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How To Be Julia Child in Los Angeles
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I don't know about you, but I'm VERY easily inspired/influenced by movies. For instance, a viewing of "The Mighty Ducks" would make me want to go out and join a youth hockey team. So when "Julie & Julia" comes out this summer odds are I'm going to want to unleash my inner Julia Child. Here's how I'm going to do it.
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I just finished it and yup. Now I’m super super excited for the movie. I LOVED it!!
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Once again, Susie you are my hero! I should have suggested this as a book club book so I would have been obliged to read it before the movie came out! Oh well.
California School Of Culinary Arts
521 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA 91101
Julia Child went to the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, and the California School of the Culinary Arts is probably the closest you’ll get to the Cordon Bleu in Los Angeles— the school offers Le Cordon Bleu sanctioned programs in culinary arts and baking.
Julia Child went to the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, and the California School of the Culinary Arts is probably the closest you’ll get to the Cordon Bleu in Los Angeles— the school offers Le Cordon Bleu sanctioned programs in culinary arts and baking.
New School of Cooking the
8690 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
If you’re too scared to venture into the professional waters of the California School of Culinary Arts, you might want to get your feet wet at the New School. The offer novelty-type classes like Cooking With Thai Noodles and Cupcakes, but they also have practical offerings like Knife Skills and Roasting.
If you’re too scared to venture into the professional waters of the California School of Culinary Arts, you might want to get your feet wet at the New School. The offer novelty-type classes like Cooking With Thai Noodles and Cupcakes, but they also have practical offerings like Knife Skills and Roasting.
Hipcooks
2833 S Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90034
And if even the New School sounds too scary, then I would recommend Hipcooks— I took an Indian cooking class here a while back. It’s VERY casual (it’s sort of like one of your friends has invited you over to help cook dinner for you,) and you shouldn’t have too hard of a time recreating the recipes at home.
And if even the New School sounds too scary, then I would recommend Hipcooks— I took an Indian cooking class here a while back. It’s VERY casual (it’s sort of like one of your friends has invited you over to help cook dinner for you,) and you shouldn’t have too hard of a time recreating the recipes at home.
Hipcooks
A Hipcooks class in action.
How to Cook Up a Storm in Los Angeles
Ready, Set, Cook!
Spork Foods
And just because you’re a vegan that doesn’t mean you have to cry into your tofu scramble while your friends rush off to cooking classes. Spork offers wheat-free, macrobiotic, and vegan cooking instruction to individuals and small groups. They’ll teach you how to whip a vegan Italian meal, a Mexican fiesta, or Jewish comfort food!
Spork Foods' Jenny Goldberg
Co-owner Jenny Goldberg gets down to business.
Cooking Classes at Food
Food on Pico (it’s a gourmet market/deli similar to Joan’s on Third,) now offers classes and lectures on all things food! The LA Weekly went to a stone fruit baking class recently and it looks AMAZING.
Stone-Fruit Baking Class at Food
Dammit! Now I have drool all over my keyboard.
Sushi Girl
I’ve expressed my love for sushi MANY times on Guidespot, but truthfully I’d be sort of scared to attempt making it at home— something about eating raw fish at home scares me. But look! It’s Sushi Girl to the rescue! Sushi Girl will come to your house and teach you and your guests how to cut salmon like a pro.
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"My Life in France" by Julia Child
Child’s memoir of her time in France also served as inspiration for the movie adaptation of “Julie & Julia.”
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I’m going to be reading this next! Can’t wait to start and hope I can finish before the movie!
Surfas Restaurant Supply
8777 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
Surfas is a GREAT place to get started on your culinary mission. Not only do they sell all KINDS of cookware and supplies, but they also a wide assortment of foods that cater to the home chef. Asian foods, chocolates, oils, syrups, preserves, pastas, spices, butters, rubs— you can find ‘em all here. AND if that weren’t enough they now offer cooking classes! Including, but not limited to: Gourmet S’mores Class.
Vanilla Bean Marshmallows
Sea Salt Caramel Cream
Handmade Graham Cookies
Chocolate Ganache
OH. MY. GOD.
Surfas is a GREAT place to get started on your culinary mission. Not only do they sell all KINDS of cookware and supplies, but they also a wide assortment of foods that cater to the home chef. Asian foods, chocolates, oils, syrups, preserves, pastas, spices, butters, rubs— you can find ‘em all here. AND if that weren’t enough they now offer cooking classes! Including, but not limited to: Gourmet S’mores Class.
Vanilla Bean Marshmallows
Sea Salt Caramel Cream
Handmade Graham Cookies
Chocolate Ganache
OH. MY. GOD.
Surfas
Behold the cookware glory!
Sur La Table
301 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401
If you can’t make it to somewhere like Surfas, you could do much worse than the chain Sur La Table. They have pretty much any kind of tool, gadget, or cooking receptacle you can think of.
If you can’t make it to somewhere like Surfas, you could do much worse than the chain Sur La Table. They have pretty much any kind of tool, gadget, or cooking receptacle you can think of.
California Certified Farmers Market Inc
23501 Park Sorrento, Calabasas, CA 91302
I’m a HUGE farmers’ market person. And since I move around LA a lot, I’ve been to the Santa Monica, West LA, Studio City, Beverly Hills, Century City, and Westwood farmers’ markets. Of late, I’ve been going to the one in Calabasas, and I’ve been getting some AMAZING summer fruit there— not to mention delicious corn. Plus, actress Angie Harmon is a regular here. Last time I was here I overheard she grows plums in her backyard. How quaint!
I’m a HUGE farmers’ market person. And since I move around LA a lot, I’ve been to the Santa Monica, West LA, Studio City, Beverly Hills, Century City, and Westwood farmers’ markets. Of late, I’ve been going to the one in Calabasas, and I’ve been getting some AMAZING summer fruit there— not to mention delicious corn. Plus, actress Angie Harmon is a regular here. Last time I was here I overheard she grows plums in her backyard. How quaint!
Speaking of summer fruit, a clafouti (which is a kind of fruit pudding, although it’s really more of a cross between cake and pudding,) is the PERFECT vehicle for cherries, nectarines, plums, or pretty much any stone fruit which is a little bit past its prime. Here’s a recipe for none other than Julia Child:
Julia Child's Cherry Clafouti
Serves 6-8
1 1/4 cups milk
1/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup flour
3 cups cherries, pitted
1/3 cup sugar
powdered sugar
In a blender blend the milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt and flour. Pour a 1/4 inch layer of the batter in a buttered 7 or 8 cup lightly buttered fireproof baking dish. Place in the oven until a film of batter sets in the pan. Remove from the heat and spread the cherries over the batter. Sprinkle on the 1/3 cup of sugar. Pour on the rest of the batter. Bake at 350 degrees for about for about 45 minutes to an hour. The clafouti is done when puffed and brown and and a knife plunged in the center comes out clean. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, serve warm.
Enjoy!
Good Food on KCRW
If you’re a foodie, an aspiring chef, or an avid vegetable gardener, you HAVE to tune into this Saturday morning radio show on LA radio station KCRW (if you’re not local you can listen online.) Host Evan Kleiman does a superb job of incorporating a slew of food-related issues into her show— she covers everything from local restaurants to farming industry documentaries to new cooking trends.
"Good Food" Host Evan Kleiman
I SO want her to adopt me.
The "Good Food" Blog
Currently, Kleiman is posting a pie a day. Dammit, more drool on my keyboard.
Angeli-Caffe-Pizzeria
7274 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046
In case you fall in love with Evan after listening to show (and granted you probably will), you can head to her low-key (and affordable!!) Italian restaurant for delicious eats.
In case you fall in love with Evan after listening to show (and granted you probably will), you can head to her low-key (and affordable!!) Italian restaurant for delicious eats.
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