Daily Dialogue — October 4, 2016

“I cooked artichokes with hollandaise sauce which is melted butter that’s been whipped into a frenzy with egg yolks until it’s died and gone to heaven, and let me say this: is there anything better than butter? Think it over: every time you taste something that’s delicious beyond imagining and you say, “What is in this?”, the answer is always going to be, Butter. The day there’s a meteorite heading toward the earth and we have thirty days to live, I am going to spend it eating butter. Here’s my final words on the subject, you can never have too much, butter.”

— Julie & Julia (2009), screenplay by Nora Ephron, book by Julie Powell, Julia Child, and Alex Prud’homme

Trivia: Nora Ephron insisted that the actors not only ate for real but also fully played how tasty the dishes were.

Dialogue On Dialogue: I’m generally not a huge fan of blog entries / journal writing with voice-over narration, but when you have Nora Ephron writing them and the subject is as delectable as they are in Julie & Julia, the work wonderfully