I'm going to add a listing of culinary related movies. With the exception of the mediocre film The Ramen Girl and Tampopo the one film on this list I have never seen, I very much enjoy watching these films.
Eat Pray Love (2010), I very much enjoyed this movie. I have spent time in both Italy and India (but not Bali).
Pressure Cooker (2008) - Wilma Stephenson has been teaching Philadelphia's Frankford High School Culinary Program for over 40 years. Culinary Arts Program C-CAP
Cheeni Kum (2007), (literally, less sugar) is a Hindi film made by advertising executive and debutant director Balkrishnan. It is an unconventional love story between a 34 year old woman and an older man of 64.
How to Cook Your Life (2007) - The life and work of Northern California Zen priest, Tassajara bread baker and cookbook author, Edward Espe Brown. Brown started at Tassajara as a dishwasher in 1966 and later helped to start Greens Restaurant.
Chocolat (2000)
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Towanda!! And here is the recipe!
Babette's Feast (1987), written by Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) the Danish author who wrote Out of Africa. The story centers around the flight of the recently widowed and former renowned chef/owner of the famous Parisian Cafe Anglais who is fleeing the civil war raging in France. She takes refuge in the home of two pious sisters living in the small and isolated Norwegian village of Jutland. Years later, when she comes into a large amount of money, rather than spend the money on herself, Babet uses the money to provide her benefactors, and their small parish, with a sumptuous dinner. So moved are the dinner guests by the fantastic meal that one quotes the sisters' late minister father, ‘Mercy and truth, my friends, have met together, Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another’.
Tampopo (Japan, 1987) - Ok, ok, of all the movies listed, this is the only one I have not yet seen.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
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