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Knowing nothing else about the film Julie & Julia, aside from the fact that the screenplay is by the same person that wrote When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail, you could safely assume it’s a chick flick.

So you thought it was going to be a lot of work, all this holiday cooking? We know, just thinking about it can be exhausting. The spirit of fussy Martha Stewart dueling with the ghost of drop-the-turkey-on-the-floor Julia Child? Top Chef duking it out with Iron Chef? Paula Dean versus Rachael Ray? It's enough to make you send for Chinese takeout.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs.

Recently, a concerned friend directed us to a recipe in the P-I’s “Cook It” section for an easy "stew.” This “stew”, which consists of a lot of things from cans, promises to be not only delicious, but ready in 15 minutes! This is when we got annoyed. You know what's fast and delicious? Grilled cheese. Or an omelette. Stew, however, is by DEFINITION a slow process. We got so indignant that we consulted our OED and guess what word we found literally peppering both the noun and verb forms of stew: slowly; as in, not in 15 minutes, or even 30 (you know who we're talking about). And while we hate to be overly critical, since we’re already there, the P-I’s “Cook It” slogan really seems to us like the culinary equivalent of the oh-so-wretched “git ‘er done.”

It's all about the gin, the vermouth, the garnish, the size of the glass, even the temperature of the ice. The folks who know are here in Seattle. Four luminaries on the dais at the Mayflower Park Hotel: from New York, authors Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown (), local guru Robert Hess (drinkboy.com), and celebrity bartender Ryan Magarian. Two dozen people in the audience for a seminar on martinis.