Eat Local Week: The JULIE AND JULIA BeneFeast

For this special Food & Film event, enjoy an exquisite five-course French feast prepared by the extraordinary John Bullington and Trish Eichelberger.

Edible Austin Eat Local Week, December 5-12, is a week-long invitation for Central Texans to explore and celebrate the abundance of local food by eating out and shopping at participating area restaurants and markets, and to raise money for YouthLaunch's Urban Roots, a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture to effect lasting change for youth 14-18 years old, and to nourish East Austin residents who have limited access to healthy foods. To see an updated list of event sponsors, participating restaurants and markets, and for a complete and updated listing of events during Eat Local Week, go to: www.edibleaustin.com/eatlocalweek.

Director Nora Ephron (SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, MIXED NUTS) brings us this big screen adaptation of two different books- Julie Powell's bestselling memoir Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, and Julia Child's memoir My Life in France. Powell (played in the film by Amy Adams, otherwise known as Meryl Streep: The Next Generation) embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The film intertwines the lives of the two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.