Picking up on those same themes in Babette’s Feast, Chocolat is a magical little tale of the outsider tempting the staid, pious, uptight locals to embrace more fully life and its many delectable delights. RELATED: REVIEW: CHOCOLAT – A CHARMING FEEL-GOOD MOVIE Chocolat (2000) Juliet Binoche in Chocolat. It’s a beautiful period drama on the generous nature of true gratitude. This gem is based on a novella by Karen Blixen and won an Oscar for best foreign film. A seven-course meal that awakens passions and long-repressed dreams and joys and grievances and fans many a revelation. Photo: Nordisk Film.Ī grey and windswept village on the Danish moors, inhabited by pious Protestants, who prize austerity and asceticism, is served an unforgettable meal. Babette’s Feast (1987) Feasting in Babette’s Feast. Pies with names like, “I CAN’T HAVE NO AFFAIR BECAUSE IT’S WRONG AND I DON’T WANT EARL TO KILL ME-pie” (vanilla custard with banana – hold the banana) or “KICK IN THE PANTS-pie” (cinnamon spice custard) or “BAD BABY-pie” (quiche with brie and smoked ham).Ī delectable watch about a woman baking and taking charge of her life.Ĥ. She bakes her frustrations and her hopes and her longings and her regrets and her worries into pies. Trapped in a dead-end love affair with her married doctor (Nathan Fillion). Caught in a minimum wage job waiting tables. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a deadbeat. Waitress (2007) Cheryl Hines, Kerri Russell and Adrienne Shelly in Waitress. But what happens when an immigrant son finds love with a chef across the road? And what happens when that immigrant son has culinary aspirations beyond his mom’s tried-and-true recipes? Aspirations that might just bridge an ocean of one hundred feet?Ī heartwarming film about food and family and forging your own way.ģ. What happens when French haute cuisine meets the traditional home-cooking of Mumbai? Well, a Romeo-and-Juliet-like feud ensues in the small French village, where the established Michelin-starred French restaurant clashes with the newly established immigrant restaurant with its foreign spices.Īlthough the restaurants are only separated by one hundred feet, it might as well be an ocean. RELATED: THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (2014) FILM REVIEW – A BEAUTIFUL EXPLORATION OF CULTURE, FAMILY AND FOOD The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) If this film doesn’t make you hungry, you are watching it wrong. It’s whizzing words in a bustling industrial kitchen in this tale, where a woman eventually drops her guard and declares her love by sharing a recipe or two.Ģ. Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is the buoyant, charming, devil-may-care sous-chef, who is the polar opposite of controlling, perfectionist Kate. The restaurant owner decides to hire a new sous-chef to aid Kate. Devastated, Kate struggles to juggle her work responsibilities with her new parental ones. Her world is turned upside down when she suddenly becomes the guardian of her niece after her sister dies in a car accident. Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is a no-nonsense, perfectionist head chef at a trendy New York restaurant. No Reservations (2007) Aaron Eckhart and Catherine Zeta-Jones in No Reservations. Mouthwatering Tales: 20 Films for Foodiesġ. So, here are twenty mouthwatering tales for the romantic foodie, films for foodies that tickle the taste buds while nurturing love. We gather still around kitchen tables now. The hearth is the heart of the home, they say. We gathered around the fire in ages past. The act of eating together – commensality – is one of the most instinctually human. And feelings often find form in food – food that we share with others and that we ingest ourselves. We’re wired to eat, and we’re wired to make social connections, to love. Succoring souls and nourishing love often mean nourishing bellies. And, while surely there is more to finding and maintaining love than just eating and feeding your way to it, there is assuredly also a link between love and food. There’s that old saying about how the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
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