Hey, were they shooting last night at South Paw? I saw a big movie light out front as I walked uptown from The Chocolate Bar.

Julie and Julia is a memoir that started as a blog. Blogger Julie Powell cooked all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume  I, in a period of 365 days and blogged about it daily.

A friend told me that Julie was a temp at an office in Lower Manhattan. My friend said it was fun while Julie was doing the blog because she’d bring in the food she was cooking for her friends at the office to enjoy for lunch.

The blog became a successful book and now it’s being made into a movie written and directed by Nora Ephron and starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child.

Not bad.

It sounds like the story has been really fleshed out. According to Velvet Sea, they were shooting at Moutarde and there were classic cars outside. Sounds like a little Julia Child bio-pic thrown in for good measure.

Here’s the report from  Velvet Sea, a New York City photoblog with words:

Today they were filming Julie and Julia in Park Slope.  The movie is based on this book about a woman who tries to cook all of Julia Child’s recipes from Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One
in one year in order to change her life. The film is based in the 50’s
in Paris and Cafe Moutarde was apparently a stand in for a French cafe-
hence the classic cars. The movie has a bunch of stars in it, most
notably Meryl Streep as Julia Child. I spotted Meryl today walking to
her oversized trailer (it looked like she had an entire huge trailer to
herself whereas the other "stars" had like 1/5th of a trailer each).
She was wearing a plaid suit with her hair tucked under a matching hat
and striped very high wedge shoes- at least 3-4 inches