybe. 32 00:05:13,845 --> 00:05:15,053 Jule? 33 00:05:17,515 --> 00:05:19,266 It's Versailles. 34 00:05:22,020 --> 00:05:24,855 I'm so happy you like it, darling. 35 00:06:43,184 --> 00:06:45,519 Good morning, "Lower Manhattan Development Corporation", 36 00:06:45,812 --> 00:06:46,978 LMDC. 37 00:06:47,396 --> 00:06:50,857 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Julie Powell. 38 00:06:51,192 --> 00:06:56,279 - My son died in the second tower. - I'm sorry. 39 00:07:00,368 --> 00:07:01,785 I'm so sorry. 40 00:07:02,912 --> 00:07:05,330 Are you the person to speak to if I don't like the plan for the memorial... 41 00:07:05,414 --> 00:07:07,958 - that was in this morning's Times? - You can speak to me. 42 00:07:08,042 --> 00:07:10,377 - Do you have any power? - No. 43 00:07:10,461 --> 00:07:14,297 I wanna speak to someone with power. I don't like the plan. 44 00:07:14,382 --> 00:07:16,591 I don't like the plan either. 45 00:07:17,135 --> 00:07:20,345 You people are a bunch of heartless bureaucratic goons. 46 00:07:20,429 --> 00:07:22,013 I am not a heartless bureaucratic goon. 47 00:07:22,098 --> 00:07:25,308 I am just a person in a cubicle, and I am doing the best I can, ma'am. 48 00:07:25,393 --> 00:07:28,270 This is my sixth phone call and the only thing anyone ever tells me is... 49 00:07:28,354 --> 00:07:31,314 I have to fill out a form to get in line for an insurance payment. 50 00:07:31,399 --> 00:07:35,318 And you do. But, I mean, if you don't wanna fill out a form I will fill one out for you, 51 00:07:35,403 --> 00:07:37,487 but you're still going to have to come in and sign it. 52 00:07:37,572 --> 00:07:40,407 - To your cubicle? - Yes. 53 00:07:41,659 --> 00:07:44,202 I feel terrible about what you're going through, Mr. Diamond, but... 54 00:07:44,287 --> 00:07:47,330 You have no idea what I'm going through, Ms. Powell. You have no idea. 55 00:07:47,498 --> 00:07:50,417 - Please don't yell at me. - This whole thing is completely inefficient. 56 00:07:50,501 --> 00:07:51,918 - Please stop yelling at me. - It's ridiculous. 57 00:07:52,003 --> 00:07:54,546 - My 3-year-old is more capable of helping. - I am your friend. 58 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,384 And now the doctor says there's fiberglass in his lungs. 59 00:07:59,468 --> 00:08:04,472 He coughs. He never stops coughing. I don't know what to do. 60 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,975 His wife says there's so much crap in his lungs he can't breathe, 61 00:08:07,059 --> 00:08:10,312 and now his insurance is refusing to pay for this drug that might really work. 62 00:08:10,396 --> 00:08:13,773 - Tell her to call the Health Department. - That's an answering machine. 63 00:08:13,858 --> 00:08:17,277 Andrea Gomez in the mayor's office. 64 00:08:17,612 --> 00:08:20,488 Thank you. Thank you. 65 00:08:33,085 --> 00:08:35,378 Chocolate cream pie. 66 00:08:38,424 --> 00:08:41,384 - You know what I love about cooking? - What's that? 67 00:08:41,469 --> 00:08:43,887 I love that after a day when nothing is sure, 68 00:08:43,971 --> 00:08:50,227 and when I say "nothing" I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know... 69 00:08:50,311 --> 00:08:54,147 that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, 70 00:08:54,232 --> 00:08:57,692 it will get thick. It's such a comfort. 71 00:08:58,819 --> 00:09:00,111 Bad day? 72 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,157 When will this pie be ready? 73 00:09:04,242 --> 00:09:06,910 Soon, but I have to make the whipped cream first and let it set. 74 00:09:06,994 --> 00:09:09,496 I'll be here. It's a masterpiece. 75 00:09:12,250 --> 00:09:14,668 Ritual Cobb salad lunch tomorrow. 76 00:09:15,503 --> 00:09:17,671 Dreading, dreading, dreading. 77 00:09:20,174 --> 00:09:21,216 Subway. 78 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:22,759 - Hi. - Hi. 79 00:09:22,843 --> 00:09:24,219 How are you? 80 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:27,847 What can I get for you ladies? 81 00:09:27,932 --> 00:09:29,975 I will have a Cobb salad, no bleu cheese. 82 00:09:30,059 --> 00:09:32,936 - Cobb salad, no beets. - Cobb salad, no bacon. 83 00:09:33,020 --> 00:09:35,188 - Cobb salad, no eggs. - Okay, tell them... 84 00:09:35,273 --> 00:09:40,193 Are you listening carefully, Tracy? Tell them to take the offer up to 185. 85 00:09:40,361 --> 00:09:41,778 - Here she goes. - Repeat after me, Tracy. 86 00:09:41,862 --> 00:09:43,822 - 1-8-5. - What's going on? 87 00:09:44,865 --> 00:09:46,908 And call me the second you hear back. 88 00:09:47,994 --> 00:09:50,495 My assistant. It's almost not worth having one. 89 00:09:50,579 --> 00:09:52,414 I know. Yesterday I said to Allison, 90 00:09:52,498 --> 00:09:54,666 "Go to the pharmacy, get me a pair of black pantyhose." 91 00:09:54,750 --> 00:09:56,626 She came back and said, "They didn't have any." 92 00:09:56,711 --> 00:10:01,089 I said, "Did you try another pharmacy?" I mean, really. 93 00:10:01,173 --> 00:10:04,050 Or Bloomingdale's. What's wrong with trying Bloomingdale's? 94 00:10:04,135 --> 00:10:06,803 Yeah, I don't get it. If only I could be my own assistant. 95 00:10:06,887 --> 00:10:08,263 You can be. 96 00:10:09,015 --> 00:10:12,142 Fire your assistant and don't hire a replacement. 97 00:10:12,643 --> 00:10:14,853 No, that's not what I mean, Julie. 98 00:10:14,937 --> 00:10:17,063 Excuse me. Oh... 99 00:10:17,523 --> 00:10:20,275 - Oh, those are cute. - Oh, thanks. Thanks. 100 00:10:20,359 --> 00:10:25,864 Okay, tell them 190, 1-9-0. Great. 101 00:10:26,032 --> 00:10:28,575 "1-9-0." What? What are you up to? 102 00:10:28,659 --> 00:10:32,579 $190 million. We're assembling a parcel at Midtown. 103 00:10:32,663 --> 00:10:35,290 Oh, wow. Oh, oh, that is so great, Cassie. 104 00:10:35,374 --> 00:10:37,000 A parcel of what? 105 00:10:38,210 --> 00:10:39,336 Buildings. 106 00:10:39,503 --> 00:10:42,172 We're gonna tear them all down and put up a high-rise. 107 00:10:42,256 --> 00:10:43,798 - To your parcel. - Thank you. 108 00:10:47,470 --> 00:10:49,888 And enough about you, here's to me. 109 00:10:49,972 --> 00:10:54,893 As of yesterday, I am the senior vice president in charge of corporate publicity. 110 00:10:55,144 --> 00:10:56,728 - No. - Which means I get a raise... 111 00:10:56,812 --> 00:11:00,690 and I can borrow half a million dollars at 2% if I want to. 112 00:11:00,775 --> 00:11:02,734 - Great. - If you want to? 113 00:11:03,736 --> 00:11:06,488 - So how's your job, Julie? - Oh, it's... 114 00:11:06,614 --> 00:11:08,698 - I can only imagine. Heartbreaking. - So sad. 115 00:11:08,783 --> 00:11:10,617 - Painful. - Not in a bad way. 116 00:11:10,701 --> 00:11:13,787 - Excuse me. Oh, God, I forgot. - Excuse me. 117 00:11:14,663 --> 00:11:15,663 - Hello? - Hello? 118 00:11:15,748 --> 00:11:16,790 - Hi. - Hi. 119 00:11:16,874 --> 00:11:20,835 Hey, Jules? I have got to interview you for this piece that I'm writing. 120 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,630 Sure, Annabelle, great. I'd be honored. 121 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:26,216 Call Julie about interview. 122 00:11:26,300 --> 00:11:30,011 Find out about dry cleaning. Find out before dinner on Thursday. 123 00:11:30,096 --> 00:11:31,596 Saturday party. 124 00:11:33,349 --> 00:11:34,391 No. 125 00:11:34,475 --> 00:11:37,769 I cannot computer-coach you every day while I'm with my girlfriends. 126 00:11:37,853 --> 00:11:40,146 What is it about? The article? 127 00:11:40,439 --> 00:11:44,317 It's about our generation turning 30. 128 00:11:45,194 --> 00:11:50,490 People turning 30. Oh, my life, I am so busy. 129 00:11:50,658 --> 00:11:53,660 I don't know when I can fit you in. 130 00:11:54,745 --> 00:11:58,498 May I remind you, I don't want to see you, you want to see me? 131 00:11:58,582 --> 00:12:00,792 Yeah. Would a breakfast work? 132 00:12:04,672 --> 00:12:06,589 I believed her. What kind of idiot am I? 133 00:12:06,674 --> 00:12:10,135 She said, "It's about our generation turning 30." 134 00:12:10,219 --> 00:12:12,679 What'd you expect? Annabelle was always a liar. 135 00:12:12,930 --> 00:12:16,141 "Julie Powell, once the editor of the Amherst literary magazine, 136 00:12:16,225 --> 00:12:18,893 the one we all knew would be 'The One', 137 00:12:19,019 --> 00:12:22,397 temped for eight years before giving up on her novel, 138 00:12:22,481 --> 00:12:25,608 and now works in a cubicle as a mid-level bureaucrat, 139 00:12:25,693 --> 00:12:29,028 attempting to deal with the after-effects of 9/11." 140 00:12:29,113 --> 00:12:33,032 Oh, God, you memorized it? How pathetic. 141 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,993 She left so much out. 142 00:12:36,704 --> 00:12:38,371 Anyway, the picture was good. 143 00:12:38,456 --> 00:12:40,874 - I looked fat. - Just your face. 144 00:12:45,921 --> 00:12:49,424 I forgot to tell you. Do you know what Annabelle's doing now? 145 00:12:49,508 --> 00:12:52,343 - Sarah told me. A blog. - Of what? 146 00:12:52,511 --> 00:12:55,472 What do you mean "of what"? A blog of Annabelle. 147 00:12:55,556 --> 00:12:58,266 Of every thought that passes through her brain. 148 00:12:58,392 --> 00:13:01,561 Her stupid, vapid, insipid... 149 00:13:03,814 --> 00:13:05,607 I could write a blog. 150 00:13:06,025 --> 00:13:07,275 I have thoughts. 151 00:13:07,401 --> 00:13:10,320 And you're a writer, which is more than I can say for Annabelle. 152 00:13:10,404 --> 00:13:12,780 - If only that were true. - You wrote a novel. 153 00:13:12,865 --> 00:13:16,409 Half a novel. And no one wanted to publish it. 154 00:13:16,911 --> 00:13:19,787 You're not a writer unless someone publishes you. 155 00:13:19,914 --> 00:13:23,625 See, that's what's so great about blogs. You don't have to be published. 156 00:13:23,709 --> 00:13:29,172 You can just go online, press enter and there it is, out there. 157 00:13:29,340 --> 00:13:31,257 What would I write a blog about? 158 00:13:31,342 --> 00:13:33,092 You're an editor, tell me. 159 00:13:33,177 --> 00:13:36,763 Why don't you write about how much you love Queens? 160 00:13:38,807 --> 00:13:40,266 A short blog. 161 00:13:42,186 --> 00:13:46,105 You could write about your job. 162 00:13:47,733 --> 00:13:50,443 If I wrote a blog about my job and anyone at work ever read it... 163 00:13:50,528 --> 00:13:53,112 - I mean, hello. - This is good. 164 00:13:53,781 --> 00:13:55,365 This is really good. 165 00:13:55,449 --> 00:13:59,327 On top of which, the whole idea of writing a blog is to get away from what I do all day. 166 00:13:59,411 --> 00:14:02,997 The way that cooking is a way that I get away from what I do all day. 167 00:14:03,123 --> 00:14:05,333 So write a blog about cooking. 168 00:14:07,670 --> 00:14:11,256 I'm not a real cook, like Julia Child or Mario Batali. 169 00:14:11,465 --> 00:14:14,133 Julia Child wasn't always Julia Child. 170 00:14:19,598 --> 00:14:22,183 If I really wanted to learn to cook, 171 00:14:22,476 --> 00:14:25,937 I could just cook my way through Julia Child's cookbook. 172 00:14:26,021 --> 00:14:27,981 I could blog about that. 173 00:14:28,315 --> 00:14:32,360 I have a copy. I stole it from my mother last time I was in Texas. 174 00:14:34,321 --> 00:14:39,075 When I was eight, my father's boss came to dinner and it was a really big deal, 175 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:41,828 and my mother made boeuf bourguignon. 176 00:14:41,996 --> 00:14:46,666 But it wasn't just boeuf bourguignon. It was Julia's boeuf bourguignon. 177 00:14:47,042 --> 00:14:51,504 And it was like she was there, like Julia was there in the room, 178 00:14:52,172 --> 00:14:57,510 on our side like some great big good fairy. 179 00:14:58,512 --> 00:15:01,306 And everything was going to be all right. 180 00:15:04,852 --> 00:15:08,855 I'm gonna try to flip this thing over now, 181 00:15:09,064 --> 00:15:12,150 which is a rather daring thing to do. 182 00:15:12,735 --> 00:15:13,985 She changed everything. 183 00:15:14,069 --> 00:15:18,281 Before her, it was frozen food and can openers and marshmallows. 184 00:15:18,365 --> 00:15:20,366 Don't knock marshmallows. 185 00:15:21,201 --> 00:15:23,244 When you flip anything, 186 00:15:23,370 --> 00:15:27,540 you've just got to have the courage of your convictions. 187 00:15:27,916 --> 00:15:31,586 Especially if it's a loose sort of mass like... 188 00:15:31,712 --> 00:15:34,672 That didn't go very well. 189 00:15:35,049 --> 00:15:36,341 But, you see, when I flipped it, 190 00:15:36,425 --> 00:15:40,053 - I didn't have the courage I needed... - She's so adorable. 191 00:15:40,596 --> 00:15:42,805 ...the way I should've. 192 00:15:43,515 --> 00:15:46,309 But you can always put it together. 193 00:15:46,644 --> 00:15:51,272 And you're alone in the kitchen. Who's to see? 194 00:15:52,566 --> 00:15:54,651 Pearls. The woman is wearing pearls in the kitchen. 195 00:15:54,735 --> 00:15:57,904 ...you've just got to practice, like the piano. 196 00:15:58,906 --> 00:16:00,990 I'm Julia Child. 197 00:16:01,283 --> 00:16:02,700 Bon appétit. 198 00:16:02,993 --> 00:16:05,578 - Bon appétit. - Bon appétit. 199 00:16:06,205 --> 00:16:08,373 Bon appétit. 200 00:16:08,582 --> 00:16:13,002 Julia Child is coauthor of the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking. 201 00:16:21,929 --> 00:16:23,096 Bon appétit. 202 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:29,727 "For the servantless American cook." That's me, all right. 203 00:16:33,816 --> 00:16:36,192 Okay, here's a problem. I've never eaten an egg. 204 00:16:36,276 --> 00:16:39,195 And I have a hyper-acidic stomach. We'll deal. 205 00:16:40,656 --> 00:16:44,867 So I'll cook my way through the Julia Child cookbook... 206 00:16:44,952 --> 00:16:46,661 and write a blog about it. 207 00:16:46,745 --> 00:16:49,414 - But I'll probably need a deadline. - Why? 208 00:16:49,957 --> 00:16:52,333 Because otherwise it'll be like everything else I do. 209 00:16:52,418 --> 00:16:54,001 'Cause let's face it, I never finish anything. 210 00:16:54,086 --> 00:16:56,129 - Hey. - Well, it's true. 211 00:16:56,797 --> 00:16:59,132 You know why I think it is? 212 00:16:59,216 --> 00:17:01,217 - ADD. - You have ADD? 213 00:17:01,385 --> 00:17:04,345 Yes. That's why I'm so bad at housework. 214 00:17:05,139 --> 00:17:06,723 Oh, is that it? 215 00:17:07,349 --> 00:17:08,975 I'm just saying, a deadline would be good. 216 00:17:09,059 --> 00:17:10,560 So a deadline. "I love deadlines. 217 00:17:10,644 --> 00:17:14,063 I love the sound they make as they go whooshing past." 218 00:17:14,148 --> 00:17:16,315 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. - I mean it. 219 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,027 - Okay, so a year, or so. - A year? 220 00:17:21,321 --> 00:17:23,740 This thing weighs like two pounds. 221 00:17:23,824 --> 00:17:29,162 I have a full-time job. Sometimes I don't get home until 8:00 or 9:00 and... 222 00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:32,081 It's crazy. It's crazy. 223 00:17:32,332 --> 00:17:35,126 - Is it crazy? - Yes. Yes. 224 00:17:36,128 --> 00:17:39,046 - Okay, you want to do Blog Z? - Yes. 225 00:17:39,256 --> 00:17:40,715 Blog Z it is. 226 00:17:42,676 --> 00:17:44,177 Nobody here... 227 00:17:45,804 --> 00:17:48,723 but us servantless American cooks. 228 00:17:48,974 --> 00:17:53,770 "Servantless American cooks." 229 00:17:54,021 --> 00:17:56,022 - What do you think? - Love it. 230 00:17:56,857 --> 00:17:58,483 "Start blogging." 231 00:17:59,902 --> 00:18:02,653 "The Julie/Julia Project." 232 00:18:02,946 --> 00:18:05,907 The Book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. 233 00:18:05,991 --> 00:18:10,536 First edition, 1961 by Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, 234 00:18:10,621 --> 00:18:15,958 and, of course, Julia Child, the woman who taught America to cook and to eat. 235 00:18:17,002 --> 00:18:20,087 It's 40 years later and no one can touch her. 236 00:18:20,380 --> 00:18:26,177 The Challenge, 365 days, 524 recipes. 237 00:18:26,470 --> 00:18:28,721 The Contender, Julie Powell. 238 00:18:28,931 --> 00:18:31,641 Government employee by day, renegade foodie by night. 239 00:18:31,725 --> 00:18:35,144 Risking her marriage, her job, and her cat's well-being, 240 00:18:35,229 --> 00:18:38,231 she has signed on for a deranged assignment. 241 00:18:38,315 --> 00:18:40,900 How far it will go, no one can say. 242 00:19:06,677 --> 00:19:10,680 Dear Charlie, we're settled in finally, and Julia loves it here. 243 00:19:11,098 --> 00:19:13,140 She wants to stay forever. 244 00:19:13,725 --> 00:19:17,603 You know how famously grouchy the French can be, dear brother. 245 00:19:17,688 --> 00:19:19,939 Everyone here is so delightful. 246 00:19:21,316 --> 00:19:23,860 But Julia brings out the best in a polecat. 247 00:19:23,944 --> 00:19:25,236 So charming. 248 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,115 So she thinks they're the most wonderful people in the world. 249 00:19:30,158 --> 00:19:32,869 I feel that I am French. 250 00:19:34,997 --> 00:19:37,915 I just must be. 251 00:19:38,834 --> 00:19:41,669 Well, you might be. 252 00:19:44,214 --> 00:19:49,218 As for staying here forever, I have to say, I wouldn't mind it myself. 253 00:19:50,429 --> 00:19:51,804 And I'm so glad that you came, 254 00:19:51,889 --> 00:19:53,097 - I can't tell you. - It was a very nice show. 255 00:19:53,181 --> 00:19:54,974 - Thanks for coming. - I enjoyed it. 256 00:19:55,183 --> 00:19:59,562 - Paul, congratulations. Excellent exhibit. - Thanks so much, Jack. 257 00:19:59,646 --> 00:20:02,231 Jack Donovan, this is my wife, Julia. 258 00:20:02,733 --> 00:20:07,987 - It was such a wonderful exhibition, Paul. - Thank you. Thank you. 259 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:12,575 - I am so proud of you. - Oh, good. 260 00:20:12,910 --> 00:20:15,828 French people eat French food! 261 00:20:16,663 --> 00:20:21,000 - Every single day! I can't get over it. - They do. 262 00:20:23,754 --> 00:20:27,882 You know I love you so much, I'm gonna let you take the first bite. 263 00:20:28,133 --> 00:20:31,677 - That's so good. - Before I even had... It's good, is it? 264 00:20:36,558 --> 00:20:38,851 What should I do, do you think? 265 00:20:40,270 --> 00:20:41,646 About what? 266 00:20:43,148 --> 00:20:46,442 I don't really want to go back into government work. 267 00:20:46,860 --> 00:20:50,154 You know, but I... Shouldn't I find something to do? 268 00:20:51,865 --> 00:20:55,326 These wives don't do anything here. 269 00:20:56,161 --> 00:20:58,955 - That's not me. It's just not me. - I know. 270 00:20:59,831 --> 00:21:03,250 I saw a notice on the bulletin board at the embassy... 271 00:21:04,002 --> 00:21:06,045 for hat-making lessons. 272 00:21:09,549 --> 00:21:11,050 You like hats. 273 00:21:12,219 --> 00:21:13,594 I do, I do. 274 00:21:16,056 --> 00:21:17,139 I do. 275 00:21:19,768 --> 00:21:22,395 What is it that you really like to do? 276 00:21:23,814 --> 00:21:24,897 Eat. 277 00:21:27,901 --> 00:21:31,737 - It's what I like to do. - I know, I know. I know. I know. 278 00:21:32,197 --> 00:21:34,657 - And you are so good at it. Look at you! - I am good at it. 279 00:21:34,741 --> 00:21:37,159 - Now. How good you are. - I'm growing in front of you. 280 00:21:50,632 --> 00:21:53,384 I was thinking of taking bridge lessons. 281 00:21:55,220 --> 00:21:59,807 - You like bridge. - I do. I like the idea of bridge. 282 00:21:59,933 --> 00:22:03,310 Four points for an ace, three points for a king, 283 00:22:03,395 --> 00:22:06,772 two points for a queen, one point for a jack. 284 00:22:06,982 --> 00:22:09,025 And breast your cards. 285 00:22:10,318 --> 00:22:13,946 Do you have any French cookbooks in English? 286 00:22:14,573 --> 00:22:18,242 - I'm afraid not. - Gosh. 287 00:22:35,010 --> 00:22:36,635 The salesperson. She... 288 00:22:39,598 --> 00:22:44,602 Had no idea... Because, you see, there is no French cookbook in English. 289 00:22:44,936 --> 00:22:48,397 And all I have is this "Joy of Cooking" by Irma Rombauer, 290 00:22:48,482 --> 00:22:51,734 which is an excellent, excellent cookbook, but it's not French. 291 00:22:51,818 --> 00:22:54,445 So I did ask my friend Avis De Voto... 292 00:22:54,529 --> 00:22:57,490 to look around in the United States to see if she could find... 293 00:23:02,454 --> 00:23:05,998 Right. Right. 294 00:23:06,208 --> 00:23:10,211 Gosh, I thought I was speaking French to you! 295 00:23:19,513 --> 00:23:21,263 Oh, my goodness! 296 00:23:22,849 --> 00:23:25,017 What do we have here? 297 00:23:25,435 --> 00:23:27,937 - It's a copy of... - It's my memoirs. 298 00:23:30,148 --> 00:23:31,398 Oh, look. 299 00:23:32,859 --> 00:23:36,737 Oh, it's fantastic! But it's in French! 300 00:23:37,823 --> 00:23:39,573 - You'll get there. You'll get there. - Thank you, darling. 301 00:23:39,658 --> 00:23:42,701 I know. I'm learning. I'm trying. I'm really... 302 00:23:43,411 --> 00:23:45,204 Happy birthday to me. 303 00:23:45,831 --> 00:23:47,665 Happy birthday. 304 00:23:50,585 --> 00:23:53,712 - What can this mean? - What? 305 00:23:58,218 --> 00:24:02,721 - "Wash the thighs." - No, "bathe." Bathe the thighs. 306 00:24:02,889 --> 00:24:06,183 - Look, but then... - Where? 307 00:24:06,518 --> 00:24:09,103 "In butter." I know that. But what is the... 308 00:24:09,187 --> 00:24:13,065 Bathe the thighs in butter and then stuff the ..." 309 00:24:13,150 --> 00:24:14,150 What's that word? 310 00:24:14,234 --> 00:24:16,152 - The hen! - Right. Hen. 311 00:24:16,236 --> 00:24:21,574 "Until she just can't take it anymore." 312 00:24:25,036 --> 00:24:26,370 - It doesn't say that. - It does. 313 00:24:26,454 --> 00:24:31,333 I'll show you later in the dictionary. I'll go through the whole recipe with you. 314 00:24:32,252 --> 00:24:36,005 - Why don't I go to cooking school? - Why don't you? 315 00:24:36,089 --> 00:24:38,591 - I'm serious. - So am I. 316 00:24:40,135 --> 00:24:41,510 Oh, my God. 317 00:24:47,350 --> 00:24:50,144 What if you hadn't fallen in love with me? 318 00:24:51,146 --> 00:24:52,605 But I did. 319 00:24:58,069 --> 00:24:59,820 Oh, gosh. 320 00:25:08,705 --> 00:25:11,999 Yesterday was Tuesday, August 13th, 2002. 321 00:25:12,292 --> 00:25:15,711 Day one. 364 days to go. 322 00:25:17,380 --> 00:25:19,215 I cooked artichokes with hollandaise sauce... 323 00:25:19,299 --> 00:25:23,010 which is melted butter that's been whipped into a frenzy with egg yolks... 324 00:25:23,094 --> 00:25:25,846 until it's died and gone to heaven. 325 00:25:26,223 --> 00:25:29,975 And let me say this. Is there anything better than butter? 326 00:25:30,060 --> 00:25:31,769 Think it over. Every time you taste something... 327 00:25:31,853 --> 00:25:36,190 that's delicious beyond imagining, and you say, "What is in this?" 328 00:25:36,358 --> 00:25:39,485 The answer is always going to be "butter." 329 00:25:39,653 --> 00:25:40,903 It's incredible. 330 00:25:40,987 --> 00:25:42,738 It's been whisked into submission, that's why. 331 00:25:42,822 --> 00:25:46,742 The day there's a meteorite heading toward the earth and we have 30 days to live, 332 00:25:46,826 --> 00:25:49,411 I am going to spend it eating butter. 333 00:25:49,996 --> 00:25:52,539 Here's my final word on the subject. 334 00:25:53,124 --> 00:25:56,794 You can never have too much butter. 335 00:25:58,672 --> 00:26:00,297 August 24th, day 11. 336 00:26:00,382 --> 00:26:03,259 Is this what you mean when you say, "Don't crowd the mushrooms"? Is this a crowd? 337 00:26:03,343 --> 00:26:07,429 353 days to go. A horrible day at work. 338 00:26:07,597 --> 00:26:09,640 An old grandma who looked as if she wouldn't harm a fly... 339 00:26:09,724 --> 00:26:12,184 called me a pencil-pushing capitalist dupe. 340 00:26:12,269 --> 00:26:15,896 But then I came home and cooked chicken with cream, mushrooms and port, 341 00:26:15,981 --> 00:26:17,856 and it was total bliss. 342 00:26:18,108 --> 00:26:19,483 Here's the big news. 343 00:26:19,567 --> 00:26:22,778 I had been cooking mushrooms the wrong way my entire life. 344 00:26:22,862 --> 00:26:26,740 Don't crowd the mushrooms, otherwise they won't brown. 345 00:26:26,825 --> 00:26:29,368 Are you listening, whoever you are? 346 00:26:30,328 --> 00:26:31,453 You're gonna love that one. 347 00:26:31,538 --> 00:26:32,705 Day 22. 348 00:26:32,872 --> 00:26:34,456 This one's really good with fig jam. 349 00:26:34,541 --> 00:26:38,585 I got carried away in Dean & DeLuca last night and spent half my take-home pay. 350 00:26:38,670 --> 00:26:40,921 And the first thing I realized when I got to the subway... 351 00:26:41,006 --> 00:26:43,299 with my groceries, a bag of cat litter, 352 00:26:43,383 --> 00:26:47,970 a bottle of olive oil I absolutely could not live without, and a huge bunch of branches... 353 00:26:48,054 --> 00:26:51,682 was that the branches were probably not a good idea. 354 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:53,142 Sorry. 355 00:26:53,226 --> 00:26:56,186 They were slapping folks in the face right and left and I was sweating like a pig. 356 00:26:56,271 --> 00:27:01,608 Not surprising, since I've been way too busy cooking fattening food to bother exercising. 357 00:27:02,027 --> 00:27:06,238 And then I came home and got a big vote of confidence from my mother. 358 00:27:06,573 --> 00:27:09,408 Remind me again why you're doing this... 359 00:27:09,701 --> 00:27:12,244 - Blog. - Whatever it's called. 360 00:27:13,121 --> 00:27:16,373 It's a regimen, Mom. Like doing sit-ups. 361 00:27:16,458 --> 00:27:19,793 - Well, it's just adding pressure. - What pressure? 362 00:27:19,878 --> 00:27:22,838 You have a full-time job, you have a husband, 363 00:27:22,922 --> 00:27:25,841 and now you're gonna get sick from blogging. 364 00:27:25,925 --> 00:27:29,261 - It's sort of like being in AA. - What are you saying? 365 00:27:30,221 --> 00:27:33,265 It gives you something you have to do every day, one day at a time. 366 00:27:33,350 --> 00:27:35,267 How do you know this lingo? 367 00:27:35,352 --> 00:27:37,394 Honey, are you an alcoholic? 368 00:27:37,479 --> 00:27:40,481 I'm saying it's good for me to have short-term goals. 369 00:27:40,565 --> 00:27:43,650 Well, that is silly. That is just plain silly. 370 00:27:44,110 --> 00:27:46,028 Who's reading this blog? 371 00:27:46,112 --> 00:27:48,155 People. People are reading it, I'm sure. 372 00:27:48,239 --> 00:27:50,032 Well, it's something you decided to do, 373 00:27:50,116 --> 00:27:53,327 and you can decide not to, and not one single person's gonna mind. 374 00:27:53,411 --> 00:27:55,954 No. Don't you get it? I just started. 375 00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:59,249 I can't stop, I have to finish. It's all I've got. 376 00:28:00,293 --> 00:28:02,503 Hello? Hello? 377 00:28:04,130 --> 00:28:05,339 Stupid dead phone. 378 00:28:05,423 --> 00:28:07,466 Hey, it's not all you got. 379 00:28:08,301 --> 00:28:10,803 I know. I know. I didn't mean that. 380 00:28:13,223 --> 00:28:15,557 Yesterday, I poached an egg. 381 00:28:15,809 --> 00:28:17,393 It seemed like the perfect thing to do... 382 00:28:17,477 --> 00:28:21,063 on perhaps the second worst workday in recorded history. 383 00:28:21,147 --> 00:28:23,440 Explain to me how you've never eaten an egg in your whole life. 384 00:28:23,525 --> 00:28:25,776 I've had eggs in, like, cakes. 385 00:28:26,486 --> 00:28:29,530 Never had an "egg" egg. I was a very willful child. 386 00:28:29,614 --> 00:28:30,823 It's simmering. 387 00:28:30,907 --> 00:28:35,160 I had this notion, God knows why, that poaching eggs would be simple. 388 00:28:36,204 --> 00:28:37,496 But I was deeply wrong. 389 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:40,416 "Immediately and gently push the white over the yolk with a wooden spoon... 390 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:43,252 for two to three seconds." Immediately. 391 00:28:49,217 --> 00:28:50,509 Disgusting. 392 00:28:50,593 --> 00:28:53,345 Oh, maybe the eggs aren't fresh. Julia says the eggs have to be fresh. 393 00:28:53,430 --> 00:28:54,972 They are fresh. 394 00:28:55,515 --> 00:28:59,518 Okay. You don't have to bite my head off. I'm just quoting Julia. 395 00:28:59,978 --> 00:29:03,313 It took three of us, crammed into the kitchen over a pot of simmering water, 396 00:29:03,398 --> 00:29:05,732 but, eventually, we nailed it. 397 00:29:05,817 --> 00:29:07,526 - Hello. - Welcome. 398 00:29:07,735 --> 00:29:09,361 How cute is that? 399 00:29:09,863 --> 00:29:15,075 And I ate my very first egg of my whole life, ever, ever, ever. 400 00:29:16,703 --> 00:29:21,039 I thought eggs were going to be greasy and slimy, but it tastes like... 401 00:29:22,250 --> 00:29:24,668 cheese sauce. Yum. 402 00:29:25,753 --> 00:29:27,504 Julia Child, you are so good. 403 00:29:27,589 --> 00:29:28,964 - Cheers. - Cheers. 404 00:29:29,048 --> 00:29:31,592 And, may I say, excellent wine? 405 00:29:31,801 --> 00:29:34,970 - Do you think Julia knows about you? - I wish. 406 00:29:35,263 --> 00:29:39,141 I have this fantasy that she comes for dinner and I show her my new lemon zester. 407 00:29:39,225 --> 00:29:41,018 We become very close. 408 00:29:42,729 --> 00:29:45,230 The truth is, no one knows about me. 409 00:29:45,857 --> 00:29:49,401 I feel like I'm just sending things into this giant void. 410 00:29:49,903 --> 00:29:53,447 Which reminds me. Annabelle's blog. Have you read it lately? 411 00:29:53,531 --> 00:29:54,573 Yes. 412 00:29:55,158 --> 00:29:57,910 - It's sort of funny. - Is it? 413 00:29:58,536 --> 00:30:02,247 She's dating this rich guy who owns a plane. His name's Lester. 414 00:30:02,332 --> 00:30:07,878 And they do it in the air. People love it. It's a huge hit. 415 00:30:09,088 --> 00:30:12,007 What do you think it means if you don't like your friends? 416 00:30:12,091 --> 00:30:14,551 - It's completely normal. - Men like their friends. 417 00:30:14,636 --> 00:30:18,013 We're not talking about men. Who's talking about men? 418 00:30:19,057 --> 00:30:23,769 So it's five weeks down, 47 to go, and I feel fantastic. 419 00:30:24,145 --> 00:30:28,899 Sometimes, I can't help but wonder. Is there anyone out there reading me? 420 00:30:28,983 --> 00:30:32,152 But I'm sure you are, aren't you? Somebody? 421 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:34,488 Anybody? 422 00:30:36,115 --> 00:30:38,242 Ernestine, I have a comment. 423 00:30:45,166 --> 00:30:47,334 My mother. Doesn't count. 424 00:30:52,257 --> 00:30:56,426 Today we will begin by learning to boil eggs. 425 00:30:57,428 --> 00:31:02,516 First, you must make sure that the egg is fresh. 426 00:31:03,101 --> 00:31:05,727 I was so hoping that... 427 00:31:06,688 --> 00:31:10,774 Well, for something a little more advanced, Madame Brassart. 428 00:31:11,150 --> 00:31:14,486 But you are not an advanced cook. 429 00:31:14,654 --> 00:31:17,698 But I do know how to boil an egg. 430 00:31:18,616 --> 00:31:21,159 Do you know how to bone a duck? 431 00:31:21,327 --> 00:31:24,913 No, but that's exactly the sort of thing... 432 00:31:24,998 --> 00:31:28,667 that I'm very interested in learning how to do. 433 00:31:32,297 --> 00:31:35,549 There is one other class, but you will not like it. 434 00:31:35,675 --> 00:31:40,387 It's for professional, which you will never be, I'm sure. 435 00:31:40,847 --> 00:31:43,849 All men. All GIs. 436 00:31:44,767 --> 00:31:46,393 And very expensive. 437 00:31:46,477 --> 00:31:50,272 I cannot imagine that you would ever want to pay the tuition. 438 00:31:50,857 --> 00:31:52,107 How much? 439 00:31:53,735 --> 00:31:55,986 So the onion is ready, but... 440 00:32:19,594 --> 00:32:21,803 You must hold the knife, first of all, like this. 441 00:32:21,888 --> 00:32:24,264 Wrist, easy. Leave the thumb here. 442 00:32:25,058 --> 00:32:27,726 The hand and the knife are one. 443 00:32:27,810 --> 00:32:31,021 And the hand, the other hand, you must protect it. 444 00:32:31,230 --> 00:32:33,940 Here, you must cut only the onion. Yes? 445 00:32:34,025 --> 00:32:36,151 - Not me. - Yes. 446 00:32:36,235 --> 00:32:39,946 And then, you put your thumb here and the other fingers here. 447 00:32:51,376 --> 00:32:52,542 Jule? 448 00:32:53,336 --> 00:32:55,629 You're being a little over-competitive, don't you think? 449 00:32:55,713 --> 00:32:59,007 Well, you should've seen the way those men looked at me. 450 00:32:59,092 --> 00:33:04,930 As if I were some frivolous housewife, just looking for a way to kill time. 451 00:33:06,891 --> 00:33:08,100 Well... 452 00:33:11,729 --> 00:33:13,772 - Where are you going? - Not here. 453 00:33:13,856 --> 00:33:16,108 - You hungry? - No. 454 00:33:18,027 --> 00:33:19,236 Good. 455 00:33:23,991 --> 00:33:25,158 Ta-da! 456 00:33:47,515 --> 00:33:49,725 Well done, Madame Child. 457 00:33:52,812 --> 00:33:57,983 Dear Avis, I'm in my third week at Le Cordon Bleu, 458 00:33:58,151 --> 00:34:00,277 and I'm in utter bliss. 459 00:34:00,778 --> 00:34:05,031 Every morning the alarm goes off at 6:30, and I leap out of bed. 460 00:34:05,116 --> 00:34:06,324 I'm up! 461 00:34:06,409 --> 00:34:12,164 By 7:30 I'm in class, in my apron, peeling potatoes. 462 00:34:12,457 --> 00:34:16,376 Then we cook stock and we bone fish. 463 00:34:16,461 --> 00:34:21,339 We dress pigeons. We make pastry with so much butter, 464 00:34:21,424 --> 00:34:24,801 it almost stops your heart just to look at it. 465 00:34:25,052 --> 00:34:29,264 My teacher moves so quickly I'm sometimes lost. 466 00:34:29,348 --> 00:34:33,226 But I'm way ahead of the others in the class, all of them men, 467 00:34:33,311 --> 00:34:39,357 and all of them very unfriendly, until they discovered I was fearless. 468 00:34:39,817 --> 00:34:43,028 Something I realized about the same time they did. 469 00:34:43,738 --> 00:34:49,868 Morning class ends at 12:30, then I go home and make lunch for Paul. 470 00:34:53,706 --> 00:34:56,541 Then Paul takes a nap. 471 00:34:58,878 --> 00:35:03,715 And later in the afternoon, he goes back to the embassy and I go back to school. 472 00:35:05,635 --> 00:35:09,221 You must have a mortar and pestle. 473 00:35:09,388 --> 00:35:14,267 Incidentally, my father is horrified I'm going to cooking school. 474 00:35:14,352 --> 00:35:17,395 Offered to give me extra money to hire a cook. 475 00:35:18,731 --> 00:35:23,318 Go on. Fun! Joy! This is what matters. 476 00:35:23,402 --> 00:35:25,987 I'm probably the only American I know in Paris... 477 00:35:26,072 --> 00:35:31,201 who thinks shopping for food is as much fun as buying a dress. 478 00:35:31,577 --> 00:35:33,495 Course, you'd think so too, if you lived in a country... 479 00:35:33,579 --> 00:35:37,874 where absolutely nothing comes in my size. 480 00:35:38,626 --> 00:35:42,629 By the way, did you know that if you don't dry meat, 481 00:35:42,755 --> 00:35:45,131 it won't brown properly? 482 00:35:45,591 --> 00:35:51,429 Irma Rombauer doesn't say a word about it in the Joy of Cooking. 483 00:35:52,181 --> 00:35:55,767 Avis, I am in heaven here. 484 00:35:55,935 --> 00:35:59,104 I've been looking for a career all my life... 485 00:35:59,438 --> 00:36:02,691 - Happy Valentine's Day. - ...and I've found it. 486 00:36:04,402 --> 00:36:06,903 We met in Ceylon when we were in the OSS. 487 00:36:06,988 --> 00:36:09,406 But he never noticed me at first. 488 00:36:09,490 --> 00:36:12,284 Well, that's not true. I noticed you. I noticed your legs straightaway. 489 00:36:12,368 --> 00:36:14,536 Oh, you were such a roué. 490 00:36:14,871 --> 00:36:18,999 - All the women were mad for him. - Can you blame them? 491 00:36:19,083 --> 00:36:21,626 Anyway, we were sent off to China. 492 00:36:21,961 --> 00:36:25,881 Absolutely delicious, if I do say so myself. 493 00:36:26,048 --> 00:36:27,257 Julia. 494 00:36:27,341 --> 00:36:29,718 When you finish your term, you'll be teaching at Cordon Bleu. 495 00:36:29,802 --> 00:36:31,636 No, I don't think so. 496 00:36:31,804 --> 00:36:35,390 The woman who runs it absolutely hates me! 497 00:36:35,474 --> 00:36:38,393 Come on. Oh, no one could possibly hate you. 498 00:36:39,103 --> 00:36:40,896 That's true. But she does. 499 00:36:40,980 --> 00:36:42,522 Were you spies? 500 00:36:44,442 --> 00:36:47,319 No. Yes. No. 501 00:36:48,738 --> 00:36:50,322 Oh, so cagey, right? 502 00:36:51,824 --> 00:36:56,036 You were in the "Office of Strategic Services" and you were not spies? 503 00:36:56,245 --> 00:36:58,663 I was only a file clerk. 504 00:36:59,582 --> 00:37:04,628 But Paul? Paul designed all of the secret war rooms for General Mountbatten. 505 00:37:04,962 --> 00:37:07,172 Well, just maps and exhibits and things. It wasn't... 506 00:37:07,256 --> 00:37:10,634 He did! He single-handedly won the war for us. 507 00:37:10,718 --> 00:37:14,804 Well, I had to. Someone did. I mean, it was dragging on, wasn't it? 508 00:37:15,014 --> 00:37:19,267 Anyway, so there we were in China, just friends having dinner, 509 00:37:23,397 --> 00:37:25,690 and it turned out to be Julia. 510 00:37:27,151 --> 00:37:29,653 It turned out to be Julia all along. 511 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,203 Julia, you are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life. 512 00:37:38,704 --> 00:37:40,705 I love you, darling girl. 513 00:37:41,874 --> 00:37:43,708 Happy Valentine's Day. 514 00:37:49,966 --> 00:37:51,508 Dear Charlie, 515 00:37:51,592 --> 00:37:55,136 Julia in front of her stove has the same fascination for me... 516 00:37:55,221 --> 00:37:58,139 as watching a kettle drummer at the symphony. 517 00:37:58,724 --> 00:38:01,643 The oven door opens and shuts so fast, 518 00:38:01,727 --> 00:38:06,564 you hardly notice the depth thrust of a spoon as she dips into a casserole, 519 00:38:06,649 --> 00:38:08,650 and up to her mouth for a taste check... 520 00:38:08,734 --> 00:38:11,903 Like a perfectly-timed double beat on the drums. 521 00:38:12,071 --> 00:38:14,239 Then with her bare fingers, 522 00:38:14,323 --> 00:38:18,618 she snatches a set of cannelloni out of the pot of boiling water, 523 00:38:18,703 --> 00:38:19,953 and she cries, 524 00:38:20,037 --> 00:38:23,081 "These damn things are as hot as a stiff cock." 525 00:38:24,667 --> 00:38:26,126 - She said what? - I know. 526 00:38:26,210 --> 00:38:29,796 - Julia Child said, "Hot as a ..." - I know, I'm shocked. 527 00:38:30,339 --> 00:38:35,593 It's from a letter that Paul Child wrote to his twin brother Charlie in 1949, 528 00:38:35,678 --> 00:38:37,929 when Julia was just starting classes at Le Cordon Bleu. 529 00:38:38,014 --> 00:38:41,141 So Julia and Paul, beaucoup, beaucoup. 530 00:38:41,225 --> 00:38:44,394 - I know. Just goes to show you. - What? 531 00:38:44,478 --> 00:38:47,522 You can never tell about a person's sex life by looking at them. 532 00:38:47,606 --> 00:38:49,399 They were so in love. 533 00:38:53,738 --> 00:38:55,697 Hot sauce from a reader. 534 00:38:55,781 --> 00:39:00,285 And today I had 12 comments from readers, and I didn't know any of them. 535 00:39:01,662 --> 00:39:04,581 Thanks to all my faithful readers for this loot. 536 00:39:04,665 --> 00:39:08,376 I have now completed 65 recipes in 47 days. 537 00:39:14,717 --> 00:39:18,428 On track with 103 recipes in just over two months. 538 00:39:18,512 --> 00:39:19,554 Looks like a cupcake. 539 00:39:19,638 --> 00:39:21,890 Lobster Thermidor is coming up, 540 00:39:21,974 --> 00:39:26,311 and I am going to have to murder and dismember a crustacean. 541 00:39:26,687 --> 00:39:28,646 How will I ever do this? 542 00:39:29,106 --> 00:39:31,733 Last night our sleep machine, the one we have by our bed... 543 00:39:31,817 --> 00:39:35,070 to drown out the noise of freight trucks rumbling past our apartment, 544 00:39:35,154 --> 00:39:37,906 was speaking to me. And it was saying, 545 00:39:37,990 --> 00:39:39,574 "Lobster killer. 546 00:39:40,367 --> 00:39:43,369 Lobster killer, lobster killer, lobster killer." 547 00:39:45,414 --> 00:39:48,249 One of my readers said that if you put lobsters in the freezer, 548 00:39:48,334 --> 00:39:50,210 it sort of numbs them. 549 00:39:56,759 --> 00:39:59,928 Then I got another comment that said, "Man up, kill the damn lobster. 550 00:40:00,012 --> 00:40:02,263 Just take a knife and do it." 551 00:40:07,645 --> 00:40:09,145 It's alive! 552 00:40:09,230 --> 00:40:10,438 Eric. 553 00:40:15,778 --> 00:40:17,112 Oh, God. 554 00:40:18,781 --> 00:40:21,199 "A note on dealing with live lobsters. 555 00:40:21,283 --> 00:40:25,036 If you object to steaming a live lobster," yes, 556 00:40:25,121 --> 00:40:29,082 "plunge the point of the knife into the head between the eyes." 557 00:40:30,376 --> 00:40:33,419 Oh, Julia, you make it sound so simple. 558 00:40:33,504 --> 00:40:35,088 Lobster killer. 559 00:40:35,422 --> 00:40:39,217 Eric. 560 00:40:39,301 --> 00:40:41,052 Get out of here. 561 00:40:41,387 --> 00:40:44,472 I don't need you at all. You are completely useless. 562 00:40:44,557 --> 00:40:48,810 I'm just gonna throw them into the water... 563 00:40:48,894 --> 00:40:52,188 and put the lid on and that will be that. 564 00:40:52,273 --> 00:40:54,524 Fine. 565 00:40:58,154 --> 00:40:59,362 Hello. 566 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,447 Goodbye. 567 00:41:04,076 --> 00:41:11,541 I'm sorry. 568 00:41:28,642 --> 00:41:29,934 You okay? 569 00:41:31,979 --> 00:41:33,271 Okay. 570 00:41:35,649 --> 00:41:37,275 Okay. All right. 571 00:41:38,777 --> 00:41:40,403 All right, boys. 572 00:41:40,946 --> 00:41:43,239 There's a new sheriff in town. 573 00:41:45,868 --> 00:41:50,830 Lobster killer. 574 00:41:57,004 --> 00:41:58,588 Under control. 575 00:41:58,964 --> 00:42:00,590 You are a saint. 576 00:42:01,550 --> 00:42:04,594 Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 577 00:42:04,678 --> 00:42:06,804 - Thank you. - You're welcome. 578 00:42:10,517 --> 00:42:11,726 - I can't. I can't. - You can. 579 00:42:11,810 --> 00:42:13,937 - No, I can't. I have a lot to do. - You can. 580 00:42:14,021 --> 00:42:15,146 - Eric, I can't. - I'm good. 581 00:42:15,231 --> 00:42:16,314 - Eric. - Just give me one more, give me one more. 582 00:42:16,398 --> 00:42:19,984 - Just one more. - Fine. Go, I have so much to do. Get! 583 00:42:20,069 --> 00:42:21,319 Out! 584 00:42:25,199 --> 00:42:27,242 - Hey, thank you so much. - Hey, man. How you doing? 585 00:42:27,326 --> 00:42:28,409 Happy birthday. 586 00:42:28,494 --> 00:42:29,661 Yeah, terrific. Good to see you. 587 00:42:29,745 --> 00:42:32,121 - Cake. - Cake. Brother-in-law. 588 00:42:32,206 --> 00:42:33,915 - Love you so much. - Hey, man. 589 00:42:33,999 --> 00:42:35,458 Hi, hi, hi, hi. 590 00:42:35,542 --> 00:42:38,711 Bon appétit. 591 00:42:40,339 --> 00:42:41,673 Happy birthday, Julie. 592 00:42:41,757 --> 00:42:43,800 - Happy birthday. - Hi! Thanks, sweetheart. 593 00:42:43,884 --> 00:42:46,928 Oh, thanks for coming all out here. Hey, you. 594 00:42:48,180 --> 00:42:51,266 Here's an incredible thing. When Julia and Paul met, she was a virgin. 595 00:42:51,350 --> 00:42:52,725 - Really? - Wow. 596 00:42:52,810 --> 00:42:55,186 She was, like, practically 40. 597 00:42:55,271 --> 00:42:57,355 - You serious? - How does anyone even know that? 598 00:42:57,439 --> 00:43:00,525 There were all these letters that Julia wrote to her friend Avis De Voto. 599 00:43:00,609 --> 00:43:04,320 And Paul wrote to his brother, and no one threw anything out, as far as I can tell. 600 00:43:04,405 --> 00:43:07,448 When they got married, she could barely boil an egg. 601 00:43:07,533 --> 00:43:08,741 Isn't that amazing? 602 00:43:08,826 --> 00:43:10,034 Really? 603 00:43:11,036 --> 00:43:14,497 - Braised cucumbers are a revelation. - This is good. 604 00:43:14,581 --> 00:43:17,166 I'm obsessed with her. I'm totally obsessed. 605 00:43:17,251 --> 00:43:18,501 She's totally obsessed. 606 00:43:18,585 --> 00:43:20,878 Well, it's good that you are, because this is amazing. 607 00:43:20,963 --> 00:43:22,505 Seriously. So good. 608 00:43:22,589 --> 00:43:26,301 Well, savor it, because that's all there is. I mean, lobster, major bucks. 609 00:43:26,385 --> 00:43:29,387 Why don't you put a PayPal thing on the website? 610 00:43:29,471 --> 00:43:31,306 People could send in money if they felt like it. 611 00:43:31,390 --> 00:43:33,308 Oh, yeah. Absolutely. 612 00:43:33,392 --> 00:43:35,310 You have fans, your readers love you. 613 00:43:35,394 --> 00:43:38,146 I do? I have fans? 614 00:43:38,230 --> 00:43:39,981 Yeah, you do. 615 00:43:41,275 --> 00:43:44,027 - Well, I can't ask them for money. - Why not? 616 00:43:44,111 --> 00:43:48,948 I think you should do the PayPal thing. That way we could have more lobster. 617 00:43:49,033 --> 00:43:54,162 - Harder. Get them. Get them. Hey, hey, hey! - Thirty. Thirty. Thirty. Thirty. Thirty. 618 00:43:57,416 --> 00:43:59,542 Happy birthday, sweetheart. 619 00:44:01,837 --> 00:44:03,212 Thank you. 620 00:44:16,518 --> 00:44:18,269 Just like Julia's. 621 00:44:21,106 --> 00:44:23,775 Only hers were probably the real deal. 622 00:44:24,526 --> 00:44:26,277 They're beautiful. 623 00:44:26,362 --> 00:44:28,112 Help you put it on. 624 00:44:31,784 --> 00:44:34,035 Let's give this a shot here. 625 00:44:38,791 --> 00:44:40,249 How's that? 626 00:44:41,502 --> 00:44:42,668 Yeah. 627 00:44:43,545 --> 00:44:45,171 I'm 30. 628 00:44:46,131 --> 00:44:48,800 I thought it was gonna be terrible, 629 00:44:49,468 --> 00:44:53,513 but thanks to you, and thanks to Julia, 630 00:44:53,597 --> 00:44:56,140 it feels like I'm gonna get through. 631 00:44:58,477 --> 00:44:59,685 Cake. 632 00:45:00,813 --> 00:45:02,939 More cake. How do you like that cake? 633 00:45:09,988 --> 00:45:11,322 Hey, you. 634 00:45:13,826 --> 00:45:15,451 I'm going to bed. 635 00:45:22,835 --> 00:45:25,503 Ernie, 53 comments on my lobster blog. 636 00:45:25,587 --> 00:45:26,838 Shut up. 637 00:45:29,675 --> 00:45:31,467 - Julie Powell. - This the person I speak to... 638 00:45:31,552 --> 00:45:32,593 if I got a problem? 639 00:45:32,678 --> 00:45:33,928 Yes, sir. What is your problem? 640 00:45:34,012 --> 00:45:36,556 Too much food, not enough sex. 641 00:45:37,850 --> 00:45:39,142 Eric, that's not funny. 642 00:45:39,226 --> 00:45:41,561 I thought it was pretty funny. 643 00:45:42,020 --> 00:45:43,104 Okay, it was. 644 00:45:43,188 --> 00:45:44,772 - Hey, guess what? - What? 645 00:45:44,857 --> 00:45:48,734 You are the third most popular blog on salon.com. 646 00:45:49,278 --> 00:45:51,487 - I am? - Yes, you are. 647 00:45:51,572 --> 00:45:52,738 I am! 648 00:45:53,198 --> 00:45:56,284 So I figure for every one who writes in, 649 00:45:56,368 --> 00:46:00,371 there are, I don't know, hundreds that don't. Don't you think? 650 00:46:00,539 --> 00:46:05,293 It's like there's this whole group of people who are sort of connected to me. 651 00:46:06,378 --> 00:46:08,463 They need me in some way. 652 00:46:09,047 --> 00:46:12,884 Like, if I didn't write, they would really be upset. 653 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:18,264 They'd probably take, like, poison, try to kill themselves. 654 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:49,212 Julia. 655 00:46:50,255 --> 00:46:51,631 Are you still making hats? 656 00:46:51,715 --> 00:46:54,258 Oh, no, I abandoned it. 657 00:46:54,343 --> 00:46:58,804 But I am ready to graduate from the Cordon Bleu. 658 00:46:59,348 --> 00:47:03,601 I can't get the damn woman who runs the school to schedule the test. 659 00:47:03,936 --> 00:47:07,438 Madame Brassart? Is that the woman you are speaking of? 660 00:47:07,689 --> 00:47:09,440 She is a bitch. 661 00:47:10,692 --> 00:47:12,485 She is, you're right. 662 00:47:12,903 --> 00:47:18,032 I think she's almost the only person in the world I honestly can't stand. 663 00:47:19,952 --> 00:47:22,870 She is not the only person I can't stand. 664 00:47:23,705 --> 00:47:25,122 Do you two know each other? 665 00:47:25,207 --> 00:47:28,042 You should. Julia Child, Simone Beck. 666 00:47:28,460 --> 00:47:30,878 - Simca. - Simca, how do you do? 667 00:47:31,672 --> 00:47:34,632 And this is my friend Louisette Bertholle. 668 00:47:36,802 --> 00:47:39,053 I can't believe you haven't met. 669 00:47:39,137 --> 00:47:42,098 Simca and Louisette are writing a cookbook. 670 00:47:42,891 --> 00:47:45,476 - For Americans. - Really? 671 00:47:46,103 --> 00:47:48,771 Why do you need to take a stupid test? 672 00:47:49,565 --> 00:47:52,608 So I can get a diploma. So I can teach. 673 00:47:53,318 --> 00:47:55,820 You don't need a diploma to teach. 674 00:47:56,446 --> 00:47:57,863 You're probably right. 675 00:47:57,948 --> 00:48:00,741 - Avis says the same thing. - Who is Avis? 676 00:48:00,826 --> 00:48:04,829 My friend, Avis De Voto, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 677 00:48:05,163 --> 00:48:06,914 She's very wise. 678 00:48:07,082 --> 00:48:11,377 But I can't help it. I want a diploma. 679 00:48:12,504 --> 00:48:15,172 I am very conventional. 680 00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:20,845 I don't know what to do. 681 00:48:21,597 --> 00:48:26,601 Well, why don't you write to the horrible Madame Brassart... 682 00:48:26,685 --> 00:48:27,977 and threaten her? 683 00:48:28,061 --> 00:48:29,645 Threaten her? With what? 684 00:48:29,730 --> 00:48:31,981 The United States of America. 685 00:48:32,065 --> 00:48:33,274 Yes! 686 00:48:33,358 --> 00:48:36,360 Tell her the American ambassador personally wants you... 687 00:48:36,445 --> 00:48:38,362 to take the examination. 688 00:48:38,447 --> 00:48:40,531 No, no, no, no, no, no. 689 00:48:40,616 --> 00:48:43,117 I couldn't do that. Heavens, no! 690 00:48:43,201 --> 00:48:46,912 The American ambassador. Hardly even know the man. 691 00:48:47,581 --> 00:48:48,956 Of course you can. 692 00:48:49,041 --> 00:48:51,125 Dear Madame Brassart, 693 00:48:51,585 --> 00:48:54,211 everyone at the American embassy, 694 00:48:54,296 --> 00:48:57,882 including my dear friend the ambassador, 695 00:48:57,966 --> 00:49:03,638 will be very surprised if I'm not allowed to take my examination. 696 00:49:03,722 --> 00:49:05,890 You will write the recipes... 697 00:49:06,475 --> 00:49:09,560 for oeufs mollets. Cotelettes de veau en surprise, 698 00:49:09,645 --> 00:49:12,063 et crême renversée au caramel. 699 00:49:13,607 --> 00:49:18,277 Cotelettes de veau en surprise. 700 00:49:19,905 --> 00:49:24,575 I had no idea what veal en surprise was. None. 701 00:49:24,660 --> 00:49:29,997 Cooked it in class. It's a veal chop with mushrooms in a bag. 702 00:49:30,082 --> 00:49:33,250 A paper bag. That's the surprise. 703 00:49:33,335 --> 00:49:35,628 You open the bag, surprise! 704 00:49:36,797 --> 00:49:42,259 Veal and mushrooms, it's just I've never flunked a test in my entire life. 705 00:49:42,344 --> 00:49:47,264 - I am an A student. - You can ask to take it again. 706 00:49:51,603 --> 00:49:53,938 - I can? - Of course. 707 00:49:54,022 --> 00:49:57,108 Meanwhile, you can come teach with us. 708 00:49:59,569 --> 00:50:00,653 Gosh! 709 00:50:01,113 --> 00:50:04,782 Is it true you plan to teach? 710 00:50:04,866 --> 00:50:08,452 Yes, we're going to teach Americans in Paris how to cook. 711 00:50:09,037 --> 00:50:14,959 Madame Child, I must tell you, you have no real talent for cooking. 712 00:50:15,961 --> 00:50:20,423 But the Americans will never know the difference. 713 00:50:31,226 --> 00:50:35,271 We are, I am sorry to say, entering aspics. 714 00:50:36,022 --> 00:50:39,900 An aspic is sort of a beef-flavored Jell-O mold. 715 00:50:39,985 --> 00:50:41,652 Doesn't that sound delicious? 716 00:50:42,195 --> 00:50:44,739 I can't imagine why no one makes them anymore. 717 00:50:44,823 --> 00:50:46,323 You begin with a calf's foot, 718 00:50:46,408 --> 00:50:49,577 which I am in possession of thanks to my sainted husband, 719 00:50:49,661 --> 00:50:53,581 and you boil it until your kitchen smells like a tannery. 720 00:50:54,374 --> 00:50:58,419 And then it gels in the refrigerator and you flip it onto a plate. 721 00:50:58,754 --> 00:51:01,756 Which, according to Julia Child, is supposed to be easy. 722 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:06,093 And all I can say about that, no offense intended, Julia, is... 723 00:51:06,845 --> 00:51:08,095 the bitch lied. 724 00:51:09,389 --> 00:51:10,848 Shit. 725 00:51:14,269 --> 00:51:16,896 - Shit! - How many more aspics are there? 726 00:51:17,439 --> 00:51:18,606 Seven. 727 00:51:19,649 --> 00:51:21,567 No one will know if you don't do them. 728 00:51:21,651 --> 00:51:24,779 It's not like there's, like, the Aspic Police or something. 729 00:51:24,863 --> 00:51:26,322 You could lie. 730 00:51:26,406 --> 00:51:28,657 I can't. I just can't. 731 00:51:28,742 --> 00:51:32,787 Julia will know. It's like she's watching me. I'm under her influence. 732 00:51:32,871 --> 00:51:36,040 I'm becoming a much better person because of her. 733 00:51:36,374 --> 00:51:39,084 Yuck! The sink! Look at this! 734 00:51:42,506 --> 00:51:45,424 I hate it here! Did you put something down the sink? 735 00:51:45,509 --> 00:51:46,467 You hate it here? 736 00:51:46,551 --> 00:51:49,804 How am I supposed to cook anything in this kitchen? 737 00:51:49,888 --> 00:51:54,183 It's no wonder that my mold fell apart. I don't suppose we have any Drano. 738 00:51:54,267 --> 00:51:56,268 Not unless you bought it. 739 00:51:56,895 --> 00:51:59,480 I do all of this and I'm supposed to buy Drano, too? 740 00:51:59,564 --> 00:52:03,400 Right now, you are so not under the influence of Julia Child. 741 00:52:06,822 --> 00:52:11,659 What if I don't make my deadline, Eric? I'll have wasted a whole year of my life. 742 00:52:11,743 --> 00:52:14,954 I used to be thin and now I'm getting fat. 743 00:52:15,038 --> 00:52:16,247 - Fat? - On top of which, 744 00:52:16,331 --> 00:52:17,832 I have to bone a whole duck. 745 00:52:17,916 --> 00:52:20,000 - When? - At some point. 746 00:52:20,085 --> 00:52:23,254 - Can you even conceive of boning a duck? - No, I can't. 747 00:52:23,338 --> 00:52:25,130 Of course you can't. 748 00:52:28,426 --> 00:52:31,637 I'm sure you all remember, because it was only a few days ago, 749 00:52:31,721 --> 00:52:34,098 that I had a meltdown over my aspic... 750 00:52:34,182 --> 00:52:37,852 and vowed to transform myself into a better human being. 751 00:52:39,187 --> 00:52:42,898 And then I was trussing the poulet rôti à la normande, 752 00:52:42,983 --> 00:52:46,610 which is roast chicken stuffed with chicken livers and cream cheese, 753 00:52:46,695 --> 00:52:51,156 and it fell on the floor and the stuffing fell out into a big gooey mess. 754 00:52:52,367 --> 00:52:55,327 So, long story short, another meltdown. 755 00:52:55,412 --> 00:52:56,912 This is crazy. 756 00:52:57,289 --> 00:52:58,706 Worse than the last. 757 00:53:01,126 --> 00:53:03,294 I can't even truss. 758 00:53:03,962 --> 00:53:07,882 And I cried like a small, emotionally disturbed child. 759 00:53:08,758 --> 00:53:10,301 I'm a mess. 760 00:53:16,516 --> 00:53:18,517 I got it. I got it. 761 00:53:19,644 --> 00:53:20,728 Hello? 762 00:53:22,731 --> 00:53:24,189 Yeah, who's this? 763 00:53:27,027 --> 00:53:28,402 Can you hold on just one second? 764 00:53:28,486 --> 00:53:32,323 I'm not sure if she's here. She might've stepped out. Hold on. 765 00:53:38,079 --> 00:53:42,082 Hey, it's a reporter from The Christian Science Monitor. 766 00:53:42,167 --> 00:53:44,293 He wants to write about you. 767 00:53:47,005 --> 00:53:48,255 He does? 768 00:53:48,340 --> 00:53:51,425 I should tell him to call back, right? 769 00:53:51,509 --> 00:53:53,719 No, no, I'll take it. 770 00:53:58,683 --> 00:53:59,850 Hello? 771 00:54:01,561 --> 00:54:02,603 Yes? 772 00:54:03,772 --> 00:54:06,106 You want to bring who to dinner? 773 00:54:07,734 --> 00:54:11,111 No, of course, I know who that is. I know exactly who that is. 774 00:54:11,196 --> 00:54:12,863 Who? Who, who, who, who? 775 00:54:14,449 --> 00:54:17,284 That would be great, that would be completely amazing. 776 00:54:17,369 --> 00:54:18,661 Goodbye. 777 00:54:19,371 --> 00:54:22,539 - Who? - Guess who's coming to dinner? 778 00:54:23,208 --> 00:54:24,625 Oh, my God. 779 00:54:26,461 --> 00:54:28,545 To Les Trois Gourmandes. 780 00:54:29,214 --> 00:54:31,048 One for all and all for one. 781 00:54:32,175 --> 00:54:33,217 Yes! 782 00:54:34,219 --> 00:54:37,346 All right. I had such a horrible time... 783 00:54:37,430 --> 00:54:41,809 converting these recipes from the metric system. 784 00:54:41,893 --> 00:54:45,729 - Measurements do not matter. - Oh, but they do! 785 00:54:46,731 --> 00:54:49,149 They absolutely do. 786 00:54:49,234 --> 00:54:50,651 This is one of the biggest arguments... 787 00:54:50,735 --> 00:54:53,153 Louisette and I had when we worked on our cookbook. 788 00:54:53,238 --> 00:54:55,239 Which is finally finished. 789 00:54:55,323 --> 00:54:59,660 Sent off to the publisher. Soon Simca and I will be famous. 790 00:54:59,744 --> 00:55:02,496 We'll be the next Mrs. Joy of Cooking. 791 00:55:03,790 --> 00:55:07,584 Maybe. All right. Well, let's try. Let's just give it a... 792 00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,254 Can I help? 793 00:55:15,593 --> 00:55:17,553 Yeah. It is mieux. 794 00:55:20,056 --> 00:55:24,810 So, yes. They're early. Americans! 795 00:55:25,186 --> 00:55:30,774 Dear Dorothy, your sister, Julia, is now a cooking teacher. 796 00:55:30,859 --> 00:55:35,112 We have three students who pay $2 a class. 797 00:55:35,196 --> 00:55:38,782 Barely enough to cover the cost of the food, but who cares? 798 00:55:38,867 --> 00:55:43,829 Simca, Louisette, and I are Les Trois Gourmandes. 799 00:55:43,997 --> 00:55:47,374 Although sometimes we are only Les Deux Gourmandes 800 00:55:47,459 --> 00:55:50,961 because Louisette turns out to have headaches 801 00:55:51,046 --> 00:55:55,591 and doctor's appointments she schedules during class. 802 00:55:55,675 --> 00:55:57,718 I have a little headache. 803 00:55:59,345 --> 00:56:02,598 You'll meet them both when you come here next month, 804 00:56:02,682 --> 00:56:06,393 unless, of course, Louisette is having a stomachache. 805 00:56:06,478 --> 00:56:12,024 Perfection. And even if it isn't, never apologize. 806 00:56:12,108 --> 00:56:15,360 No excuses! No explanations. 807 00:56:16,237 --> 00:56:19,323 Louisette abandoned us, another stomachache. 808 00:56:19,407 --> 00:56:20,908 And the day before that, 809 00:56:20,992 --> 00:56:25,579 she left class before we even finished making the chocolate Bavarian cream. 810 00:56:25,955 --> 00:56:30,667 I can't believe that's the only time her dentist could see her. 811 00:56:30,752 --> 00:56:33,128 Keep an eye out, we don't want to miss Dorothy. 812 00:56:33,213 --> 00:56:35,589 It's impossible to miss your sister. 813 00:56:39,177 --> 00:56:41,178 I don't see her! 814 00:56:43,681 --> 00:56:46,517 - There she is. - Dorothy! 815 00:56:51,606 --> 00:56:54,691 Hi, Julia! I missed you! 816 00:56:54,776 --> 00:56:56,110 So good to see... 817 00:56:56,194 --> 00:56:58,112 - Paul! - Hi. Hi, sweetie. 818 00:56:58,196 --> 00:57:01,907 I've had an adventure on the ocean liner! 819 00:57:01,991 --> 00:57:05,119 - I didn't get sick once! - Good girl! How about your legs? 820 00:57:05,203 --> 00:57:08,372 People were dropping like flies all around me! 821 00:57:10,917 --> 00:57:13,710 - Look. - Oh, my goodness. 822 00:57:13,795 --> 00:57:15,462 Look at that. 823 00:57:17,298 --> 00:57:23,595 All I think about all day is food and then I dream about it all night. 824 00:57:24,556 --> 00:57:26,348 It is true, she's obsessed. 825 00:57:26,432 --> 00:57:29,101 If I didn't sit in the kitchen, I'd never see her. 826 00:57:29,227 --> 00:57:34,189 Last week, I dreamed that I made cassoulet for Dad, 827 00:57:34,732 --> 00:57:37,151 and he hated it, of course. 828 00:57:37,235 --> 00:57:39,653 He doesn't understand any of this. 829 00:57:39,737 --> 00:57:41,572 I almost feel sorry for him. 830 00:57:41,656 --> 00:57:44,741 He wanted so much for us to stay in Pasadena, 831 00:57:44,826 --> 00:57:47,661 marry Republicans, and breed like rabbits. 832 00:57:48,079 --> 00:57:50,706 - Why didn't we? - Too tall. 833 00:57:50,790 --> 00:57:52,499 Let's face it, it's true. 834 00:57:52,584 --> 00:57:55,335 From the beginning, you just don't fit in. Literally. 835 00:57:55,420 --> 00:57:58,213 - So then you don't. - I know, it's true. 836 00:57:58,298 --> 00:58:01,341 Do not bait Father about politics when he comes. 837 00:58:01,426 --> 00:58:03,844 - No. - Or he won't pick up the check. 838 00:58:03,928 --> 00:58:06,972 - He won't, will he? - I can't make any promises. 839 00:58:07,056 --> 00:58:10,017 - He loves Senator McCarthy. - Oh, I know. 840 00:58:10,101 --> 00:58:11,268 - Pasadena. - Pasadena. 841 00:58:11,352 --> 00:58:12,436 Jinx. 842 00:58:20,236 --> 00:58:22,279 Dort, do you have... You have the Brie. 843 00:58:22,363 --> 00:58:23,989 - Is this the Brie? - Yes. Yes, that's the Brie. 844 00:58:24,073 --> 00:58:27,075 Is that not the most wonderful cheese you ever had in your life? 845 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:28,994 - Yes! - Yes. 846 00:58:29,078 --> 00:58:30,746 The answer's yes. 847 00:58:35,001 --> 00:58:40,255 I got the chef at Chez la Mère Michel to give me the recipe for beurre blanc. 848 00:58:40,340 --> 00:58:42,674 Beurre bianc. What's beurre bianc? 849 00:58:42,759 --> 00:58:46,428 - Butter in a white wine vinegar reduction. - I love butter. 850 00:58:47,263 --> 00:58:49,431 You whisk them together, 851 00:58:49,515 --> 00:58:54,186 and the acid in the vinegar works on the milk solids in the butter... 852 00:58:54,270 --> 00:58:57,397 so that the butter, instead of melting, becomes this... 853 00:58:57,482 --> 00:59:00,567 creamy, light, frothy, 854 00:59:00,652 --> 00:59:04,488 with kind of a fantastic subtle kind of... 855 00:59:05,156 --> 00:59:06,323 Tangy. 856 00:59:07,158 --> 00:59:08,909 It has a tanginess. 857 00:59:09,535 --> 00:59:10,911 Tanginess? 858 00:59:11,162 --> 00:59:12,329 Yes. 859 00:59:13,331 --> 00:59:14,831 Well, that's... 860 00:59:16,793 --> 00:59:18,585 That's who I married. 861 00:59:19,462 --> 00:59:21,255 Anyway, 862 00:59:21,339 --> 00:59:26,009 you serve it on fish and it's splendid. I'm going to make it for you. 863 00:59:26,094 --> 00:59:27,803 - That'll be divine. - Yeah. 864 00:59:27,887 --> 00:59:30,389 And, Dort, we're going to throw you a party. 865 00:59:31,849 --> 00:59:34,476 - Really? - Very exciting. 866 00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,771 By the way, there's a man that I want to introduce you to. 867 00:59:37,855 --> 00:59:39,606 I think you'll really... 868 00:59:39,691 --> 00:59:40,941 He's... 869 00:59:42,026 --> 00:59:43,360 Tall. He's very tall. 870 00:59:43,444 --> 00:59:45,862 - Pardon? - Tall. He's very. 871 00:59:45,947 --> 00:59:48,240 - Extremely tall. - I'm extremely tall. 872 00:59:49,367 --> 00:59:51,910 - But he's even taller, so that's good. - He is even taller. 873 00:59:51,995 --> 00:59:53,036 Well, that's good. 874 01:00:04,215 --> 01:00:05,549 All right. 875 01:00:06,968 --> 01:00:08,427 Pretty good. 876 01:00:12,765 --> 01:00:13,890 But not great. 877 01:00:28,656 --> 01:00:31,408 Hello, ladies. Anybody want anything? 878 01:00:31,784 --> 01:00:32,909 Yes. 879 01:00:32,994 --> 01:00:35,662 Help yourself. The tapenade is marvelous. 880 01:00:35,747 --> 01:00:37,581 Julia, there you are. 881 01:00:39,208 --> 01:00:40,459 John! 882 01:00:41,419 --> 01:00:42,544 There you are. 883 01:00:42,628 --> 01:00:44,755 Now, where is this sister of yours? 884 01:00:44,839 --> 01:00:47,007 She's right over there. Hi, John. 885 01:00:47,091 --> 01:00:48,800 - Hi, Paul. - There. 886 01:00:50,928 --> 01:00:52,512 So we've told her a lot about you. 887 01:00:52,597 --> 01:00:54,890 Well, I don't want to interrupt her conversation. 888 01:00:54,974 --> 01:00:58,477 With Ivan Cousins? They just met. 889 01:00:58,686 --> 01:01:02,105 I can't imagine Dorothy running off with Ivan Cousins. 890 01:01:40,728 --> 01:01:42,354 Dearly beloved... 891 01:01:56,702 --> 01:01:58,537 John, this is lovely. 892 01:01:58,621 --> 01:02:01,415 I've never been to a wedding like this before. 893 01:02:01,499 --> 01:02:02,958 Here, Julia. 894 01:02:04,210 --> 01:02:07,003 - What a beautiful wedding. - Thanks, Pops. 895 01:02:07,338 --> 01:02:10,549 I am not enthusiastic about this marriage. 896 01:02:11,259 --> 01:02:14,761 Well, you weren't very enthusiastic about ours, either. 897 01:02:14,846 --> 01:02:16,012 True. 898 01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,225 How are things at the embassy, Paul? 899 01:02:20,893 --> 01:02:23,687 Fine. Thank you, Phila. Thank you. 900 01:02:24,230 --> 01:02:28,942 Well, not fine, really, because they've cut our library allowance by 90%. 901 01:02:29,610 --> 01:02:32,946 It seems that Senator McCarthy has very long arms. 902 01:02:33,030 --> 01:02:35,449 Senator McCarthy is a man who knows his mind. 903 01:02:35,533 --> 01:02:38,785 I admire a man who knows his mind. 904 01:02:39,662 --> 01:02:43,707 Well, we know lots of people in Washington who have lost their jobs, 905 01:02:43,791 --> 01:02:47,627 after years in government service, for no reason whatsoever. 906 01:02:47,712 --> 01:02:52,382 And Paul had to make a list of every single book in the embassy library. 907 01:02:52,884 --> 01:02:56,261 Surely you're not suggesting that the French government is any better. 908 01:02:56,345 --> 01:02:58,638 - And... - Shall we dance? 909 01:02:58,723 --> 01:03:00,557 Come on, dance with me. 910 01:03:00,641 --> 01:03:01,975 Excuse us. 911 01:03:03,227 --> 01:03:06,563 You said you didn't want to talk about it, then you went and talked about it. 912 01:03:06,647 --> 01:03:07,981 I know, I never learn. 913 01:03:49,524 --> 01:03:51,399 Where's my big sprig? 914 01:03:54,111 --> 01:03:56,238 Up here, whipping away. 915 01:03:57,156 --> 01:04:00,992 And for dinner, mayonnaise? 916 01:04:04,372 --> 01:04:07,374 - That's good. - That is good, isn't it? 917 01:04:07,458 --> 01:04:11,503 - Very. From your sister. - I'm going to send this recipe to Avis. 918 01:04:11,587 --> 01:04:13,630 I'm very excited about it. 919 01:04:14,465 --> 01:04:18,301 - I think it's a breakthrough. - Well, it tastes like it. 920 01:04:31,357 --> 01:04:33,149 Dorothy is pregnant. 921 01:04:38,281 --> 01:04:39,322 Paul. 922 01:04:42,243 --> 01:04:45,120 Isn't that wonderful? 923 01:04:47,456 --> 01:04:48,498 Yes. 924 01:04:55,006 --> 01:04:58,008 Okay. 925 01:04:58,634 --> 01:05:00,510 - I'm so happy. - I know. 926 01:05:03,848 --> 01:05:05,056 I know. 927 01:05:06,058 --> 01:05:11,730 If you warm the bowl slightly before you beat in the egg yolk, 928 01:05:11,814 --> 01:05:13,690 it changes everything. 929 01:05:14,859 --> 01:05:19,696 Foolproof mayonnaise. Absolutely foolproof. 930 01:05:23,284 --> 01:05:24,784 I typed it up. 931 01:05:30,833 --> 01:05:34,544 - You disagree? - About the mayonnaise? Not at all. 932 01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:36,838 I'm sure you're exactly right. 933 01:05:36,922 --> 01:05:42,260 Scientific workability. That's my motto. 934 01:05:44,013 --> 01:05:45,180 Julia. 935 01:05:46,182 --> 01:05:47,891 We have a little problem. 936 01:05:48,559 --> 01:05:51,853 - Our editor... - For our cookbook. 937 01:05:51,937 --> 01:05:54,356 ...thinks our book is not in English. 938 01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:56,566 But your book is in English. 939 01:05:57,068 --> 01:05:59,361 They are giving it a rejection. 940 01:05:59,862 --> 01:06:03,698 But they suggest that if we are continuing with it, 941 01:06:04,825 --> 01:06:07,827 we should get a collaborator who could take what we have... 942 01:06:07,912 --> 01:06:10,622 and make it work for American cooks. 943 01:06:13,626 --> 01:06:16,127 Would you do it, Julia? 944 01:06:18,005 --> 01:06:19,923 Would I do it? 945 01:06:24,970 --> 01:06:26,054 Yes. 946 01:06:29,141 --> 01:06:34,270 We are now going to play a round of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." 947 01:06:34,730 --> 01:06:38,817 This Wednesday, I am going to be playing host to a distinguished guest. 948 01:06:38,901 --> 01:06:40,151 Clue number one. 949 01:06:41,529 --> 01:06:44,531 The degree of separation between Julia Child and me... 950 01:06:44,615 --> 01:06:48,034 is about to shrink by a factor of about a thousand. 951 01:06:48,119 --> 01:06:49,160 A thousand. 952 01:06:49,245 --> 01:06:53,331 In answer to your questions, no, it is not Amanda Hesser of "The New York Times"... 953 01:06:53,416 --> 01:06:55,959 or Nigella Lawson, or Ina Garten. 954 01:06:56,502 --> 01:06:58,294 But here's clue number two, 955 01:06:58,796 --> 01:07:01,256 I will be making boeuf bourguignon, 956 01:07:01,340 --> 01:07:04,217 which was the first dish our distinguished guest cooked... 957 01:07:04,301 --> 01:07:07,971 upon reading Mastering the Art of French Cooking for the first time. 958 01:07:08,055 --> 01:07:11,391 Boeuf bourguignon. Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon. 959 01:07:11,475 --> 01:07:16,271 Well, since no one guessed my mystery guest, I'm going to have to tell you all. 960 01:07:16,605 --> 01:07:19,315 It's Judith Jones, the editor who's responsible... 961 01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,777 for getting Julia's cookbook published way back when, 962 01:07:22,862 --> 01:07:26,489 the woman who recognized history in an onionskin manuscript. 963 01:07:26,574 --> 01:07:29,784 She's older and probably not used to eating at 10:00 at night, 964 01:07:29,869 --> 01:07:34,330 which is why I'm being diligent about this and making the stew the night before. 965 01:07:34,415 --> 01:07:36,166 And as I cook it, 966 01:07:36,250 --> 01:07:40,170 I almost feel as if Julia and I are communicating over space and time... 967 01:07:40,254 --> 01:07:42,797 on a deep, spiritual, mystical level. 968 01:07:42,882 --> 01:07:46,676 Although, mostly, I'm just talking to myself. 969 01:07:47,511 --> 01:07:50,805 - How long does it take to cook? - Two and a half hours. 970 01:07:56,771 --> 01:07:58,021 Welcome. 971 01:07:58,731 --> 01:08:00,732 I'm Julia Child. 972 01:08:01,484 --> 01:08:06,362 And today we're going to make a holiday feast, or les fètes d'holiday. 973 01:08:06,447 --> 01:08:11,284 And we're going to start with half-boned chicken or poularde demi-désossée. 974 01:08:11,619 --> 01:08:16,998 Now, first, remove the liver and fry it up with some onions for a little snack... 975 01:08:17,082 --> 01:08:21,169 or perhaps a delicious liverwurst which you can spread on a cracker, 976 01:08:21,253 --> 01:08:24,380 a Ritz cracker, a saltine. 977 01:08:24,757 --> 01:08:25,965 Saltine. 978 01:08:26,050 --> 01:08:29,636 Or if you have a pet, a cat or a dog, they love liver. 979 01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:31,054 Save the liver. 980 01:08:31,138 --> 01:08:33,640 - Save the liver. - Save the liver. 981 01:08:33,724 --> 01:08:34,849 Now, you place the chicken on its stomach 982 01:08:34,934 --> 01:08:38,895 and cut along the backbone to the pope's nose, like so. 983 01:08:39,063 --> 01:08:40,522 Crack! 984 01:08:41,816 --> 01:08:44,442 Now I've done it, I've cut the dickens out of my finger. 985 01:08:44,527 --> 01:08:46,945 Well, I'm glad, in a way, this happened. 986 01:08:47,029 --> 01:08:50,657 You know, accidents do occur from time to time in the kitchen. 987 01:08:50,741 --> 01:08:53,910 We've never really discussed what to do. 988 01:08:53,994 --> 01:08:56,704 First, you must stop the bleeding. 989 01:08:58,332 --> 01:09:02,043 The best way is with direct pressure on the apron, like so. 990 01:09:03,295 --> 01:09:05,797 You want to raise your hand over your head. 991 01:09:05,881 --> 01:09:10,260 I recommend natural coagulants, such as chicken liver. 992 01:09:10,886 --> 01:09:13,930 Another reason not to throw away the liver. 993 01:09:15,057 --> 01:09:18,935 Oh, God, it's throbbing! A tourniquet, that's it. 994 01:09:19,019 --> 01:09:20,812 Why are you all spinning? 995 01:09:20,938 --> 01:09:24,649 Well, I think I'm going to go to sleep now. Bon appétit. 996 01:10:09,445 --> 01:10:12,322 No, no, no! 997 01:10:23,918 --> 01:10:28,588 Well, it's just a big, dry collection of recipes. 998 01:10:28,672 --> 01:10:31,090 It doesn't work at all. 999 01:10:31,175 --> 01:10:35,386 I'm just gonna have to throw most of it out and start all over again! 1000 01:10:37,348 --> 01:10:39,849 This has got to be a cookbook 1001 01:10:39,934 --> 01:10:44,687 that makes French cooking accessible to Americans who do not have cooks. 1002 01:10:45,898 --> 01:10:48,191 Who are servantless. 1003 01:10:49,985 --> 01:10:51,527 Is that a word? 1004 01:10:51,695 --> 01:10:54,322 Servantless. 1005 01:10:55,366 --> 01:10:57,200 I think it is a word. 1006 01:10:58,369 --> 01:10:59,661 Julia? 1007 01:11:02,331 --> 01:11:07,585 - What if we had to leave Paris? - Why would we have to leave Paris? 1008 01:11:08,128 --> 01:11:11,172 Because my assignment was for four years. 1009 01:11:11,256 --> 01:11:14,092 So then we still have time. 1010 01:11:14,885 --> 01:11:16,386 Eight months. 1011 01:11:18,222 --> 01:11:23,142 And this cookbook is not something you can finish in eight months. 1012 01:11:23,227 --> 01:11:28,231 No. But two years seems possible. 1013 01:11:30,818 --> 01:11:31,985 Julia. 1014 01:11:34,947 --> 01:11:37,198 What if they transfer me someplace else? 1015 01:11:37,282 --> 01:11:39,033 Would they do that? 1016 01:11:39,743 --> 01:11:40,910 Yes. 1017 01:11:41,453 --> 01:11:43,788 They don't really care about me. 1018 01:11:45,249 --> 01:11:48,584 Paul. Of course they do. 1019 01:11:51,255 --> 01:11:52,922 They don't, really. 1020 01:11:54,591 --> 01:11:56,592 Well, if we can't stay in Paris, 1021 01:11:56,677 --> 01:11:59,846 then I'll just mail the pages to Louisette and Simca... 1022 01:11:59,930 --> 01:12:01,514 and they can mail them back to me. 1023 01:12:01,598 --> 01:12:06,227 That's why they invented the mail system and carbon paper and onion-skin copies, 1024 01:12:06,311 --> 01:12:09,272 or I can just jump on the train to Paris... 1025 01:12:09,356 --> 01:12:14,235 whenever the three of us absolutely have to work together, you know. 1026 01:12:14,319 --> 01:12:19,115 Or the two of us, actually, because as we know, Louisette does next to nothing. 1027 01:12:20,826 --> 01:12:23,786 But we would still be somewhere in Europe. 1028 01:12:23,871 --> 01:12:25,705 Don't you think? 1029 01:12:25,789 --> 01:12:30,668 It's very hard to say, given the current political climate. 1030 01:12:33,422 --> 01:12:36,424 Senator McCarthy does not like people like us. 1031 01:12:37,134 --> 01:12:39,302 Us? Why? What have we done? 1032 01:12:41,221 --> 01:12:44,307 We haven't done anything. That's not the point. 1033 01:12:44,975 --> 01:12:49,729 The point is, we were in China. And that's practically sufficient. 1034 01:12:49,813 --> 01:12:51,981 Well, meanwhile, we're still here. 1035 01:12:52,066 --> 01:12:54,692 - Yes, we are. You're right. - Yes. 1036 01:12:55,444 --> 01:12:57,195 Here's to the book. 1037 01:12:58,072 --> 01:13:00,907 French Cooking for All! 1038 01:13:02,826 --> 01:13:07,955 Or French Home Cooking. Do you like that? Which one do you like? 1039 01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:09,665 I like them both. 1040 01:13:10,167 --> 01:13:17,006 Dear Avis, enclosed is part of our cookbook from the chapter on sauces. 1041 01:13:17,299 --> 01:13:20,843 Naturally, it must not be shown to anyone... 1042 01:13:21,011 --> 01:13:24,639 unless you are sure they are not, never have been, 1043 01:13:24,723 --> 01:13:28,601 and won't have anything to do with the publishing business. 1044 01:13:28,685 --> 01:13:31,854 There are people who would love nothing more... 1045 01:13:31,939 --> 01:13:35,316 than to steal this hollandaise recipe. 1046 01:13:37,319 --> 01:13:40,863 We're late! Do you suppose she'll be there? 1047 01:13:40,948 --> 01:13:44,534 Louisette? Of course she'll be there. It's at her house. 1048 01:13:44,993 --> 01:13:47,370 I was making a little joke. 1049 01:13:48,205 --> 01:13:51,499 - What's this about, anyway? - Louisette wouldn't tell me. 1050 01:13:51,583 --> 01:13:53,876 She said it was a surprise. 1051 01:13:54,044 --> 01:13:58,131 Maybe she's dropping out of the project. That would be heavenly. 1052 01:13:58,215 --> 01:14:00,133 - Julia. - Well, it would. 1053 01:14:05,556 --> 01:14:10,351 My friends, this is Irma Rombauer. 1054 01:14:11,436 --> 01:14:13,521 Mrs. Joy? 1055 01:14:14,815 --> 01:14:18,609 The first edition of the "Joy of Cooking" took me a year to write. 1056 01:14:18,694 --> 01:14:22,780 Only a year? Including testing the recipes? 1057 01:14:23,490 --> 01:14:28,327 Well, I didn't really test all the recipes. There were so many of them. 1058 01:14:28,412 --> 01:14:32,582 And then I found a publisher, a small printer in St. Louis. 1059 01:14:33,125 --> 01:14:35,042 How much money did he pay you? 1060 01:14:35,127 --> 01:14:38,546 I paid him. $3,000. 1061 01:14:38,630 --> 01:14:42,216 - $3,000? - A small fortune. 1062 01:14:42,301 --> 01:14:46,637 But I had a little life insurance money because my husband... 1063 01:14:48,098 --> 01:14:50,349 - No! - He killed himself? 1064 01:14:50,434 --> 01:14:51,767 Yes. 1065 01:14:51,852 --> 01:14:55,146 And I thought, "Well, what else am I gonna do with the insurance money?" 1066 01:14:55,230 --> 01:14:57,356 And then, the book began to sell... 1067 01:14:57,441 --> 01:15:01,277 and Bobbs-Merrill picked it up, so now I had a real publisher. 1068 01:15:01,361 --> 01:15:03,279 And they gave you some money? 1069 01:15:03,363 --> 01:15:04,572 Absolutely not. 1070 01:15:04,656 --> 01:15:08,201 They swindled me. They stole my copyright, 1071 01:15:08,285 --> 01:15:11,370 and now there's a new edition, and guess what? 1072 01:15:11,455 --> 01:15:15,124 - What? - The index is a complete calamity. 1073 01:15:15,209 --> 01:15:20,087 If you're looking for City Chicken, you're not gonna find it under "C". 1074 01:15:20,172 --> 01:15:21,380 Really? 1075 01:15:22,174 --> 01:15:24,634 It's under "Drumsticks, Mock." 1076 01:15:25,928 --> 01:15:27,303 No. 1077 01:15:28,472 --> 01:15:31,015 All she wanted to talk about... 1078 01:15:31,725 --> 01:15:35,228 was how her publisher had cheated her... 1079 01:15:35,312 --> 01:15:38,522 out of thousands of dollars in royalties. 1080 01:15:38,607 --> 01:15:40,942 It just made me realize this... 1081 01:15:41,568 --> 01:15:45,488 Not going to be simple, this getting published business. 1082 01:15:45,572 --> 01:15:47,657 This is from Avis, for you. 1083 01:15:54,706 --> 01:15:56,249 Oh, my. Well. 1084 01:16:00,170 --> 01:16:02,129 What does she say now? 1085 01:16:03,465 --> 01:16:06,634 Avis loves my sauce chapter. 1086 01:16:06,718 --> 01:16:08,803 That's wonderful, darling. 1087 01:16:09,179 --> 01:16:10,346 Oh, no. 1088 01:16:11,807 --> 01:16:17,561 She showed it to someone. Which I specifically asked her not to do. 1089 01:16:18,021 --> 01:16:22,441 She showed it to an editor at "Houghton Mifflin" in Boston, 1090 01:16:22,526 --> 01:16:27,488 and the Boston editor showed it to the head of publishing and... 1091 01:16:27,572 --> 01:16:28,948 Paul! Paul! 1092 01:16:29,366 --> 01:16:32,076 Yes? What, what, what? What, what? 1093 01:16:32,953 --> 01:16:34,412 They want to... 1094 01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,331 They want to publish our book. 1095 01:16:37,874 --> 01:16:39,750 That's great news! 1096 01:16:39,835 --> 01:16:42,295 And they want to give us an advance. 1097 01:16:42,379 --> 01:16:43,546 How much? 1098 01:16:43,630 --> 01:16:47,675 - $250! - No. 1099 01:16:47,801 --> 01:16:51,554 And when the book is finished, $500 more! 1100 01:16:51,638 --> 01:16:53,097 I'm so proud of you. 1101 01:16:53,181 --> 01:16:55,558 The editor loves the book! 1102 01:16:57,811 --> 01:17:00,229 She just loves it. 1103 01:17:04,609 --> 01:17:08,112 "So with the smell of burned stew still in the air, 1104 01:17:08,196 --> 01:17:11,490 I woke up dying of stomach cramps. 1105 01:17:11,575 --> 01:17:13,034 I called in sick." 1106 01:17:13,118 --> 01:17:15,828 And went back to bed for several hours. 1107 01:17:16,413 --> 01:17:19,665 Put it in. Put it in the blog in case someone in your office reads it. 1108 01:17:19,750 --> 01:17:23,252 And went back to bed for several hours. 1109 01:17:24,504 --> 01:17:29,050 By noon, I was somehow able to straighten myself up to a standing position. 1110 01:17:29,134 --> 01:17:30,134 What are you making? 1111 01:17:30,218 --> 01:17:33,179 Bought the ingredients for boeuf bourguignon all over again. 1112 01:17:33,263 --> 01:17:34,347 Boeuf bourguignon. 1113 01:17:34,431 --> 01:17:36,182 Dragged myself home. 1114 01:17:37,059 --> 01:17:39,560 And made another boeuf bourguignon. 1115 01:17:40,937 --> 01:17:44,190 And for dessert, a raspberry Bavarian cream. 1116 01:17:45,692 --> 01:17:47,860 By the end of the day, I felt fine. 1117 01:17:47,944 --> 01:17:49,695 I was cooking dinner for a legend, 1118 01:17:49,780 --> 01:17:52,656 even though I'd never really heard of her until a few months ago. 1119 01:17:52,741 --> 01:17:55,451 Maybe she'll offer you a book contract. 1120 01:17:55,577 --> 01:17:57,203 What if she does? 1121 01:17:57,662 --> 01:18:02,124 I mean, what would that mean? That would mean I might be a writer. 1122 01:18:03,293 --> 01:18:06,128 How much money do people make for books? 1123 01:18:06,463 --> 01:18:09,632 Like an advance? I have no idea. 1124 01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:12,510 - $100,000? - Don't even say it. 1125 01:18:21,311 --> 01:18:22,478 Hello? 1126 01:18:24,189 --> 01:18:25,231 Hi. 1127 01:18:27,234 --> 01:18:31,987 I know. I know, I know. It is here, too. Cats and dogs. 1128 01:18:34,825 --> 01:18:41,080 I know. 1129 01:18:41,164 --> 01:18:42,665 Well, thanks. 1130 01:18:43,500 --> 01:18:44,583 Bye. 1131 01:18:47,671 --> 01:18:49,171 So not coming. 1132 01:18:52,634 --> 01:18:55,886 That was the guy from "The Christian Science Monitor". 1133 01:18:56,972 --> 01:18:58,556 It's raining. 1134 01:18:59,349 --> 01:19:02,810 And we live in Long Island City and she's, like, older. 1135 01:19:03,770 --> 01:19:05,354 It's mortifying. 1136 01:19:05,897 --> 01:19:08,691 But on the bright side, more stew for us. 1137 01:19:09,151 --> 01:19:12,695 Just for once, could you not look on the bright side? 1138 01:19:12,779 --> 01:19:16,532 Yeah. Well, it's not the end of the world. 1139 01:19:18,243 --> 01:19:23,289 I thought, I really did think, I just did. I thought "Book Contract." 1140 01:19:23,373 --> 01:19:25,499 Me, Judith Jones, happily ever after. 1141 01:19:25,584 --> 01:19:27,835 And then we'd have a little money... 1142 01:19:27,919 --> 01:19:31,046 and we wouldn't live over a pizzeria for the rest of our lives. 1143 01:19:31,131 --> 01:19:32,923 How am I gonna explain this? 1144 01:19:33,008 --> 01:19:37,178 My readers are gonna be really upset. They were so into it. 1145 01:19:37,262 --> 01:19:41,807 - Your readers are gonna be really upset. - I never should've told everyone. 1146 01:19:42,309 --> 01:19:43,559 They'll live. 1147 01:19:44,853 --> 01:19:46,187 Somehow, 1148 01:19:47,689 --> 01:19:51,066 your readers will live. 1149 01:19:53,904 --> 01:19:56,197 - Is it bland? - Not anymore. 1150 01:19:57,240 --> 01:19:58,240 Thank you for telling me that. 1151 01:19:58,325 --> 01:20:01,994 You almost let me feed Judith Jones bland boeuf bourguignon. 1152 01:20:02,078 --> 01:20:04,288 This is a nightmare. I told everyone she was coming. 1153 01:20:04,372 --> 01:20:05,748 They will survive. 1154 01:20:05,832 --> 01:20:08,876 And when this year's over, and I cannot wait until it is, 1155 01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:12,505 your readers will somehow get on with their lives. 1156 01:20:13,089 --> 01:20:16,342 - And I won't, is that what you're saying? - I don't know. I have no idea. 1157 01:20:16,426 --> 01:20:19,053 I mean, what's gonna happen when you're no longer the center of the universe? 1158 01:20:19,137 --> 01:20:21,013 That's just great. 1159 01:20:21,097 --> 01:20:24,808 I am finally totally engaged in something. 1160 01:20:24,893 --> 01:20:26,852 Okay, maybe I'm being a little narcissistic. 1161 01:20:26,937 --> 01:20:29,021 A little? On a scale of 10? 1162 01:20:29,814 --> 01:20:33,484 Okay, a 9.3. But what do you think a blog is? It's me, me, me day after day. 1163 01:20:33,568 --> 01:20:35,194 I thought it'd be fun. How stupid is that? 1164 01:20:35,278 --> 01:20:37,530 It just turns out to be a lot of what you call "meltdowns," 1165 01:20:37,614 --> 01:20:38,656 but they don't feel like meltdowns. 1166 01:20:38,740 --> 01:20:41,534 They feel like I'm living with a totally self-absorbed person... 1167 01:20:41,618 --> 01:20:44,078 who writes this stuff for a bunch of complete strangers. 1168 01:20:44,162 --> 01:20:46,872 And it's supposed to be a big adventure, but it's not. 1169 01:20:46,957 --> 01:20:48,707 It's our life. It's our marriage. 1170 01:20:48,792 --> 01:20:52,086 And, here, in this room, it doesn't feel like an adventure, it feels like shit. 1171 01:20:52,170 --> 01:20:54,088 - It was your idea! - I know, I'm so sorry. 1172 01:20:54,172 --> 01:20:57,675 What the hell was I thinking? And I'll tell you something else. 1173 01:20:57,759 --> 01:20:59,593 I am not a saint. 1174 01:20:59,678 --> 01:21:01,554 - Yes, you are. - No, I'm not! 1175 01:21:01,638 --> 01:21:03,305 - Yes, you are! - No, I'm not! 1176 01:21:03,390 --> 01:21:07,226 And it makes me feel like an asshole every time you say it! 1177 01:21:07,310 --> 01:21:09,562 And do not write about this in your blog. 1178 01:21:09,646 --> 01:21:11,897 - About what? - About this fight! 1179 01:21:14,025 --> 01:21:15,568 I'm outta here. 1180 01:21:34,421 --> 01:21:36,964 - You all right, Julia? - Yes, fine. 1181 01:21:37,048 --> 01:21:40,009 I'm perfectly fine. 1182 01:21:40,719 --> 01:21:44,930 Dear Avis, we finished packing today, 1183 01:21:45,015 --> 01:21:49,226 and tomorrow we leave beloved Paris for Marseilles. 1184 01:21:49,311 --> 01:21:53,731 Paul has been appointed Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the South of France. 1185 01:21:53,815 --> 01:21:58,736 I'm having a hard time pretending to be anything but devastated. 1186 01:21:59,070 --> 01:22:01,697 I'm going to go buy some bread. 1187 01:22:01,781 --> 01:22:06,869 The advantage of Marseilles is that it won't have the distractions of Paris. 1188 01:22:07,996 --> 01:22:10,539 So we'll be able to finish the book. 1189 01:22:11,666 --> 01:22:13,292 Although not on deadline. 1190 01:22:15,253 --> 01:22:17,546 At least we're still in France. 1191 01:22:21,051 --> 01:22:25,346 Dear Avis, I don't know what we've done to deserve it... 1192 01:22:25,430 --> 01:22:27,723 but here we are in Germany. 1193 01:22:28,058 --> 01:22:32,436 Actually in a suburb of Bonn called Plittersdorf on the Rhine, 1194 01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:36,398 which sounds much more picturesque than it is. 1195 01:22:36,691 --> 01:22:40,444 By the way, there is no chance we'll meet our new deadline. 1196 01:22:40,528 --> 01:22:43,947 We'll be at least two more years. 1197 01:22:45,075 --> 01:22:48,285 Meanwhile, Paul has been called to Washington. 1198 01:22:48,370 --> 01:22:50,329 We have no idea why. 1199 01:22:50,413 --> 01:22:54,375 Well, they're going to promote you, finally. They have to. 1200 01:22:54,876 --> 01:22:59,004 Well, I don't know why they have to call me back to Washington to tell me that. 1201 01:22:59,089 --> 01:23:01,507 They could just send a telex. It'd be a lot cheaper. 1202 01:23:02,592 --> 01:23:04,718 Well, they're going to reassign you, then. 1203 01:23:04,803 --> 01:23:08,222 They'll ask you whether you prefer Paris or Paris. 1204 01:23:11,476 --> 01:23:14,520 It's a possibility. It's not likely, but it is a possibility. 1205 01:23:14,604 --> 01:23:16,814 And if they are moving us back to Paris, 1206 01:23:16,898 --> 01:23:20,526 I can look for an apartment when I'm there next week. 1207 01:23:21,903 --> 01:23:23,487 Good idea, yes? 1208 01:23:24,072 --> 01:23:27,032 I promise I'll call you the minute they tell me... 1209 01:23:27,117 --> 01:23:29,868 we're being transferred back to Paris, all right? 1210 01:23:29,953 --> 01:23:31,620 All right. 1211 01:23:32,455 --> 01:23:33,914 - I know, darling. I know. - I think it could happen. 1212 01:23:33,998 --> 01:23:35,582 It could happen, I know. 1213 01:23:35,667 --> 01:23:36,875 Stay right there. That's perfect. 1214 01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:38,711 - Say cheese, ducky. - Move your hand. 1215 01:23:38,795 --> 01:23:40,629 - Good. Great. - Put your legs together, darling. 1216 01:23:41,548 --> 01:23:42,881 It's very simple. 1217 01:23:42,966 --> 01:23:46,802 We're just going to tell her she should have a smaller share of the royalties 1218 01:23:46,886 --> 01:23:53,058 because it is clear she can't put in the 40 hours a week you and I are spending on it. 1219 01:23:53,143 --> 01:23:55,394 - Sixty is more like it. Eighty. - Exactly. 1220 01:23:55,478 --> 01:24:01,525 - You and I are vaches enragees. - That's exactly what we are. Mad cows. 1221 01:24:01,818 --> 01:24:06,321 But I can't bring myself to say this to Louisette. 1222 01:24:06,948 --> 01:24:10,743 - You're going to have to do it. - I will do it. We must be cold-blooded. 1223 01:24:10,827 --> 01:24:13,996 I shall love her much more when this is settled. 1224 01:24:15,832 --> 01:24:20,586 It isn't that you're not helping to some extent. 1225 01:24:20,670 --> 01:24:22,337 But I am helping. 1226 01:24:23,006 --> 01:24:26,675 It was my idea to add peas to the coq au vin recipe. 1227 01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:29,553 We know, and that was a wonderful idea, 1228 01:24:30,221 --> 01:24:33,056 but the book has become a magnum opus. 1229 01:24:33,141 --> 01:24:35,184 But we are a team. 1230 01:24:35,852 --> 01:24:39,104 We are Les Trois Gourmandes. One for all. 1231 01:24:39,189 --> 01:24:43,734 Yes, it's absolutely true, Louisette. Yes, it's true. 1232 01:24:43,818 --> 01:24:47,696 And you have been very valuable to the project. 1233 01:24:47,781 --> 01:24:48,947 Thank you. 1234 01:24:49,032 --> 01:24:53,535 But... 1235 01:24:55,497 --> 01:24:57,498 I am getting a divorce. 1236 01:24:58,208 --> 01:25:01,335 - What? - Jean-Luc is leaving me. 1237 01:25:03,505 --> 01:25:09,885 I'm so sorry. Louisette. Just forget that I even mentioned it. 1238 01:25:10,553 --> 01:25:13,305 But it isn't fair for Louisette to get the same amount of money that we do. 1239 01:25:13,389 --> 01:25:15,808 Simca, this is not the time to discuss this. She's getting a divorce. 1240 01:25:15,892 --> 01:25:18,060 But she doesn't do the work. 1241 01:25:19,938 --> 01:25:23,315 You don't do the work, so your share should be 10%. 1242 01:25:24,192 --> 01:25:25,567 Ten percent? 1243 01:25:25,985 --> 01:25:28,028 You're not doing the work. 1244 01:25:28,238 --> 01:25:29,696 Twenty-five. 1245 01:25:30,073 --> 01:25:31,323 - Fifteen. - Twenty. 1246 01:25:31,407 --> 01:25:33,659 Eighteen and not a penny more. 1247 01:25:34,619 --> 01:25:37,287 And where it says our names, I think it should say, 1248 01:25:37,372 --> 01:25:42,417 "By Julia Child and Simone Beck, with Louisette Bertholle." 1249 01:25:43,294 --> 01:25:45,921 - "With"? - And in smaller type. 1250 01:25:46,005 --> 01:25:47,589 No, no, no, no, Simca. 1251 01:25:47,674 --> 01:25:52,553 Our names exactly the... Exactly... And alphabetical. Alphabetical. 1252 01:25:57,100 --> 01:26:00,894 But it was not even her idea to put the peas in the coq au vin. 1253 01:26:00,979 --> 01:26:04,022 - No. - But it bothers me. 1254 01:26:07,485 --> 01:26:08,694 For me? 1255 01:26:09,112 --> 01:26:14,867 Dear Avis, we've been through our own version of Kafka. 1256 01:26:14,951 --> 01:26:18,036 Paul went off to Washington, and in my innocence... 1257 01:26:18,121 --> 01:26:21,290 I thought it must be because the United States government 1258 01:26:21,374 --> 01:26:24,585 had finally realized how valuable he was. 1259 01:26:25,336 --> 01:26:29,047 Far from it. He was being investigated. 1260 01:26:30,341 --> 01:26:33,969 He spent three days being grilled in a windowless room... 1261 01:26:34,095 --> 01:26:38,932 with a foot-high stack of papers ominously sitting on the table. 1262 01:26:39,017 --> 01:26:42,311 They asked him about our friends, our books, 1263 01:26:42,395 --> 01:26:44,980 our China years, our patriotism. 1264 01:26:45,064 --> 01:26:48,901 They even asked him if he was a homosexual. 1265 01:26:48,985 --> 01:26:51,862 - Are you a homosexual, Mr. Child? - No. 1266 01:26:53,031 --> 01:26:54,990 I am not a homosexual. 1267 01:26:55,742 --> 01:26:57,826 This is not a joke. 1268 01:26:59,203 --> 01:27:01,079 I'm well aware of that. 1269 01:27:01,164 --> 01:27:06,335 He came home exonerated but thoroughly bruised. 1270 01:27:06,669 --> 01:27:08,670 Julia, it was a nightmare. 1271 01:27:11,674 --> 01:27:13,508 What am I going to do? 1272 01:27:14,052 --> 01:27:17,012 I feel like my entire life has been a waste. 1273 01:27:17,931 --> 01:27:20,265 - Paul. - I have one more posting, 1274 01:27:21,476 --> 01:27:23,769 then I'll retire and then what? 1275 01:27:28,024 --> 01:27:29,775 We'll figure it out. 1276 01:27:34,322 --> 01:27:36,949 I just don't know what it was all for. 1277 01:27:38,910 --> 01:27:40,202 You know? 1278 01:27:43,539 --> 01:27:45,707 You at least have the book. 1279 01:27:46,542 --> 01:27:48,543 Well, it's your book, too. 1280 01:27:49,337 --> 01:27:50,504 It is. 1281 01:27:52,382 --> 01:27:54,925 Without you, it wouldn't be a book. 1282 01:27:55,510 --> 01:27:58,720 Not that Simca and I'll ever be done with it. 1283 01:28:00,223 --> 01:28:03,850 - Someday you'll be done with it. - I'm beginning to wonder. 1284 01:28:21,619 --> 01:28:23,495 So to wrap things up, 1285 01:28:23,579 --> 01:28:27,541 at 6:22 last night, guess who wasn't coming to dinner? 1286 01:28:28,376 --> 01:28:29,626 That's right. 1287 01:28:29,711 --> 01:28:33,296 It began pouring down rain and Judith Jones canceled. 1288 01:28:33,381 --> 01:28:35,257 I was utterly crushed. 1289 01:28:36,718 --> 01:28:37,843 And then on top of everything, 1290 01:28:37,927 --> 01:28:41,346 I had a horrible fight with my husband and he left me. 1291 01:28:55,695 --> 01:28:59,364 The boeuf bourguignon was delloicus, not that I ate it. 1292 01:28:59,449 --> 01:29:03,660 As for the raspberry Bavarian cream, I am taking it to the office. 1293 01:29:10,376 --> 01:29:11,668 Morning. 1294 01:29:12,962 --> 01:29:14,713 Julie, could you come in here? 1295 01:29:14,797 --> 01:29:17,049 I didn't tell him, I swear. 1296 01:29:17,175 --> 01:29:18,341 Julie? 1297 01:29:23,890 --> 01:29:25,932 - Feeling better? - Much. 1298 01:29:27,977 --> 01:29:31,188 So you burned the stew? 1299 01:29:31,814 --> 01:29:35,484 But that's not why I didn't come to work. I didn't come to work because I had... 1300 01:29:35,568 --> 01:29:37,402 Stomach flu. 1301 01:29:37,487 --> 01:29:39,279 Listen, it's a free country. 1302 01:29:39,363 --> 01:29:44,493 But this little thing of yours on the Internet, I do not want to show up in it. Okay? 1303 01:29:44,994 --> 01:29:48,330 And if you don't feel like coming in to work, let me know. 1304 01:29:48,414 --> 01:29:52,667 Somebody will want this job. We're trying to do something here. 1305 01:29:54,712 --> 01:29:56,046 I'm sorry. 1306 01:29:57,590 --> 01:29:59,633 Anyone else would fire you. 1307 01:29:59,717 --> 01:30:01,843 A Republican would fire you. 1308 01:30:02,595 --> 01:30:04,304 I'm not a schmuck. 1309 01:30:10,645 --> 01:30:13,688 I'm in shock. I can't believe it. 1310 01:30:14,065 --> 01:30:18,193 You're like "The Ones." If you and Eric can't make it work, who can? 1311 01:30:18,611 --> 01:30:23,365 All sorts of people can. Just not me because I am a bitch. 1312 01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,201 I am, Sarah. I'm a bitch. 1313 01:30:27,453 --> 01:30:29,371 I know. I know you are. 1314 01:30:31,207 --> 01:30:32,958 By the way, Garth and I broke up. 1315 01:30:33,042 --> 01:30:36,628 Oh, God, I didn't even ask. I am a one-way street, just like Eric says. 1316 01:30:36,712 --> 01:30:39,214 It's okay. I wasn't in love with him. 1317 01:30:39,298 --> 01:30:41,633 Do you really think I'm a bitch? 1318 01:30:42,051 --> 01:30:44,469 - Well, yeah. - I know. 1319 01:30:44,554 --> 01:30:46,054 But who isn't? 1320 01:30:47,598 --> 01:30:48,765 Julia. 1321 01:30:50,893 --> 01:30:53,645 I've been thinking about me and Julia. 1322 01:30:53,729 --> 01:30:57,440 She was a secretary for a government agency and I am, too. 1323 01:30:57,525 --> 01:31:01,903 A really nice guy married her. A really nice guy married me. 1324 01:31:02,780 --> 01:31:04,322 Both of us were lost 1325 01:31:04,407 --> 01:31:07,909 and both of us were saved by food in some way or other. 1326 01:31:07,994 --> 01:31:13,373 So major overlaps. But let's face it, I am not Julia Child. 1327 01:31:14,125 --> 01:31:18,211 Julia Child never lost her temper just because something boiled over, 1328 01:31:18,296 --> 01:31:22,007 or collapsed in the oven, or just plain fell through. 1329 01:31:23,092 --> 01:31:26,511 And she was never horrible to her husband, I'm sure. 1330 01:31:26,596 --> 01:31:29,014 And she never behaved like, "Who has time to be married?" 1331 01:31:29,098 --> 01:31:32,601 Which is how I behave sometimes, I'm sorry to say. 1332 01:31:32,685 --> 01:31:37,022 I wish I were more like her. She deserved her husband and I don't. 1333 01:31:37,106 --> 01:31:38,732 That's the truth. 1334 01:31:39,192 --> 01:31:41,943 Well, anyway, that's the truth for now. 1335 01:31:42,028 --> 01:31:43,528 Yogurt for dinner. 1336 01:32:08,095 --> 01:32:12,474 Hi, you've reached Eric Powell at Archaeology magazine. Leave a message. 1337 01:32:13,559 --> 01:32:16,311 I hated sleeping without you last night. 1338 01:32:17,104 --> 01:32:18,688 Where are you? 1339 01:32:19,023 --> 01:32:20,398 I miss you. 1340 01:32:51,889 --> 01:32:54,933 - Hello? - Honey, is something wrong? 1341 01:32:56,185 --> 01:32:57,185 No. 1342 01:32:58,187 --> 01:33:00,188 Why would you think that? 1343 01:33:00,273 --> 01:33:02,774 Are you and Eric having some kind of problem? 1344 01:33:02,858 --> 01:33:04,109 Of course not. 1345 01:33:04,193 --> 01:33:07,028 - Is he there and you can't talk? - He's not here. 1346 01:33:07,113 --> 01:33:11,074 I just read your blog, and it was strange and uncharacteristically thoughtful. 1347 01:33:11,158 --> 01:33:12,867 - Where is he? - Out. 1348 01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:16,121 He went out to get pizza. 1349 01:33:16,372 --> 01:33:18,373 Have you stopped cooking? 1350 01:33:18,916 --> 01:33:22,544 Just temporarily. Just taking a little break from cooking. 1351 01:33:22,753 --> 01:33:23,962 Well, get back to it. 1352 01:33:24,046 --> 01:33:27,632 It's gonna be good for you to finish something for once in your life. 1353 01:33:27,717 --> 01:33:30,635 - Julia didn't give up. - Who says I'm giving up? 1354 01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:33,430 Well, I'm just saying don't. 1355 01:34:21,896 --> 01:34:22,979 Hey. 1356 01:34:25,649 --> 01:34:27,108 Are you back? 1357 01:34:27,610 --> 01:34:29,110 Please be back. 1358 01:34:31,197 --> 01:34:32,864 What's for dinner? 1359 01:34:49,215 --> 01:34:54,010 Well, Avis said she'd be here. Even if we were late. 1360 01:34:54,095 --> 01:34:56,596 Well, if she's not here, we can take a taxi. 1361 01:34:56,680 --> 01:34:58,848 They probably have taxis in Boston. 1362 01:34:58,933 --> 01:35:02,769 She'll be here. Wearing a plaid jacket. 1363 01:35:03,729 --> 01:35:06,189 That's how I'm to recognize her. 1364 01:35:06,565 --> 01:35:10,110 What do you mean, "recognize her"? Has she changed? 1365 01:35:13,489 --> 01:35:14,739 Well... 1366 01:35:15,658 --> 01:35:20,161 "Look for the middle-aged woman in a plaid jacket." 1367 01:35:21,038 --> 01:35:23,373 - So... - You and Avis have never met? 1368 01:35:23,457 --> 01:35:25,208 We're just pen pals. 1369 01:35:25,835 --> 01:35:27,585 You don't know each other? 1370 01:35:27,670 --> 01:35:29,712 Well, we do. We write. 1371 01:35:29,797 --> 01:35:32,590 But how did you start writing one another? 1372 01:35:34,343 --> 01:35:37,387 That's a long story. 1373 01:35:38,222 --> 01:35:43,685 Avis' husband, Bernard De Voto, now dead, was a wonderful, wonderful writer. 1374 01:35:44,270 --> 01:35:49,357 He wrote an article in "Harper's Magazine" all about stainless steel knives... 1375 01:35:50,359 --> 01:35:53,736 - and how he absolutely detested them. - Yes. 1376 01:35:53,821 --> 01:35:59,826 And so I wrote him a fan letter because he was 100% right... 1377 01:36:00,494 --> 01:36:02,370 and Avis wrote me back. 1378 01:36:02,830 --> 01:36:05,874 And so I wrote her back. And she wrote me back. 1379 01:36:07,084 --> 01:36:10,503 Well, it's been eight years, I think. 1380 01:36:22,057 --> 01:36:24,476 - Avis. - Julia. 1381 01:36:27,938 --> 01:36:31,274 - My darling friend. - Look at you. 1382 01:36:34,236 --> 01:36:37,238 Brilliant friend. Bless you. 1383 01:36:37,823 --> 01:36:43,495 This is a very impressive undertaking, Mrs. Child and Mrs. Beck. 1384 01:36:43,579 --> 01:36:45,914 Well, thank you very, very much. 1385 01:36:46,123 --> 01:36:48,541 And your editor loves it. 1386 01:36:48,959 --> 01:36:51,169 I do. I think it's brilliant. 1387 01:36:51,837 --> 01:36:54,797 There's really nothing else like it on the market. 1388 01:36:54,882 --> 01:36:59,886 - The problem is not just the length. - It's 700 pages. 1389 01:37:00,262 --> 01:37:04,807 - Yes, we know. It is long. - Yes, we know it's long. 1390 01:37:04,892 --> 01:37:10,313 You have 700 pages of just sauce and poultry recipes. 1391 01:37:11,106 --> 01:37:15,485 We were thinking that you could publish it in a series of volumes. 1392 01:37:15,569 --> 01:37:17,612 Volume One, Sauces. 1393 01:37:17,696 --> 01:37:19,989 - Volume Two... - Poultry. 1394 01:37:21,033 --> 01:37:22,116 Yes. 1395 01:37:23,244 --> 01:37:29,207 Volume Three, Fish. Meat, vegetables, and desserts. 1396 01:37:29,291 --> 01:37:32,585 That's one, two, three... That's six volumes. 1397 01:37:33,295 --> 01:37:34,462 Eggs. 1398 01:37:35,130 --> 01:37:38,591 - Eggs. - Eggs. Seven. Seven volumes. 1399 01:37:39,176 --> 01:37:42,262 But we don't want to publish an encyclopedia. 1400 01:37:42,346 --> 01:37:44,681 I thought this was intended for housewives. 1401 01:37:44,765 --> 01:37:49,185 Yes, housewives want something quick, with a mix. 1402 01:37:50,229 --> 01:37:51,396 Like this. 1403 01:37:53,649 --> 01:37:56,359 But if I may speak for everyone, 1404 01:37:56,443 --> 01:38:01,030 if you were willing to revise it, I'm sure we would all be interested. 1405 01:38:04,618 --> 01:38:08,162 Simca, I am so sorry. 1406 01:38:08,497 --> 01:38:11,416 You just picked the wrong collaborator. 1407 01:38:11,500 --> 01:38:16,337 Yes, I should have worked with this woman, "Baked Alaska in a Flower Pot." 1408 01:38:17,047 --> 01:38:22,302 We'll just take the book away from Houghton Mifflin and find another publisher. 1409 01:38:23,012 --> 01:38:27,724 We have just begun to fight. Julia, your book is a masterpiece. 1410 01:38:27,808 --> 01:38:29,767 What is Marshmallow Fluff? 1411 01:38:29,852 --> 01:38:35,773 And keep the advance, by the way. Keep the entire $250. 1412 01:38:35,858 --> 01:38:37,775 Don't give them back a penny of it. 1413 01:38:37,860 --> 01:38:43,698 Why did we ever decide to do this anyway? What were we thinking? 1414 01:38:43,782 --> 01:38:45,408 Who can remember? 1415 01:38:46,702 --> 01:38:47,869 I can. 1416 01:38:49,330 --> 01:38:54,584 We wanted to write a French cookbook for American women who do not have cooks. 1417 01:38:54,668 --> 01:39:00,548 So then, that's what we'll do. We'll just do it all over again. 1418 01:39:01,550 --> 01:39:03,885 And that's that. It'll be easy. 1419 01:39:05,054 --> 01:39:11,059 It will. The dessert section is done. Thanks to Simca, it is brilliant. 1420 01:39:11,977 --> 01:39:13,311 Thank you. 1421 01:39:13,646 --> 01:39:16,314 I just haven't typed it up yet. 1422 01:39:16,398 --> 01:39:20,902 But that will give me something to do in Oslo. 1423 01:39:52,101 --> 01:39:56,104 Eric, come see the world's most beautiful chicken. 1424 01:40:07,616 --> 01:40:08,825 Naughty. 1425 01:40:15,040 --> 01:40:16,124 Wow. 1426 01:40:17,876 --> 01:40:19,293 Oh, my God. 1427 01:40:22,589 --> 01:40:25,508 It feels so good. No, I'm serious. I love it! 1428 01:40:26,927 --> 01:40:29,762 I just want to savor this moment. 1429 01:40:30,180 --> 01:40:32,181 The moment when anything is possible. 1430 01:40:32,266 --> 01:40:37,186 The moment that you can just imagine they're going to love everything you did... 1431 01:40:37,271 --> 01:40:42,150 and it's going to sell a million copies and change the world. 1432 01:40:43,110 --> 01:40:46,946 Yes. But I think it calls for a great bottle of wine. 1433 01:40:47,030 --> 01:40:48,781 - Don't you think? - Yes. 1434 01:40:48,866 --> 01:40:50,533 What's for dinner? 1435 01:40:54,955 --> 01:40:56,789 What if she doesn't eat pork? 1436 01:40:56,874 --> 01:41:01,461 She's a food writer. Of course she eats pork. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. 1437 01:41:01,545 --> 01:41:04,505 You're right. I know you're right. I'm sure you're right. 1438 01:41:05,340 --> 01:41:07,133 - Is she early? - She's right on time. 1439 01:41:07,217 --> 01:41:08,718 - I'll finish, I'll finish. - Thank you, thank you. 1440 01:41:08,802 --> 01:41:12,847 You are a terrible human being. And very difficult to live with. 1441 01:41:14,433 --> 01:41:15,516 Who is it? 1442 01:41:15,601 --> 01:41:17,685 Amanda Hesser from "The New York Times". 1443 01:41:18,604 --> 01:41:19,854 Come in. 1444 01:41:25,027 --> 01:41:27,528 You have such a sense of Julia when you do something like this, 1445 01:41:27,613 --> 01:41:29,655 as a teacher, as a voice. 1446 01:41:29,740 --> 01:41:32,950 I have conversations with her while I'm cooking. 1447 01:41:33,035 --> 01:41:36,537 And I feel like she is there with me in the kitchen. 1448 01:41:36,622 --> 01:41:38,456 She's like your imaginary friend. 1449 01:41:38,540 --> 01:41:39,624 Yes. 1450 01:41:40,667 --> 01:41:42,794 And, of course, she is the person I write for every day. 1451 01:41:42,878 --> 01:41:45,546 Although, I don't think she ever reads it. I don't know. 1452 01:41:45,631 --> 01:41:47,507 I'm dying to meet her. 1453 01:41:47,633 --> 01:41:51,677 I would like to be a bridesmaid in her wedding in 1946. 1454 01:41:52,721 --> 01:41:56,724 I realize that that would take an inexplicable episode of time travel, 1455 01:41:56,809 --> 01:41:59,644 but that is the sort of thing that I think about. 1456 01:41:59,728 --> 01:42:02,146 We're planning a pilgrimage to Julia's Cambridge kitchen... 1457 01:42:02,231 --> 01:42:04,482 in the Smithsonian museum when this is over. 1458 01:42:04,566 --> 01:42:09,278 But first, I have to finish. I have 15 days and 24 recipes, 1459 01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:12,740 and I still have to bone a duck. 1460 01:42:16,745 --> 01:42:20,581 I read somewhere that it was bad form to say "yum" while you're eating, but "yum." 1461 01:42:44,523 --> 01:42:48,734 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, this is Julie Powell. Please hold. 1462 01:42:48,819 --> 01:42:51,946 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, this is Julie Powell. Can you hold? 1463 01:42:52,030 --> 01:42:53,322 - Yes. - Great. 1464 01:42:53,407 --> 01:42:55,700 - Lower Manhattan Development... - Julie, it's Sarah. 1465 01:42:55,784 --> 01:42:57,618 The Now York Times. I can't believe it! 1466 01:42:57,703 --> 01:43:00,830 I know. I know, I know, I know, I know. Can I call you back? 1467 01:43:00,914 --> 01:43:02,623 I have to call you back. Hold on. 1468 01:43:02,708 --> 01:43:05,042 Hello, this is Julie Powell. How can I help you? 1469 01:43:07,504 --> 01:43:09,505 - Hi. - Hey. 1470 01:43:10,883 --> 01:43:13,759 Guess what? Messages on machine? 1471 01:43:15,137 --> 01:43:16,554 Sixty-five. 1472 01:43:16,972 --> 01:43:19,348 - Sixty-five? - Sixty-five. 1473 01:43:24,396 --> 01:43:28,399 If this is the Julie Powell in this morning's New York Times, this is Judy Clain. 1474 01:43:28,483 --> 01:43:30,902 I'm an editor at "Little Brown" and I wanted to talk to you about... 1475 01:43:30,986 --> 01:43:33,237 whether you were interested in writing a book. 1476 01:43:33,322 --> 01:43:38,117 You can call me at (212) 049-0067. 1477 01:43:39,870 --> 01:43:42,288 Hi, this is Sarah Chalfant. I am a literary agent. 1478 01:43:42,372 --> 01:43:43,623 I don't know if you have an agent, 1479 01:43:43,707 --> 01:43:46,876 but I would love to talk to you about representing you. 1480 01:43:47,502 --> 01:43:51,255 - I'm a producer at the "CBS Morning News". - Eric, I'm going to be a writer! 1481 01:43:51,340 --> 01:43:53,007 You are a writer. 1482 01:43:56,511 --> 01:43:59,347 This is Ruth Spungen, I'm an editor at "Food & Wine Magazine". 1483 01:43:59,431 --> 01:44:03,601 Please give me a call at (212) 157-3245. 1484 01:44:03,894 --> 01:44:06,270 - I have to make a pear tart. - Later. 1485 01:44:06,355 --> 01:44:10,733 Hi. It's Mom. You're in The New York Times! 1486 01:44:10,817 --> 01:44:13,194 I can't tell ya, everybody is calling. 1487 01:44:13,278 --> 01:44:15,947 And Aunt Jessie's cousin Dorrie in Abilene, 1488 01:44:16,031 --> 01:44:18,282 the one with the husband who won the pie-eating contest... 1489 01:44:18,367 --> 01:44:20,076 and is a crossword puzzle nut, 1490 01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:23,537 they have a subscription to The New York Times. They saw it in Abilene. 1491 01:44:23,622 --> 01:44:26,123 Everyone is so excited! 1492 01:44:26,500 --> 01:44:28,918 This is Ken Dryer. I'm an editor at "Random House", 1493 01:44:29,002 --> 01:44:32,630 and I just read your blog and it's great. And we'd love to publish something. 1494 01:44:32,714 --> 01:44:34,632 I'm an editor at Bon Appetit. 1495 01:44:34,716 --> 01:44:37,635 Hi, I'm a producer at the "Food Network". We'd love to meet with you. 1496 01:44:37,719 --> 01:44:39,261 - Talk to you. - We have some ideas. 1497 01:44:39,346 --> 01:44:41,430 I don't know whether you're thinking of turning this into... 1498 01:44:41,515 --> 01:44:42,473 - A book. - A movie. 1499 01:44:42,557 --> 01:44:44,433 - A television series. - A one-woman show. 1500 01:44:44,518 --> 01:44:45,643 - Call me. - Call me. 1501 01:44:45,727 --> 01:44:46,978 Call me. 1502 01:44:50,273 --> 01:44:51,816 Thank you, God. 1503 01:44:58,740 --> 01:44:59,949 Gimlets. 1504 01:45:00,951 --> 01:45:02,451 - Here you go. - Thank you. 1505 01:45:02,536 --> 01:45:04,537 - Hi, this is Julie. - And Eric. 1506 01:45:04,621 --> 01:45:06,956 - And we are busy cooking. - And blogging. 1507 01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:10,251 And other stuff, so leave a message. 1508 01:45:10,335 --> 01:45:13,337 - You make them better. - I just make them stronger. 1509 01:45:13,422 --> 01:45:15,756 Hi, it's Barry Ryan from the "Santa Barbara News-Press", 1510 01:45:15,841 --> 01:45:19,010 and I'm writing an article about Julia Child's 90th birthday... 1511 01:45:19,094 --> 01:45:20,886 and I asked her about your blog, 1512 01:45:20,971 --> 01:45:26,058 and, frankly, she was kind of a pill about it so I thought maybe you'd want to comment. 1513 01:45:26,810 --> 01:45:27,977 Hello? 1514 01:45:28,437 --> 01:45:29,770 Yes, it is. 1515 01:45:33,775 --> 01:45:35,276 She said that? 1516 01:45:36,611 --> 01:45:38,487 Julia Child said that? 1517 01:45:42,659 --> 01:45:44,452 Has she read my blog? 1518 01:45:48,457 --> 01:45:51,459 No, I don't really wanna comment. 1519 01:45:52,711 --> 01:45:54,754 But thank you for calling. 1520 01:45:59,551 --> 01:46:01,093 Julia hates me. 1521 01:46:06,475 --> 01:46:07,558 Jule? 1522 01:46:10,312 --> 01:46:11,771 They hate us. 1523 01:46:12,481 --> 01:46:13,522 Who? 1524 01:46:14,357 --> 01:46:15,983 Houghton Mifflin. 1525 01:46:28,413 --> 01:46:31,665 - They don't hate you. - They do. They absolutely do. 1526 01:46:33,001 --> 01:46:35,169 No, they say the book is good. 1527 01:46:35,253 --> 01:46:37,213 But they don't want to publish it. 1528 01:46:37,297 --> 01:46:41,634 Well, they think it's too expensive. They think it's "economically prohibitive." 1529 01:46:41,718 --> 01:46:48,015 Eight years of our lives just turned out to be something for me to do... 1530 01:46:49,643 --> 01:46:52,019 so I wouldn't have nothing to do. 1531 01:46:53,480 --> 01:46:54,730 Oh, well. 1532 01:46:55,440 --> 01:46:56,690 Boo-hoo. 1533 01:46:58,944 --> 01:47:00,194 Now what? 1534 01:47:03,073 --> 01:47:04,657 - You're a teacher. - Yeah. 1535 01:47:04,741 --> 01:47:06,242 You can teach. 1536 01:47:07,452 --> 01:47:09,537 Right? We'll go home and... 1537 01:47:10,372 --> 01:47:11,872 Where's home? 1538 01:47:12,541 --> 01:47:14,208 Where do we live? 1539 01:47:18,839 --> 01:47:21,674 - Home is wherever we are. - Yeah. 1540 01:47:22,175 --> 01:47:26,262 All right? And we'll work it out. We'll figure it out. 1541 01:47:27,472 --> 01:47:29,807 - You can teach in our kitchen. - True. 1542 01:47:29,891 --> 01:47:31,559 You can teach on television. 1543 01:47:35,188 --> 01:47:36,564 Television? 1544 01:47:36,898 --> 01:47:38,232 - Me? - Yes. 1545 01:47:38,942 --> 01:47:39,984 - Paul. - No, Julia. 1546 01:47:40,068 --> 01:47:43,737 I think you would be excellent on television. I do. 1547 01:47:44,573 --> 01:47:46,073 - Paul! - I do. I do. 1548 01:47:46,158 --> 01:47:47,324 Don't... 1549 01:47:47,868 --> 01:47:50,077 I'm not kidding you. I'm not. 1550 01:47:51,621 --> 01:47:53,873 Someone is going to publish your book. 1551 01:47:53,957 --> 01:47:57,835 Someone is going to read your book and realize what you've done. 1552 01:47:57,919 --> 01:48:00,087 Because your book is amazing. 1553 01:48:00,172 --> 01:48:02,965 Your book is a work of genius. 1554 01:48:03,550 --> 01:48:06,677 Your book is going to change the world. 1555 01:48:09,514 --> 01:48:10,764 Do you hear me? 1556 01:48:13,018 --> 01:48:15,269 You are so sweet. 1557 01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:18,606 You are... 1558 01:48:19,858 --> 01:48:21,483 the sweetest man. 1559 01:48:26,281 --> 01:48:27,406 Fuck them. 1560 01:48:32,787 --> 01:48:35,539 Judith, would you take a look at this? 1561 01:48:35,624 --> 01:48:37,958 Our intrepid literary scout, Avis De Voto, 1562 01:48:38,043 --> 01:48:41,587 is friends with some woman who's written a huge French cookbook. 1563 01:48:41,671 --> 01:48:44,298 Houghton Mifflin just turned it down. 1564 01:48:44,925 --> 01:48:48,844 "French Recipes for American Cooks." Terrible title. 1565 01:48:49,304 --> 01:48:50,930 Have fun, Judith. 1566 01:49:24,923 --> 01:49:36,058 Yum. 1567 01:49:37,978 --> 01:49:39,186 Oh, my. 1568 01:49:48,029 --> 01:49:51,282 - Here it is. Of course. - What... 1569 01:49:52,033 --> 01:49:54,868 - Who's that? - I don't know. 1570 01:49:59,082 --> 01:50:01,125 Special delivery for Mrs. Julia Child. 1571 01:50:01,209 --> 01:50:02,501 Chilly! 1572 01:50:05,380 --> 01:50:06,922 There you are. 1573 01:50:33,992 --> 01:50:35,617 Dear Mrs. Child, 1574 01:50:35,702 --> 01:50:38,203 we have read your superb French cookbook, 1575 01:50:38,288 --> 01:50:42,041 studying it, cooking from it, estimating, and so on. 1576 01:50:42,125 --> 01:50:44,960 And we have come to the conclusion that it is a unique book... 1577 01:50:45,045 --> 01:50:47,379 that we would be very proud to publish. 1578 01:50:47,589 --> 01:50:49,465 Paul! Paul! 1579 01:50:49,549 --> 01:50:51,759 What? What, what, what, what? 1580 01:50:52,594 --> 01:50:53,761 Knopf... 1581 01:50:54,137 --> 01:50:56,680 Knopf wants to publish our book. 1582 01:50:56,765 --> 01:50:58,766 Is it "K-nopf" or "Nopf"? 1583 01:50:59,267 --> 01:51:01,143 - Who cares? - Who cares? 1584 01:51:01,269 --> 01:51:05,689 They want to offer us an advance of $1,500. 1585 01:51:05,774 --> 01:51:07,107 Oh, my God. 1586 01:51:08,234 --> 01:51:13,197 "We believe that your book will do for French cooking in America... 1587 01:51:13,281 --> 01:51:17,201 what Rombauer's the Joy of Cooking did for standard cooking. 1588 01:51:17,285 --> 01:51:19,703 And we will sell it that way." 1589 01:51:19,788 --> 01:51:21,121 Julia! 1590 01:51:22,582 --> 01:51:25,334 When we meet, which I hope will be very soon, 1591 01:51:25,418 --> 01:51:28,879 I especially wanna talk to you about the title of the book. 1592 01:51:28,963 --> 01:51:32,508 Because it is of the utmost importance that the title distinguish this book... 1593 01:51:32,592 --> 01:51:35,177 from all the other cookbooks on the market. 1594 01:51:36,679 --> 01:51:40,849 - Is this the way you normally do this? - Absolutely not. 1595 01:51:47,482 --> 01:51:50,734 "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." 1596 01:51:53,613 --> 01:51:54,655 What do you think? 1597 01:51:54,739 --> 01:51:59,743 Well, at this point, I have no idea whatsoever. 1598 01:51:59,828 --> 01:52:02,955 - Julia, that won't do. - All right, then. 1599 01:52:04,082 --> 01:52:05,666 I love it. 1600 01:52:07,252 --> 01:52:10,838 She said "hate"? Julia Child used the word "hate"? 1601 01:52:11,923 --> 01:52:12,965 No. 1602 01:52:13,633 --> 01:52:17,928 But she said I wasn't respectful, or serious, or something. 1603 01:52:18,012 --> 01:52:20,764 How much more serious could a person be? 1604 01:52:21,558 --> 01:52:25,352 Do you think she thinks I'm sort of using her? 1605 01:52:26,020 --> 01:52:28,230 She can't have read your blog. 1606 01:52:28,314 --> 01:52:29,898 Did she read it? 1607 01:52:30,108 --> 01:52:32,276 He didn't know if she'd read it. 1608 01:52:32,360 --> 01:52:35,195 But she definitely had an opinion about it. 1609 01:52:35,280 --> 01:52:39,032 Do you think it's because I use the "F" word every so often? 1610 01:52:39,701 --> 01:52:41,910 Could be. Who knows? 1611 01:52:42,871 --> 01:52:46,457 Look, there's something wrong with her if she doesn't get what you're doing. 1612 01:52:46,541 --> 01:52:48,292 There is nothing wrong with her. Nothing. 1613 01:52:48,376 --> 01:52:50,669 I've spent a year with her. She's perfect. 1614 01:52:50,753 --> 01:52:53,088 The Julia Child in your head is perfect, 1615 01:52:53,173 --> 01:52:56,758 the Julia Child that doesn't understand what you're doing is not perfect. 1616 01:52:56,843 --> 01:52:59,761 The one in your head is the one that matters. 1617 01:53:02,390 --> 01:53:04,266 I'm never gonna meet her. 1618 01:53:05,518 --> 01:53:07,519 But you already know her. 1619 01:53:09,397 --> 01:53:12,649 - Thank you. - You're welcome. Anytime. 1620 01:53:14,235 --> 01:53:17,237 - She saved me. - You saved yourself. 1621 01:53:17,530 --> 01:53:20,991 I was drowning and she pulled me out of the ocean. 1622 01:53:21,075 --> 01:53:22,951 Don't get carried away. 1623 01:53:25,914 --> 01:53:27,623 Julia Child began learning to cook... 1624 01:53:27,707 --> 01:53:30,334 because she loved her husband, and she loved food, 1625 01:53:30,418 --> 01:53:32,211 and she didn't know what else to do with herself. 1626 01:53:32,295 --> 01:53:35,339 And, in the process, she found joy. 1627 01:53:35,423 --> 01:53:38,800 I didn't understand this for a long time, but I do now. 1628 01:53:38,885 --> 01:53:40,802 Julia taught me that. 1629 01:53:40,887 --> 01:53:43,597 But here's what Julia really taught me. 1630 01:53:46,976 --> 01:53:48,018 So here we are. 1631 01:53:48,561 --> 01:53:50,771 One day to go and one recipe. 1632 01:53:53,274 --> 01:53:58,028 You may think that boning a duck is an impossible feat. 1633 01:53:58,112 --> 01:54:00,197 - And the whole procedure... - Nothing is impossible. 1634 01:54:00,281 --> 01:54:04,826 ...can take as long as 45 minutes the first time because of fear. 1635 01:54:05,662 --> 01:54:07,287 Don't be afraid. 1636 01:54:07,705 --> 01:54:09,623 No fear, Julia. No fear. 1637 01:54:09,707 --> 01:54:12,668 Take your knife, confront the duck. 1638 01:54:12,752 --> 01:54:15,087 Confronting the duck. You're my duck. 1639 01:54:15,171 --> 01:54:19,424 You make a deep slit down the back of the bird... 1640 01:54:20,301 --> 01:54:25,639 all the way from the neck down to the tail to expose the backbone. 1641 01:54:25,807 --> 01:54:30,269 And with a small, sharp knife, its edge always cutting against the bone... 1642 01:54:30,353 --> 01:54:34,022 I did it. Look at that, Julia. It looks just like yours. 1643 01:54:35,441 --> 01:54:38,819 ...down one side of the bird... ...pulling the flesh. 1644 01:54:38,903 --> 01:54:43,407 Thread the boned duck on a board, face skin side down. 1645 01:54:43,491 --> 01:54:46,159 ...patting it into place. Roll out the dough. 1646 01:54:46,244 --> 01:54:51,498 ...two hours and remove it from the oven and let it cool for several hours. 1647 01:54:51,583 --> 01:54:54,668 It looks exactly the way it's supposed to look. 1648 01:54:55,962 --> 01:54:58,130 Here you go. Can you grab the plates, too? 1649 01:54:58,214 --> 01:55:00,424 - You sure? - I got it. 1650 01:55:02,510 --> 01:55:03,844 Coming around. 1651 01:55:06,347 --> 01:55:08,140 Here she comes. Wow! 1652 01:55:09,976 --> 01:55:12,686 Thank you. La pièce de résistance. 1653 01:55:13,771 --> 01:55:18,400 365 days. 524 recipes. 1654 01:55:22,447 --> 01:55:25,032 - Congratulations! - Thank you, guys. 1655 01:55:26,576 --> 01:55:29,369 Babe. It's fantastic. 1656 01:55:30,204 --> 01:55:31,496 So great. 1657 01:55:32,707 --> 01:55:34,708 I love it. I love it. 1658 01:55:38,504 --> 01:55:41,548 Eric, I could never have done this without you. 1659 01:55:42,592 --> 01:55:44,301 As someone once said, 1660 01:55:44,385 --> 01:55:47,888 you are the butter to my bread, the breath to my life. 1661 01:55:50,058 --> 01:55:51,558 To my husband. 1662 01:55:53,019 --> 01:55:54,603 I love you, babe. 1663 01:55:55,647 --> 01:55:56,855 Thank you. 1664 01:55:56,939 --> 01:55:58,398 So it's over. 1665 01:55:59,233 --> 01:56:03,987 The project has come to a close. We're back exactly where we started, 1666 01:56:04,072 --> 01:56:07,449 Eric, me, the cat, slightly worse for wear, 1667 01:56:07,533 --> 01:56:10,410 sitting in the outer boroughs, eating. 1668 01:56:11,037 --> 01:56:12,829 So thanks, everybody. 1669 01:56:13,164 --> 01:56:14,706 And guess what? 1670 01:56:15,416 --> 01:56:17,250 Bon appétit. 1671 01:56:30,682 --> 01:56:34,434 See how the counters are raised? She had them made special. 1672 01:56:37,730 --> 01:56:40,315 There's her famous mortar and pestle. 1673 01:56:41,401 --> 01:56:42,901 If you say so. 1674 01:56:43,569 --> 01:56:45,320 - Perfect. - Take my picture. 1675 01:56:46,781 --> 01:56:47,906 Okay. 1676 01:56:49,951 --> 01:56:52,661 That's nice. Give me something else. 1677 01:56:52,745 --> 01:56:54,955 Here we go. Talking to her. 1678 01:56:55,081 --> 01:56:56,665 That's good. 1679 01:56:57,417 --> 01:56:58,542 One more. 1680 01:56:58,626 --> 01:56:59,835 Very sweet. 1681 01:57:01,129 --> 01:57:03,672 That's it. That's the one. 1682 01:57:04,465 --> 01:57:05,966 That's the one. 1683 01:57:07,218 --> 01:57:08,635 Just give me a second. 1684 01:57:25,820 --> 01:57:27,529 I love you, Julia. 1685 01:58:23,711 --> 01:58:25,212 There you are! 1686 01:58:27,131 --> 01:58:29,090 That smells good. What are we having? 1687 01:58:29,175 --> 01:58:31,259 Navarin d'agneau. 1688 01:58:38,643 --> 01:58:40,310 Something for you.