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With a movie, reality cooking show, and several documentaries, the story of Julia Child has been told and told and told and told and told. But has it really been told?

 

I just think we need more. There was that Julie and Julia movie a few years ago. Then this year we’ve had the Food Network’s Julia Child Challenge, a Julia TV show with an actress playing the fictional chef, and at least one documentary. Come on—I think we can do better than that. We’re missing a lot and here are some suggestions to explore this woman from every conceivable angle from now until the end of time:

 

·      A Hulu show, Julia and Julie, that dramatizes the behind-the-scenes drama of Julie and Julia, with actors playing Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.

·      A musical version of the above.

·      Another Food Network show that uses famous chefs to recreate, line by line and move by move, every episode of The French Chef as exactly as possible.

·      A Broadway show, La Dame Qui Cuisinait, showcasing the ennui of Julia Child during a down period of her life, performed entirely in French.

·      Reviving Behind the Music on VH1 but every episode is about Julia Child.

·      A podcast where each episode is just a famous actor reading a different recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

·      Reenacting each episode of Baking With Julia using stop-motion animation.

·      A documentary on the filming of the Dinner at Julia’s series.

·      An reality show, What’s Julia Doing?, where interpretive dancers recreate famous recipes and the panelists have to guess which ones.

·      A documentary on the making of each of the above.

 

I just think we need more, is all.