Television is inundated with shows about food, aside from The Food Channel, Food Network, The Cooking Channel, the regular channels are also full of culinary themed shows such as Bravo’s Top Chef, Fox’ Hell’s Kitchen, ABC’s The Chew and PBS’ American Test Kitchen just to name a few. However we are not seeing this same trend in film. Aside from the film Chef by Jon Favreau there have been a handful of notable films dealing with the subject of food and cooking over the last 20 years such as Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet, Babette’s Feast, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Like Water For Chocolate and he more recent Julie and Julia about Julia Childs. You will also notice that most of these films are foreign. So why is this? Do people not like to watch films about food outside of the privacy of their own home? I remember Paramount Pictures had a great script about a chef many years ago and Keanu Reeves was attached to star at the time, clearly it never got made. I would love to hear some opinions, please let me know your thoughts on this subject …..
to be continued….
Sofia Sondervan 
It is interesting that you wrote about this. I always wondered the reason that foreign films embrace more about food! Bruno Barreto directed “Gabriela” in 1981 starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sonia Braga. Food and sensuality were mixed. But not on a tacky/vulgar way. I will be a regular in your blogs! Thanks for sharing your ideas.