Another year — and decade! — of eating has come to an end, and with it, I have a few 2009 food honors to hand out. This is movie award season after all, and being a huge movie nut (Avatar is mind-blowing and Up in … Read More →
If someone were to ask, “Should I see Julie & Julia in the theater or wait for the DVD?”, I’d answer, “Sure, it’s theater-worthy, especially a matinee, but you’d also be okay waiting.” The movie turned out to be almost exactly what I expected: good, … Read More →
John Hughes died yesterday. For anyone who grew up in the 80s, it’s a sad day. Not to be cliche about it, but for my money, Hughes’s movies defined our era: Vacation, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off… I … Read More →
Meryl Streep! Amy Adams! Passion. Ambition. Butter. Do you have what it takes? Am I describing Doubt 2: Nuns in the Kitchen? Nope, I’m talking about Julie & Julia, a movie coming out this summer that should interest any food lover. (And I didn’t make up … Read More →
An Uneven “Forks Over Knives”
It occurred to me about halfway through the new documentary Forks Over Knives that the movie was a disguised call to veganism. See, the word is never uttered, but rather the phrase “whole food, plant-based diet.” I’m imagining the filmmakers at a pitch meeting saying, … Read More →