Tribute to Food on Film

Feast, a Thanksgiving tribute to images of food on film by Matt Zoller Seitz. This video comes from this Post on Moving Image Source.

Food on Film

Today I am posting my three favorite film scenes that focus on food. The clips below are all in different languages, but I don't think you need to have any idea what is being said to appreciate the what is going on.

Big Night (1996) with Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini.



Babette's Feast (1987) - Based on a short story by one of my favorite writers, the Baroness Blixen, AKA Isak Dinesen. With the winnings from a lottery, Babette prepares a lavish feast for members of an austere religious sect who gave her refuge.





The Leopard (1963) directed by Luchino Visconti based on the book by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The film has an international cast, including Burt Lancaster. Where the other two films are intimate, this one is vast. This is probably one of the most lavish banquet scenes ever filmed.

Watermelon

An article from the Washington Post on one of my biggest pet peeves, seedless watermelon. I have never had a seedless watermelon that didn't remind me of styrofoam.

Watermelons: What happened to the seeds?

Food from the 40's

Following yesterday's photographs from the 30's and 40's, here is Mark Kurlansky discussing his book The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food—before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal. This book is collection of essays on American food created as part of the Federal Writers Project just prior to the start of WWII. Like the photographs from yesterday's post, the essays in this book are from the Library of Congress. I was in the audience for this talk.

Maryland State Dessert

A video about the Maryland State Dessert, the Smith Island Cake.

5-Second Rule Flow Chart

From the A new way to think about the 5-second rule in the Los Angelos Times

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