Cooking for the Future

Co-ops, Julias and blogs (oh my)

Dear You Person Who Showed Up Here (and Thank You for Showing Up!),

I wrote a review about the film Julie & Julia for the Weavers’ Way Co-op this month.

Check out the full article on page 5 here.

I really love reading The Shuttle. It’s so neighborhood-y. It makes me happy every time it comes in my mail slot.

The Shuttle did make a mistake this month, and called me Julia Marie Rose (my first name is actually Jana), but I am thinking this is a good mistake! Because maybe it’s a quiet nudge that I could start my own cooking blog/show like Julie or Julia…. You think?

I did, after all, make a little cooking movie in 2020 where I performed as Female Pope who makes mac-n-cheese for her kiddos.

Do you think real popes make mac-n-cheese for kiddos? That would be fun to watch. Maybe someone can get me and this new Pope Leo guy in a kitchen and we can make mac-n-cheese and dance to hip hop music.

Can we have a contest to see who makes the best mac-n-cheese and has the most fun doing it—Female Pope or Pope Leo?

Or is making mac-n-cheese only my kind of thing?

Watch my version of cheese-infused cooking below, if you haven’t seen it yet. Adventures of Female Pope could very well be the next “Julia” Marie Rose….

Last, as followers of this newsletter probably know, the focus this spring is Joan and Joan-li-ness, in honor of actress Joan Cusack. So perhaps Female Popes are appropriate for cooking shows these days.

Pope Joan reigned in the middle ages. She disguised herself as a man to do so. It’s an interesting story!

The middle ages was a long time ago, and now it’s 2025. Hundreds of years and still no women priests or popes in Catholicism?

That’s so weird. I wonder why.

The Women’s Ordination Conference is at least trying.