Did I mention that I love food? Well, I also love movies — great, visual, audio, food-for-thought, movies! Awhile ago, we visited a place that had posters framed and mounted on their walls that were all about movies that were all about food. "What a wonderful thing!" I thought.
So I started my own list of movies about food. The most recent one was a Lifetime T.V. Christmas movie, called "Recipe for a Perfect Christmas," made in 2005. They aired it this December 2010. It's starring Carly Pope, Christine Baranski, and Bobby Cannavale, was written by Rachel Feldman and Susan Nanus, and was directed by Sheldon Larry.
It's about a young woman who is suddenly promoted to Food Critic for a prominent New York City food magazine, just a few weeks before Christmas. Her mother unexpectedly shows up to stay with her, and a young man desperately seeks her food review because he is about to be evicted before he gets a chance to show the City what a great chef he is and what a great new restaurant he has to offer.
I liked everything that had to do with preparing and presenting various foods, and the fact that she could always identify the contents of something just by tasting one bite. I also enjoyed the fantasy that she could eat anything and everything that she wanted and still remain an attractive and slender young woman! And in the end, it also sounded like she could write pretty well too. It was light hearted and fun.
Here's my list of movies about food so far (in alphabetical order) — I haven't seen them all yet:
1. Babette’s Feast
2. Cafe au Lait
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4. Clue
5. Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
6. Diner
7. Eat Drink Man Woman
8. Food Safari: Breakfast
9. Food Safari: Lunch
10. Julie and Julia
11. King Corn
12. Lady Iron Chef
13. Like Water For Chocolate
14. Mystic Pizza
15. Ratatouille
16. Recipe for a Perfect Christmas
17. Tampopo
18. The French Chef with Julia Child
19. The Real Dirt on Farmer John
20. The Secret Life of Bees
21. What’s Cooking?
