How ‘GoodFellas’ gave us the greatest cooking scene of all time

The world of film has no shortage of brilliant cooking scenes. If you don’t believe us, just check out our list of the top ten greatest celebrations of food in cinema. From Pixar’s Ratatouille to Stanley Tucci’s mouth-watering Big Night, directors have depicted the ritual of cooking and eating together time and time again. This scene from the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, in which mobster Henry Hill recalls how he and his gang made dinner in prison, is perhaps one of the most strangely heart...

Cake and TLS clips - Nov 2021 print edition

Pigs and Pork in Denmark

The United Fruit Company

The United Fruit Company By Pablo Neruda When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for itself the most succulent, the central coast of my own land, the delicate waist of America. It rechristened its territories as the ‘Banana Republics’ and over the sleeping dead, over the restless heroes who brought about the greatness, the liberty an...

You’re Food and Drink to Me - A Letter From Henry Miller to Anais Nin

In 1932, months after first meeting in Paris and despite both being married, celebrated Cuban diarist Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller—the hugely influential novelist responsible for writing the sexually explicit  (for  the times) novel Tropic of Cancer (1934), which Nin helped to finance—began a fiery love affair. The liaison would last for many years, a situation further  intensified by the fact that Nin also had an openly discussed affair, albeit brief, with Miller’s then-wife, June, as their ow...

Liquid Lunch: Milk Fed By Melissa Broder

Photo by Lord ByronA tale of paradoxes from start to finish, Milk Fed is a whirlwind of energy. Melissa Broder’s newest novel is a thirst-quenching mix of love, loneliness, sex, and insatiable appetites. Broder’s straightforward writing style encapsulates the complexities of modern life: the entanglement of mental illness with self-image, the jarring of same-sex love with orthodox religion. The theme of pleasure woven throughout offers readers an easy, and enticing, way in. A slim, attractive...

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Thanksgivings legacy of carry out is reviving

Thanksgivings legacy of carry out is reviving

TV Dinners?

Space Food Sticks (thing) by Whipster - Everything2.com

Space Food Sticks (thing) See all of Space Food Sticks, no other writeups in this node. by Whipster (5.3 mon) CC Rep: 23 ( +25 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Tue Aug 28 2001 at 12:40:09 (thing) 2 C!s · C? by Whipster (5.3 mon) When NASA began planning for space travel one of its first concerns was getting the astronauts fed. Fresh food was out of the question - it had to be prepared, and when eaten, it could spoil or break apart. NASA turned to food industry specialists for help on ...

The Fig Eater - by Iseult

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2The Fig Eater (thing)See all of The Fig Eater, no other writeups in this node.by Iseult (14 y)CC Rep: 3 ( +5 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Sun May 20 2001 at 13:07:49(thing) This writeup has been cooled by:   X by Iseult (14 y) This mystery book by Jody Shields is for people who usually don't like reading who-dunnit mysteries-or mysteries, in general. It takes place in 1910 Vienna and shows off all the research Shields did to ensure that her boo...

Eating Olives at the End of the World

Eating Olives at the End of the WorldAuthor: "The New York Review of Books" Ain't this the pits?‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌...

Excess Display craftsmanship gluttony hunger and what we ate

Consolidation of Food - The

Poetry as history

by guest contributor Dr. Will Pooley This post is the first installment of a forum on the genres in which we write history. A series of scholars will discuss the choices they make in communicating their research and reflect upon the suitability of various media. When academics discuss alternative genres for presenting histories, we tend to concentrate on the usual suspects: historical fiction, biography, documentaries, and film.[1] These genres all share significant commonalities w...

Dinner and a Movie: Analyzing Food and Film: Food, Culture & Society: Vol 9, No 1

Skip to Main Content Log in  |  Register Cart Search in: This Journal Advanced search Journal Food, Culture & Society An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Volume 9, 2006 - Issue 1 Submit an article Journal homepage 428 Views 3 CrossRef citations to date 0 Altmetric ...

significance of milk

Additional idea added 2 July 2021 -zasMilky plants, such as lettuces, dandelions, sow-thistles, are its favourite dish. In a neighbouring village one was kept till by tradition it was supposed to be an hundred years old. An instance of vast longevity in such a poor reptile! dateNov 12, 2019ZAS Note from 12 Nov 2019 Storytelling and Science -Milk - Significance of Milk may be generally about the general intelligence and adaptability of mammals, all of whom make milk. Also, MLK - Martin Lu...

Auberon Waugh on wine - and tales of a lost London - masculinity - future of immortality - Kierkegaard