Meryl Streep has been cast as Julia Child in Julie/Julia, the film adaptation of Julie Powell’s blog-to-memoir, which tracked her year-long quest to learning to cook by making all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, in her tiny New York apartment kitchen. The dreaded Nora Ephron will smear her patented directorial magic like bechamel on croque monsiuer (mmmmm….bechamel).

The food blogs are mostly enthusiastic (”I just wish Julia Child was still alive to see the stunning Streep portray her charming, gawky self,” quoth EatingLA), but the Hollywood blogs are approaching the involvement of Ephron with (probably deserved) skepticism. “Nora Ephron is adapting the screenplay and will direct, which I would usually consider bad news,” writes The Knife. But, on the other hand, “Ephron was a foodie before just about everyone except Julia Child.”

Powell hasn’t blogged about this yet, because she’s in Tanzania without a computer, but she did write a post in early October about having her apartment location scouted. It seems there’s been some attempt to accurately depict Powell’s then apartment as, in her words, “just as picturesquely grotty as I wrote.”

[via The Food Section].