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In 2002, Julie Powell took on a year-long culinary quest: cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” She chronicled her trials and tribulations in a blog that caught on with the food crowd.  Now, her kitchen adventure is brought to the screen in Columbia Pictures’ comedy “Julie & Julia” with no less than Oscar-nominee Amy Adams (“Doubt,” “Enchanted”) playing the character.
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It’s no surprise that the Academy Award®-winning Meryl Streep was the logical choice to play Julia Child, the woman who forever changed the way America cooks, in Columbia Pictures’ life-affirming comedy “Julie & Julia.”

Director Nora Ephron (“Sleepless in Seattle ”) was inspired to cast Streep after running into the actress at a Shakespeare in the Park performance.  Streep asked what Ephron was working on, Ephron replied, and Streep immediately went into her Child impression: “Bon Appétit!”  Before it even began, the casting search was over.
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Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is writer Julie Powell in Nora Ephron’s comedy “Julie & Julia” from Columbia Pictures.

Before Ina, before Rachael, before Emeril, there was Julia, the woman who forever changed the way America cooks. But in 1948, Julia Child (Streep) was just an American woman living in France .  Her husband’s job has brought them to Paris , and with her indefatigable spirit, she yearned for something to do.
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