The Best Movies For Food Enthusiasts
Week 3 in self isolating and I have been baking lots of bread and watching lots of movies!!! It just dawned on me yesterday too that February marked the blog’s 4th birthday (ohhhhlala!). I started pulling analytics and recipes are still some of my strongest posts! So I know you all love to see what I am cooking and eating so I definitely can commit to bringing you more of that content.
I started to think about where I find inspiration to do what I do. Sometimes it’s instinct and a natural love for cooking. (I am no pro..I just enjoy it and have really come a long way. I once was the girl that used her stove for sweater storage) Sometimes it’s from a compelling storyline or dining experience. Though I’m not a movie-critic, I know what I like, and if there’s a food-theme, I’ll watch it.
So this week, I’m sharing some wonderful movies for foodies. If you love cooking and eating then these films are for you!!!
Chef (2014)
Chef Carl Casper is presented with a choice: Continue cooking the restaurant owner’s standard menu or create innovative dishes for the upcoming visit from a restaurant critic. Forced to cook the standard menu which resulted in a negative review, Casper gets into a social media war which costs him his job. Carl decides to follow his passion, with support from his son, to venture out and start his own food truck brand.
The Lunchbox(2013)
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Chocolat (2000)
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. I honestly could have very well included this in my francophile movie list too!
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2011)
A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu. This documentary is beautiful and makes me so hungry!! I love sushi!!
Ratatouille (2007)
A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant. (This is animated but at 40 years old..I can still watch it) This could have easily made the francophile list too!
The Trip (2010)
Steve Coogan has been asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, but after his girlfriend backs out on him he must take his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Spinning Plates (2012)
A documentary about three unique restaurants and their respective owners.
Julie & Julia (2009)
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.
No Reservations (2007)
The life of a top chef changes when she becomes the guardian of her young niece.
The Trip To Italy (2014)
Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.
Burnt (2015)
Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) is a chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Toast (2010)
The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s Britain. It is based on the memoir by Nigel Slater.
Spanglish (2014)
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
Mostly Martha (2001)
When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.
Waiting (2005)
Young employees at Shenaniganz restaurant collectively stave off boredom and adulthood with their antics.
Le Chef (2012)
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
ENJOY!!
