Anthony F. Chiffolo

Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet really eating in Titanic? Where can one find recipes for the life-changing delicacies featured in Chocolat or Like Water for Chocolat? Even if you weren’t on the set with Kate or Leo or Johnny, you can enjoy some of the same sumptuous feasts and intriguing cuisines as your favorite movie characters.

Food has always been a key ingredient on the big screen, yet no book has ever been devoted to recreating the meals served in famous films. Now, for film buffs—and anyone else whose mouth has watered over on-screen culinary delights—there is the delicious Cooking with the Movies: Meals on Reels.

Cooking with the Movies recreates featured meals from 14 noted feature films—including Babette's Feast, Big Night, Chocolat, Goodfellas, Tampopo, Titanic, and Tortilla Soup—that span a wide range of cuisines and cultures, from French to Mexican to Japanese. Each chapter provides the menu and full recipes for preparing and cooking the dishes depicted on screen, with photos of how each can be served. Along with precise directions, the authors analyze the importance of the foods served and the context of the meals in the storyline of the film. Illuminated with plot summaries, dialogue from the movies, and interviews with actors, Cooking with the Movies provides fascinating behind-the-scenes insights for "foodies" and film buffs alike.

Features
• Recipes allow readers to recreate food from the movies
• Illustrations include stills from the movies, as well as photos of each dish
• Numerous sidebars highlight "fun facts" and other entertaining information

Highlights
• Features hundreds of recipes for dishes that appear in 14 well-known films
• Discusses how food illuminates the characters and conflicts and advances the storyline of each film
• Covers a wide range of cuisines including French (several varieties); Italian (several varieties/​regions); Mexican; Vietnamese; Japanese; Soul Food/​Southern; English aristocracy; German bistro; and high-end American dinner fare

Cooking with the Movies includes complete recipes for meals from the following films:

Tampopo (Dandelion) (1985)
Babette’s Feast (Babettes gæstebud) (1987)
Goodfellas (1990)
Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) (1992)
Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored (1995)
Big Night (1996)
Titanic (1997)
Chocolat (2000)
Dinner Rush (2000)
What’s Cooking? (2000)
Gosford Park (2001)
Mostly Martha (Bella Marta) (2001)
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Waitress (2007)