Like many parents, I’m sure, we took our kids to see WALL-E last year, and frankly we were a bit disappointed. Not in the movie itself, but in the way it was marketed as a funny kids’ flick. It was way over their heads (they were 5 & 9), and they didn’t enjoy it much – [...]
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I finally got around to watching The Future of Food this weekend. By now this movie has become one of the cornerstones of the local/organic/sustainable movement, often quoted and referred to and listed as a resource by such writers as Michael Pollan among others. But somehow it had sat at the foot of my Netflix [...]
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Last week I finally watched Our Daily Bread, a documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter about industrialized food production in Europe. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it highly (and so did the New York Times, LA Times, and a host of other reviewers!) There are a plethora of movies and videos produced on this subject by [...]
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Looking for a fun Chinese movie (or 2) for the dvd player? Check out pre-Brokeback-Mountain Ang Lee: his Eat, Drink, Man, Woman and The Wedding Banquet both explore “ethnic and sexual conflicts in a Chinese family, with meals as a centerpiece of the film.”(Janet Maslin, New York Times) You’ll see some fantastic banquet-style Chinese cooking – [...]
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