Negroni Cocktail

It is exactly 101 years since the Italian Count Negroni invented his cocktail in Florence. After visiting the American Wild West, he was no longer satisfied with his favorite cocktail, the Americano, and asked for an extra tic in the form of gin instead of water. The bartender added an orange peel and voila, the […]

Scallops with caviar

Ratatouille is an animated film, but the makers have done everything to make the kitchen and the food as real and professional as possible. Everyone has their station: the saucier, the rotisseur, the garde manger (cold kitchen), the sous-chef and the chef of course. The kitchen scenes were recently shown to professional chefs and they […]

Boeuf Bourguignon

Not just any boeuf bourguignon, but Julia Childs boeuf bourguignon! In the movie JulieJulia, the dish is prepared no less than three times. The first time it burns, the second time it is bland, but the third time it is “yum!”. Step by step to the best Burgundy stew, based on the film ánd Julia […]

Chocolate Lava Cake

Hmmm, apparently a chocolate cake like this is not for everyone. In this fragment from the film Chef, chef Carl Casper ‘subtly’ explains to his critic what the difference is between an undercooked cake and a real chocolate lava cake. So here follows a successive undercooked and a real lava cake recipe. We at Cinema […]

Step by step Cubano

For a ham and cheese sandwich, the Cubano is creating more of a furor than you might expect. In the 19th century, Cubans could easily travel to Florida, and they brought their favorite sandwich with them. Tradition has it that the sandwich only became what it is today in Miami/Key West. There is a regional […]

Korean chicken

The movie Chef is set from Los Angeles to Miami, via New Orleans, but Korea, no, they really don’t visit there with the food truck. So how did this recipe end up in the movie? One answer: Roy Choi, the film’s Korean culinary director.