Posts Tagged “food flick”
Are you missing something — some taste, some food memory…? Maybe you’ve been missing a super-foodie movie — a movie in Spanish, English, Catalan, Portuguese, and Japanese — all at once? Director Roger Gual lets you do just that, with a cast including Jan Cornet, Claudia Bassols, Stephen Rea, Fionnula Flanagan, Timothy Gibbs, Marta Torné,…
OraTV‘s America Cooks With Chefs recently interviewed Mary Sue Milliken about how to keep off weight while eating from her Modern Mexican recipes. Enjoy!
BBC News “PopUp” video journalist Benjamin Zand reports on how the Conflict Kitchen kicked up controversy and brought antagonists to its table to break bread and talk. Enjoy!
Based on the song “The Lone Fish Ball” (1855) by George Marshall Lane, the song got a reworking by Tin Pan Alley as “One Meat Ball” (1944), recorded by blues and folk singer Josh White — a little late for the Great Depression itself, but fresh in people’s minds (and stomachs). While Josh White’s recording…
Is the way to a man’s heart through his stomach? Find out how the Indians do it: watch this trailer from The Lunchbox (“Dabba”). (Coming to U.S. theaters as of February 28, 2014.) Enjoy!
Is heaven on earth — at least, food heaven? The BBC may have found it — in Japan — and it’s for kids. This is a country where one can run a business called “Bento for Kids. That’s because, as the BBC reports, in Japan “A dry sandwich in tinfoil just won’t do: the packed…
For Mesamerica 2014, see chefs Mario Batali and Danny Bowien battle it out in a war of words… Enjoy! Mesamerica Batali Bowien from Mesamérica on Vimeo.
Hear chefs Tony Mantuano and Mary Sue Milliken talk about how they will approach America Cooks with Chefs: The 800 Calorie Challenge. Listen for a little bravado and bluster as each chef contemplates competitive aspects… (This is a a new joint initiative between the Clinton Foundation and the James Beard Foundation.) Enjoy! Chef’s Challenge from…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/abitoffryandlaurie/index.shtml Some time between the making of Jeeves & Wooster, Peter’s Friends, and House came a refreshing show called A Bit of Fry and Laurie, starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. In the following scene, Fry attempts to make a salad while discussing his latest theatre outings. Enjoy!
From late 1967 to mid-1969, Britain’s Do Not Adjust Your Set warmed up England to humor soon to come from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In this skit, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Eric Idle with David Jacob and Denise Coffey offer unsolicited and highly silly advice about “How To Eat.” Enjoy!
In this our final in a series of Food Flicks that celebrate Horn & Hardart‘s Automat, we see a scene from the dystopian Dark City. In this late 1990s flick, Rufus Sewell is clearly trying to get his wallet back at an Automat. Enjoy — with coffee and a slice of pie. (With thanks to…
In this our sixth in a series of Food Flicks that celebrate Horn & Hardart‘s Automat, we see a scene from the comedy The Catered Affair. In this mid-1950s flick, Jane (Debbie Reynolds) and Ralph (Rod Taylor) talks wedding talk in an Automat. Enjoy — with coffee and a slice of pie. (With thanks to…
In this our fifth in a series of Food Flicks that celebrate Horn & Hardart‘s Automat, we see a scene from the comedy Just This Once. In this 1952 flick, Lucille Duncan (Janet Leigh) takes playboy Mark MacLene (Peter Lawford) at an Automat. Enjoy — with coffee and a slice of pie. (With thanks to…
In this our fourth in a series of Food Flicks that celebrate Horn & Hardart‘s Automat, we see a scene from the 1949 Ealing Studios comedy A Run for Your Money. In this post-WWII flick, David ‘Dai Number 9’ Jones (Donald Houston) and Thomas ‘Twm’ Jones (Meredith Edwards) dine at an Automat-like eatery. Enjoy —…
In this our first in a series of Food Flicks that celebrate Horn & Hardart‘s Automat, we see a scene from the 1934 comedy Sadie McKee. In this Great Depression-era flick, Sadie (Joan Crawford) is hungrily eyeing an half-eaton piece of pie. Enjoy — with coffee and a slice of pie. (With thanks to Atlantic…