There is a memorable early scene in “Bringing Up Baby” involving olives, so I knew I had to make something with them for this pairing.

I’m not a big fan of olives on their own, but I do love tapenade. This recipe is vegan and gluten-free, making about 12 “servings” of tapenade.

Ingredients
1.5 cups olives, pitted
1 tablespoon capers
0.25 cups parsley
0.25 cups garlic-infused olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions
Make sure your olives are pitted. The olives can be whichever type you prefer or a combination of a couple varieties. We used kalamata olives and black olives.

Finely chop the olives, capers and parsley. You can do this by hand or with a food processor. Note that the final texture should be a little chunky, not a puree.

If you use a food processor, you can also add the garlic-infused olive oil and lemon juice when you pulse the other three ingredients.

If you don’t have a food processor, mix the chopped olives, capers and parsley in a bowl with the oil and juice.

Serve with your favorite bread or crackers!

The Easy Route
We used dried parsley, which is ideal here since it has to be finely chopped anyway.

You can also find premade tapenade at many stores, and it is usually vegan and gluten-free.

The Pairing
I love the pairing of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn! I started this blog with “The Philadelphia Story,” and I knew it wouldn’t take me too long to also include this week’s pick, “Bringing Up Baby.”

Romantic comedies, especially the screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s, are my favorite genre, and these two films are at the top of the heap, along with some others I’ll likely be writing about here in the future.

“Bringing Up Baby” follows the unlikely pairing of a paleontologist, David Huxley (Grant), and a socialite, Susan Vance (Hepburn). Throw a leopard named Baby into the mix, and you really have a party.

The three of them find themselves at a country house, where Baby runs away at the same time a more vicious leopard escapes from the circus. Chaos ensues.

Grant and Hepburn are always wonderful together, one of the most iconic on-screen duos of all time.

I’ve seen this movie quite a few times, and they both always manage to make me laugh, both in their scenes together and apart.

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