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Chef du Cinema: Elevator to the Gallows
The improvisational arts of filmmaking, jazz, and chili.
Chef du Cinema: Quadrophenia
A culinary, cinematic, and musical institution is as endangered as the eels in the Thames.
Chef du Cinema: My Man Godfrey
I want to start with my favorite story about Carole Lombard. She began her career in Hollywood in her teens and, as we know, was very attractive. She found herself hounded by the wolves of Tinseltown but came up with an idea to thwart them. She had h…
Chef du Cinema: The Hit
A killer breakfast
Chef du Cinema: Rome Open City
Cabbage soup for the soul.
Chef du Cinema: The Royal Tenenbaums
The Chef whips up a sweet treat, using a recipe from a star of one of his favorite films in the collection, Wes Anderson’s candy-colored The Royal Tenenbaums.
Chef du Cinema: The Lady Vanishes
Sir Alfred Hitchcock once said, “I’m not a heavy eater. I’m just heavy, and I eat.”
Hitchcock’s father was a grocer, so we can assume young Alfie grew up knowing his way around food. His films are filled with food and eating motifs, from th…
Chef du Cinema: Crumb
When I was living in Haight-Ashbury in the second half of the 1970s, you’d still see Robert Crumb drawing in some coffeehouse now and again. I don’t remember ever having a conversation with him, as I probably wouldn’t have wanted to bother him …
Chef du Cinema: Cul-de-sac
bonne femme, à la [bohn FEHM, bohn FAM]Literally translated as “good wife,” the term bonne femme describes food prepared in an uncomplicated, homey manner. Sole bonne femme is a simply poached fish served with a sauce of white wine and lemon jui…
Chef du Cinema: The Lady Eve
I was scared to death about The Lady Eve. I happen to love pratfalls, but as almost everything I like, other people dislike, and vice versa, my dearest friends and severest critics constantly urged me to cut the pratfalls down from five to three. …
Chef du Cinema: Paris, Texas
Last month, a new art-house theater opened here in Austin, the Violet Crown Cinema. (Our city has several pet names, and one of them is the City of the Violet Crown. Why it’s called that has been completely lost to history.) Local film director and…
Chef du Cinema: Amarcord
When Criterion producer Susan Arosteguy was at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, last month, she met local cooking teacher and cinephile Ron Deutsch in line for a screening. They got to chatting, and Ron told Susan about his we
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