What are some of your favorite Cooking themed movies (or cooking scenes from a movie)?

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One of my favorite movies of all time - The Odd Couple - had a number of food scenes, but my favorite was when Oscar (Walter Matthau) made some comments about some "spaghetti" Felix (Jack Lemmon) had made, and Felix started sort of snickering, with that snooty look on his face, and Oscar wondered what was so funny? Felix replied "It's not spaghetti, It's linguni! Oscar picked up the plate, and threw it through a door, onto a wall in the kitchen, and replied "It's garbage now!
 
I don't remember watching many food related movies, but this movie is in my all time favourite top five movies. Tampopo. It's entertaining and wonderfully bizarre. It has a main story and lots of vignettes. Here's the Wikipedia article about it. Tampopo
 
I don't remember watching many food related movies, but this movie is in my all time favourite top five movies. Tampopo. It's entertaining and wonderfully bizarre. It has a main story and lots of vignettes. Here's the Wikipedia article about it. Tampopo
I *loved* Tampopo! An awesome movie!

There are so many movies with great food scenes. My earliest memory of one has to be with the spaghetti dinner with The Lady and the Tramp! As for just a fun movie based around food, I loved Like Water for Chocolate!
 
I also like the scene in Spanglish, the Adam Sadler ( a chef in the movie) is preparing himself a nice sandwich after a long day at work. Just as he sits down, relaxes and is about to take his first bite, he gets yelled at ( which totally ruins his experience).

 
I really enjoyed Julie & Julia, and was reading recently, the person that the movie was written about, died. Her name was Julie Powell, she had a previous arrhythmia then died of a heart attack, at age 49. Her and her husband had covid the month before. She saw a doctor a day or two before she died for black hairy tongue (covid symptom). I felt so sad at her dying so young from atherosclerosis. It's so unfair that the first symptom of atherosclerosis can be a heart attack. Not everyone makes it past that.
 
I really enjoyed Julie & Julia, and was reading recently, the person that the movie was written about, died. Her name was Julie Powell, she had a previous arrhythmia then died of a heart attack, at age 49. Her and her husband had covid the month before. She saw a doctor a day or two before she died for black hairy tongue (covid symptom). I felt so sad at her dying so young from atherosclerosis. It's so unfair that the first symptom of atherosclerosis can be a heart attack. Not everyone makes it past that.
She died of cardiac arrest, not a heart attack. What makes you think she had atherosclerosis? Lots of things can cause the heart to stop beating.
 
Well, I don't think it really matters what she died from, it truly is just sad that she died so young, I did not know. It was a great movie, Julie Julia, and I will watch it again.
My other favorites are Ratatouille, Chocolat, and Hundred Foot Journey. More movies that will be easy to watch again. These were really ALL about food.

I'm putting Tampopo and Like Water for Chocolate on my list.

There are 2 or 3 series, names of which I have forgotten, one that actually talked, involved and used food and other food related topics as their story line... (I'll find the names)
But the others - really not much related to actual food other than being a restaurant and cooking as a background to the histrionics of the main characters.
I'm sure I've seen Chef but can't find it and don't remember.
 
"Jewel In The Palace" aka "Dae Jang Geum".

S.Korea 2004, 54 episodes.

Not sure how far S. Korea's food has come in the picture for the members here.
In Amsterdam there are a few restaurants, and a few in the rest of the country.
Some other European countries have far more.
Specially in the countries where "good food" is still a popular thing.

I like Kdrama anyway, but will not post about that here all the time.
Except for "Jewel In The Palace"

Based on real history : How a very young orphan-girl comes in the Palace.
Blessed with good brains, in the end she will become the only female private doctor ever in Korea's history.
Knowledge and understanding the use of herbs and spices. Which combinations to do or not. The traditional Asian kitchen, that more or les is the base of variations in separate countries .
This drama beats all other movies and cooking-shows.
Every episode feels like a movie by itself.
Suspense, drama, intrigues, good-acting. And educating on the go !

The drama kicked off the Korean Wave , with a few others, and also inspired many in and outside Asia to improve for better and healthier cooking.

Star-actress Lee Young Ae really went into it too.
She has a large 100% organic and professional garden in Korea.

( ps. Open for correction and comments !)

 
I'm currently watching the movie "Chef". I've seen it multiple times in the past. About a popular chef who got a crappy review from a food critic.
Ah, ‘Chef’ – a culinary rollercoaster! The passion, the drama, and those mouthwatering Cuban sandwiches – they’re etched in my memory. And that food truck journey? Pure inspiration! 🚚👨‍🍳🔥
Keep enjoying the movie, and may your kitchen adventures be just as flavorful!
 
Ah, ‘Chef’ – a culinary rollercoaster! The passion, the drama, and those mouthwatering Cuban sandwiches – they’re etched in my memory. And that food truck journey? Pure inspiration! 🚚👨‍🍳🔥
Keep enjoying the movie, and may your kitchen adventures be just as flavorful!
Welcome to DC.
 
A few movies about food that I've enjoyed are "The Hundred-Foot Journey" with Helen Mirren, "Chocolat" with Juliette Binoche and "Chef" with Jon Favreau.
Yeah love those a lot and amoung the best imo along with most of what's already been said. I'll add "Big Night" with Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver and Isabella Rossellini set in the Jersey shores in the 50's, Two brothers offereing real Italian food while competing with a local restaurant that serves American Italian from a flamboyant owner, love it.

The other one that comes to mind is "Babette's Feast" A Danish film and the first Oscar for Denmark for best foreign film. Babette was a famous French chef and basically a refuge from Paris during the revolution that end up in a convent, so to speak on the coast of Denmark who according to instruction served the daily "gruel" Well Babette won a lottery in Paris through contacts she had in Paris and decided to offer the convent a real French Feast, and they accepted.
 
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Yeah love those a lot and amoung the best imo along with most of what's already been said. I'll add "Big Night" with Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver and Isabella Rossellini set in the Jersey shores in the 50's, Two brothers offereing real Italian food while competing with a local restaurant that serves American Italian from a flamboyant owner, love it.

The other one that comes to mind is "Babette's Feast" A Danish film and the first Oscar for Denmark for best foreign film. Babette was a famous French chef and basically a refuge from Paris during the revolution that end up in a convent, so to speak on the coast of Denmark who according to instruction served the daily "gruel" Well Babette won a lottery in Paris through contacts she had in Paris and decided to offer the convent a real French Feast, and they accepted.
I remember watching that on "First Choice", I think it was called. Canada's first commercial free, movie channel through cable. Anyhoo, I watched it numerous times, because I could and I liked it. Actually, along with Tampopo, it is in my 4 top favourite movies list. I don't remember the line anymore, but there was one line where the subtitle wasn't exactly what was said in Danish. (Yes, I speak Danish. It's my first language.) I noticed it in particular, because it was even better than the Danish. It was a tiny change, something about the turtle or the turtle soup.

I nearly peed myself laughing that they were teaching her to make "øllebrød", that porridge. It's not actually as bad as it sounds. It's sometimes made as a dessert version.
 
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