This movie is rather like a recipe these two women would create. It has two main ingredients (Julie&Julia) with lots of foie gras and seasoning to go around in the way of husbands, friends, disappointment, enduring under stress, deadlines, etc. That is life - like a recipe - and Julie saw how Julia made her life, er, recipes of life much better than they might have been had she not tried so hard to get them right, and to do it, after all, for the one she loved.