Cooking/Food in the Media

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I've always been interested in the way kitchens, cooks, food and eating are portrayed in the media. Of course we all enjoy cookbooks and the Food Netwrok, but what about others media vehicles?

For instance, what are your favorite food-themed books or movies?

Tonight I am re-watching Disney's "Ratatoulle" which I love! I also enjoy the foodie-movies/books: "What's Cooking", "Like Water For Chocolate" and "Babette's Feast". (One of my all-time FAV food-scenes in a movie is in Spielberg's "The Color Purple" where the Whoopie Goldberg character, "Celie" prepares a delicious breakfast of sunny-side-up eggs, pancakes, & a ham-steak, sizzling in a big cast-iron skillet on a wood-burning stove! The cameras zoom way-in so close you can almost feel the grease from the pan pop on your chin and burn it!) Did any of you watch the PBS chef sit-com series "Chef!"?

A couple other good ones this past year were Catherine Zeta-Jones' "No Reservations" (Filmed about 75% in a restaurant kitchen, Catherine character is the Chef of a high-end restaurant in love w/ a new staffer), and Diane Keaton's "Because I Said So" (Diane's character has a daughter who is a catering chef and cooking figures into the plot quite a bit.)

What about YOU? Any favs?

[Jafo232]

Hmm, cannot think of any cooking shows right off the top of my head that are must watches. I think I just like to see what certain chefs are doing so as to give me ideas to use in my own creations but I cannot say I Tivo a series just to see what they are cooking today..

I did like the Ratatoulle movie though!

Still thinking about it..

[KYHeirloomer]

I loved "Ratatoulle" and thoroughly enjoyed "No Reservations." And what was that one with Queen Latifa, where she's supposedly dying, so cashes in and makes a world-tour of great restaurants.

But my favorite all-time food-in-movies is the breakfast scene in "My Cousin Vinnie."

Just how do you cook a grit?

[Mama Mangia]

Another "Ratatoulle" fan!

I love to see the kitchens in the movies and documentaries on TV! Any kitchen - from Blondie and Dagwood, Aunt Bea, re-enactments from any era - I don't care. I've always had this thing about kitchens/cooking etc.

Glad to see someone else enjoys them too!

BTW - Love the kitchens in the castles!!!

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Gotta think about this one! .....well my list is too long, but I think "Fried Green Tomatoes" was my favorite as far as kitchen scenes go (when they got flour everywhere), and I especially loved the "Bee Charmer" and when the jar of honey just showed up! That just warmed my heart!

P.S.
Oops......I guess the movie was not exactly food themed but it was my favorite!

[jglass]

My husband would probably say his fav is the scene in When Harry Met Sally when they are in the diner. He says when your blind its all about the sound effects lol.
For me I have to say my fav is Ratatoulle.