Julie and Julia
Saturday, March 27th, 2010To be fair, I haven’t really blogged in a very long time. I use this portal to advertise or debrief my events and to post wine snippets about this or that. Sometimes if I am in a good mood and not being such a Diva, then I’ll publish a press release about a wine event or product that grabs my attention, mostly because they have either wooed me over a lovely long lunch at their wine estate or delivered delicious samples for me to savour. But to be completely honest, which I mostly always am or try to be, I have not blogged here in a very long time.
And Wine Diva is a blog that I started because I knew very little about wine and thought it would be clever and fun to blog as I learn. But I since I now know quite a bit about wine, not too much, and I struggle at times to follow through with my ideas to full bodied fruition because I am prone to getting a little bored and side-tracked, it seems that I stopped blogging about wine, in the purest sense of the art of blogging.
And to be even more honest, I don’t always feel the urge to blog strictly about wine… I want to blog about my life because wine in moderation is only one wonderful accessory to a life well lived. Ah, and so is good cooking, which brings me to the reason I am finally blogging here today. A friend of mine, who knows me very well it seems, told me about a movie I should rent, called Julie and Julia, and he added “it’s about a girl who blogs and she reminds me of you”. He prompted me with this serving suggestion in December, and then reminded me this week by asking whether I had rented it yet, because I word for word quoted a line out of the movie without even knowing it! Ha ha that’s a first. You see, I am always quoting lines from movies, but have never quoted a movie I haven’t even seen or a line that I haven’t even heard yet. That’s a little aspect of well done destiny right there, I’d say. Anyway, life has been so busy these past 3 months that I totally forgot to rent and watch it and was glad for the reminder. As God’s timing would have it, I have been struck with a bout of flu and it’s a cloudy rainy Saturday in Cape Town, and that combination called for a recipe of paracetemol, throat spray, Hot Toddy flu caps and staying in bed with a dvd. So I dragged myself out the door this morning, bundled my dog Missy in the car with me, so that she would feel like she has had an outing of sorts, even though I can’t fool her that it’s an official “walk”, and I presented my sniffly self to the typical “Wayne’s world” type video shop assistant and rented the movie.
Oh Divas, it’s a wonderful story that made me feel better and inspired and nostalgic and hungry all in 90 minutes, and it’s about two women, Julia Childs and Julie Powell, who found their passion for living and had a positive influence on the people around then and many others by sharing their interest in and talent for cooking, with writing as a side order, or vice versa. It’s hard to tell what came first, the cooking or the writing. It made me want to haul out my gran’s cookbooks and gourmet my way through them over the next year. It made me sure of the fact that I want to rent a house that has a better kitchen and stove, and I also noted to self the goal of wanting to take another trip to France some day for a rendez vous of gastronomic exploration!
But for right now, since I stilll have the flu, and a pokey kitchen with a 2 plate stove and no oven, and a fridge that is pretty bare, and no travel budget to speak of, with little to no leave due to me, I decided that I’ll do what is in my means to do and blog a little here… before watching the dvd again, sleeping off the flu meds and dreaming about Paris. And I do so love Paris in the springtime. So anyway, what’s your talent that you’re keeping under wraps and should be dusting off? Perhaps Julie and Julia can inspire you too. Just diva it.
