Oh, That Looks Good: Movies For Foodies

Burnt (2015) - Bradley Cooper as a chef who opens a London restaurant with Michelin 3 star potential
The Great British Bake Off (2010) BBC, but moves to Channel 4.
Chef (2014)
Somm (2012)
Somm: Into the Bottle (2015) - History of Wine
A Year in Burgundy (2013)
A Year in Champagne (2014)

To clarify, I'm the antithesis of a "foodie"; I simply enjoy these films and TV programmes.

1) Jiro dreams of Sushi

2) The restaurant scene in The French Connection

My pick is definitely "Julie and Julia," but R-Kane I think I will check out "Big Night" as well! That sounds like a good film. I posted about "Julie and Julia" just recently as a matter of fact. I never finished the book, but I read enough of it to know that the movie is better, way better!!

Whatever you do skip " The Cook, The Thief His Wife Her Lover with Helen Mirren "😆

Not gourmet per se, but if you are talking about a movie that will make you crave some food, The Search For General Tso is one. My Facebook friends who always recommends the best Netflix movies to me messaged me and said you have to see this movie, but get yourself some Chinese food to to eat while you're watching or you'll be miserable. I like to eat food so I went out and got General Tso's and watched the movie and it was a really interesting doc, but he was not wrong about the craving. I have put off watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi for the same reason because I never seem to remember to watch it when I have sushi on hand.

On the other hand there is an anti-food movie of sorts about a chef called 301, 302 which is actually the only movie that ever made me nauseated.

Okay, my first and only thought about this topic is not about any film that is in general food porn of any kind. In fact, it's only about one brief scene, but gets me every time anyway.

It's towards the end of Moonstruck where Cher's mother is in that wonderful (huge!) old kitchen, frying eggs broken into the middle of pieces of Italian bread. You'd think by now I've have tried to make it because 1) mouth-watering! and 2) has GOT to be incredibly easy to make. Yet, all these years later, I've never made it. And every time I've seen Moonstruck I get unfailingly hungry during that scene, and wonder anew WHY I'VE NEVER MADE THIS!

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