AWFJ Women On Film – 2009 EDA Awards Flatout Bread Recipes

December 17, 2009 Jennifer Merin awfj women on film, flatout bread, food inc, julie & julia, julie birchmeier, nine, pizza, where the wild things are, wraps

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The 2009 EDA Awards Celebration was sponsored by Flatout Bread, and Flatout’s very creative Julie Birchmeier was at the event to provide guests with delicious pizza and wraps that were named after this year’s films. In response to numerous requests, here are Julie’s recipes:

The Julie & Julia Wrap – Original Flatout with grilled ‘poulet,’ bacon, brie cheese, leaf lettuce and caramelized onion
The Food, Inc. Wrap – Multi Grain Flatout with lettuce greens, goat cheese, dried cherries, pecans, goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette
The Where The Wild Things Are Wrap – Spinach Flatout with a melange of sautéed mushrooms and organic baby wild greens with a soy & ginger sauce
The Nine Pizza -Italian Herb Flatout with tomato sauce, four cheese, sausage meat, sweet Sopressata, banana peppers, red onion and mushrooms

They’re easy to prepare and absolutely delicious. Try them for your Oscars celebration!

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Jennifer Merin

Jennifer Merin is the Film Critic for Womens eNews and contributes the CINEMA CITIZEN blog for and is managing editor for Women on Film, the online magazine of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, of which she is President. She has served as a regular critic and film-related interviewer for The New York Press and About.com. She has written about entertainment for USA Today, The L.A. Times, US Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Endless Vacation Magazine, Daily News, New York Post, SoHo News and other publications. After receiving her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts (Grad Acting), Jennifer performed at the O'Neill Theater Center's Playwrights Conference, Long Wharf Theater, American Place Theatre and LaMamma, where she worked with renown Japanese director, Shuji Terayama. She subsequently joined Terayama's theater company in Tokyo, where she also acted in films. Her journalism career began when she was asked to write about Terayama for The Drama Review. She became a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor after writing an article about Marketta Kimbrell's Theater For The Forgotten, with which she was performing at the time. She was an O'Neill Theater Center National Critics' Institute Fellow, and then became the institute's Coordinator. While teaching at the Universities of Wisconsin and Rhode Island, she wrote "A Directory of Festivals of Theater, Dance and Folklore Around the World," published by the International Theater Institute. Denmark's Odin Teatret's director, Eugenio Barba, wrote his manifesto in the form of a letter to "Dear Jennifer Merin," which has been published around the world, in languages as diverse as Farsi and Romanian. Jennifer's culturally-oriented travel column began in the LA Times in 1984, then moved to The Associated Press, LA Times Syndicate, Tribune Media, Creators Syndicate and (currently) Arcamax Publishing. She's been news writer/editor for ABC Radio Networks, on-air reporter for NBC, CBS Radio and, currently, for Westwood One's America In the Morning. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association in the Film, Documentary and TV branches and a voting member of the Black Reel Awards. For her AWFJ archive, type "Jennifer Merin" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).