[Sca-cooks] OT OOP: Movies Featuring Food

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach lilinah at earthlink.net:
>I arfing freezing here - to save money i'm keeping my heat down - 
>and it's 63 in my apt. I leave my coat and hat on all the time i'm 
>home. I'm knitting a wool shawl and i got my unfinished wool mittens 
>out to work on, too.
>
>So i figured with the long dark nights of winter, there's nothing 
>like cuddling up draped in all the woolen fabric i bought for garb 
>that i haven't sewn yet and watching some films.
>
>I'm making my own list of dark contemporary noirish stuff to rent, 
>but in keeping with at least part of the topic of this list... 
>besides Vatel, which we've discussed before, what other food 
>oriented films (don't have to period or near period) do folks 
>recommend?
>
>Or is this just too far away from Medieval and Renaissance Food to 
>be tolerated?

My two favorites (since "Vatel" was already mentioned repeatedly): 
"Big Night", and "The God of Cookery" (Stephen Chiao, the man 
responsible for "Shaolin Soccer", doing a very mean spoof of "Iron 
Chef").

Adamantius