The Trip
Haute cuisine comes in for some gentle mocking in Michael Winterbottom’s film The Trip (2011) about a foodie road trip with adversarial traveling companions, British...
Category: Food on Film
Mid-August Lunch
Having just returned from an Ohio family reunion, I particularly enjoyed this quiet but entertaining Italian film that focuses on family, flavor, and food for...
Foodie Film: Tampopo
From noodles to aphrodisiacs, from food fetishes to French food, and back again to noodles, the film Tampopo (1985) explores our common foodie humanity and our...
Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers
We headed to Gilroy in late July to wallow in garlic. Our first Gilroy Garlic Festival is the festival’s 33rd year celebrating the charms of the stinking...
The Vanishing of the Bees
The pages of my notebook stick together from the copious honey that oozed through a special dinner recently offered at Full of Life Flatbread in...
Foodie Flicks & Short Film with Tasty TED Talks
Our collection of short films about Central Coast foodies—including winemakers, cheese makers, and farmers among others—provides a good cross section of the types of individuals,...
