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Judith Jones, Julia Child’s longtime publisher and editor, discusses the new film Julie & Julia with Russ Morash, producer of Child's television show The French Chef, and chef Jasper White. Food writer Corby Kummer moderates this discussion of the film, which was written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.

Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started blogging about her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which was first released as the book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005). The paperback was later retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006).

This event is copresented by Sony Pictures and WGBH, from which The French Chef was broadcast from 1963-1973.

"Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences." — Julia Child (Mastering the Art of French Cooking)

"Julia Child began learning to cook when she was thirty-seven years old. She started because she wanted to feed her husband Paul. She started because though she’d fallen in love with great food late, when she did she’d fallen hard. She started because she was in Paris. She started because she didn’t know what else to do." — Julie Powell (The Julie/Julia Project blog)