[Sca-cooks] OT OOP: Movies Featuring Food

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Christine Seelye-King:
>"The Big Night" - make or break dinner for Italian brothers (?) trying to
>make a go of a restaurant.

Yup. Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub are the respective owner/manager 
and partner/chef of a dying little Italian restaurant in 1950's 
Atlantic City, NJ. A competitor (a Philistine food-whore who serves 
spaghetti and meatballs on the same plate, so obviously very 
successful among a distinctly food-ignorant, tasteless, tacky and 
wealthy clientele), supposedly doing them a favor, promises to 
arrange a party to be hosted by the brothers at their restaurant for 
Louis Prima and his band, which is supposed to suddenly transform 
their restaurant into a world-famous night-spot...

Apart from scenes detailing the creation of a timpano di maccherone, 
which pretty much has to be seen to be believed, I especially love 
the bit where the tacky customers don't appreciate the seafood 
risotto (which has no actual seafood in it, only its concentrated 
essence), and wonder why it doesn't come with a side of spaghetti, 
leading to the chef's suggestion that he replace it on the menu 
with... "'ow you say... 'ot dog? Tee Vee Deenner?"

I often find myself feeling that way...

Adamantius, who doesn't hold his breath waiting for the world to 
change, but still wants it to