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Hollywood has always lived up to it’s reputation of having something to offer for everybody. This time round, it’s the turn of food lovers all over, to toast to that. And if writer-director Nora Ephron’s past creative history of juxtaposing parallel story lines ala “When Harry Met Sally”, “Sleepless in Seattle” or “You’ve Got Mail” is anything to go by, then her latest in the offing, promises to be not just a visual delight, but a deliciously sensual culinary experience as well.

Opening on August 7th, Ephron’s latest, “Julie and Julia” starring Meryl Streep as the first ever American food-star, celebrity cook-book writer, the late Julia Child, and Amy Adams as Julie Powell, the 30 year-old housewife from Queens, New York, whose otherwise fairly aimless life is given meaning by the passion she discovers for fine culinary creativity, and how the same passion for fine food unites the two women, who are otherwise world’s apart.

Deliciously executed, being delectably abundant with imagery of beouf bourguignon, sole meuniere, fresh oyesters, and trussed chicken among many others, the part of the movie about Julie Powell dwells particularly on her blogged attempts to recreate all 524 recipes, that had appeared in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Volume One”, in a single year.

The engaging storyteller that Ephron is, she takes two otherwise unlikely silverscreen character adaptations, to deftly blend the mundane with the inspired, and the ordinary with the extraordinary, to create what can only be described as an eventual delightful “food for thought.”