It was arguably Nora Ephron’s 2009 film Julie & Julia that most fully thrust her love of food into Hollywood’s bright spotlight, but the woman whose work includes landmark titles like When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle had for years littered her stories, films and plays with references to eating. And eating well, we might add.
The novelist-screenwriter-journalist-director-producer-playwright (her title could go on and on) has always been candid about the enriching role food played in her life offscreen and off the page.
In the 1960s, Ephron first discovered Julia Child’s cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and cooked her way through a deal of it — much like Julie, Ephron’s real-life character in Julie & Julia.
