Filmfood blog

Discover Cinema Culinair’s film food blog here, where we write about food, cooking, recipes, events, films with passion!

  • Soul Kitchen
  • The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • The Lunchbox

Multicultural Eating Films: The Power of Eating in a Diverse World

The Power of Eating in a Diverse World Food connects. We all know that. But in an increasingly globalised world, this connection becomes extra special, especially in big cities where diverse cultures converge and mix. The following films, which we can safely label as multicultural food films, beautifully portray this fusion. They show how food […]

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  • Tampopo
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

TOP 5 ‘VISUAL WORKS OF ART’

TOP 5 ‘VISUAL WORKS OF ART’ You have films that touch you because of the content. You have films that touch you because you sympathise so immensely with the protagonist. And…. You have films that touch you because visually they capture your imagination so immensely. Which culinary films are true works of art, with every […]

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  • Babette’s Feast
  • La Grande Bouffe
  • Tampopo
  • The Menu

Not just feel-good, but also social criticism

Not just feel-good, but also social criticism Some people like ant-sweet romance. Others like films that make you think. Which films from the past 50 years make a bid for ‘tastiest socially critical film’ that not only makes you enjoy it with all your senses, but also makes your brain crack. Food as a powerful […]

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  • Como Agua Para Chocolate

The magical Mexican cuisine

Mexican films and books This is easy to recognize: sooner or later a ghost appears in the story. Mexican cultural history of Aztec and Maya is combined with Spanish Catholic beliefs, so the supernatural is never very far away. The Mexican celebration of Dia de Muertos (the Day of the Dead on Nov. 2) is […]

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  • Estômago
  • Recipe

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 […]

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  • Ratatouille
  • Recipe

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 […]

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  • Julie Julia
  • Recipe

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 […]

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  • Toast

Bittersweet toast

For a Dutch audience, the film Toast and its protagonist Nigel may need an introduction. Not many people in the Low Countries will know the British chef / TV cook and writer Nigel Slater. So high time for an introduction of Toast! Nigel Slater Kitchen in Rosemary’s Baby Toast is the name of Nigel Slater’s […]

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  • Chef
  • Recipe

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 […]

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  • Chef
  • Recipe

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 […]

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  • Chef
  • Recipe

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.

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  • Burnt
  • Chocolate
  • Julie Julia
  • Ratatouille
  • The Menu

vacation inspiration

Travel after your favorite food movie Still looking for inspiration for a nice vacation spot this summer? Maybe it would be really fun to look up the village or town where your favorite food movie was shot. Do you really like the movie Chocolat? Then visit Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (pictured above) in Burgundy, where this movie was […]

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