Watch movies about food or films that have scenes with really good food cooking in them. Mmmm, I’m just thinking about that scene in Goodfellas, in which the guys in prison are making spaghetti sauce and slicing the garlic with a razor blade. Man, that scene really made me crave spaghetti with heaps of meat sauce.
The latest culinary treat to hit the big screen is Julie and Julia, opening Aug. 7. It stars Amy Adams and Meryl Streep and is based on the real-life adventures of Julie Powell (Adams), who cooked her way through Child’s (Streep) best-selling cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking for one year and blogged about it. Here’s the trailer:
This is something my mother should do, since she LOVES to cook. I’ve been telling her to do a recipe blog for years now. Let’s think of some other great movies centered around food:
Babette’s Feast : A lovely Dutch/Danish film about a famous 19th century French chef, who, after some tragedy befalls her, ends up living with two spinster ladies in a remote seaside village and cooking for them. The sisters don’t know how good a cook she is, but when the chef wins the lottery and decides to make a traditional French feast for them and their friends, they start to get the idea. It’s one fffing amazing meal.
Like Water for Chocolate: Another lovely film, this time from Mexico, about a young woman torn from the man she loves by her family, who then literally pours her emotions into the food she cooks.
Ratatouille: OK, granted, it’s animated food, but it still looks really good — especially prepared by a rat with a certain flair for culinary delights!
Chocolat: For the chocolate lovers in us all, this tale is about a chocolate shop owner and her daughter, who literally blow into a small French town and end up changing the lives of its denizens with her sweet treats. Yummy.
I know there’s a ton more, so let me know some of your favorites. Just register on the site and leave your comments!