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| Babette's Feast (Denmark) |
[DVD] 701.43 B1135 |
| With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and bread - a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure? |
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| Big Night (Italian American) |
[DVD] 791.43 B5925 |
| This is the story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of chef Primo. |
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| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (French) |
[DVD] 791.43 D6114 |
| An all-star French cast assembles for an elegant dinner party, but whenever they try to eat, something happens to interrupt them. This film mixes biting social satire with bold surrealistic invention as the dinner party serves to lampoon such targets as diplomats, wealthy socialites and even radical terrorists. |
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| Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan) |
[DVD] 791.43 E14 |
| A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior. |
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| Fast Food Nation |
[DVD] 791.43 F2513 |
| When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow. |
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| Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico) |
[DVD] 791.43 L726 |
| This romantic fantasy is set in Mexico during the early 20th century. A young couple is blocked from marrying by the demands of the young woman's cold and selfish mother. to be near his love, the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking. |
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| Mostly Martha (Germany) |
[DVD] 791.43 M9157 |
| Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. when her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario, Martha's hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but knows sundry magic tricks and jokes to keep Lina's spirits afloat. Just as Martha starts to grow attached to the girl, Lina's erratic father shows up demanding that he take her back to Italy with him. |
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| My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Greek American) |
[DVD] 791.43 M9953 |
| Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever. |
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| Soylent Green (American) |
[DVD] 791.43 S7315 |
| Charleton Heston plays a cop in the 21st century science fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous truth about the secret ingredient of "Soylent Green." |
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| Tampopo (Japan) |
[DVD] 791.43 T1593 |
| Tampopo follows a young widow who runs a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo and Goro, a cowboy hat wearing truck driver, as they attempt to devise the perfect bowl of top ramen. |
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| Tortilla Soup (Mexico) |
[DVD] 791.43 T7115 |
| This is a heartwarming comedy that's all about food, family and a certain kind of magic that only happens at the dinner table. Martin is the culinary genius behind a successful restaurant and the widowed father of three daughters whom he has a compulsion to try and steer in the right direction. Hungry for their independence, the girls find themselves at odds with their traditionalist father. |
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| Eat, Drink and be Merry |
[VHS] 609.08 |
| Host James Burke traces the connection between military arms used during the time of Charles the Bold, canning, refrigeration, and modern space rockets. |
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| Food a Multi-cultural Feast |
[VHS] 394.01 |
| The food we eat in the United States is multi-cultural in its origin. Where some of this food comes from is illustrated. |
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| Ray Kroc Fast Food McMillionaire |
[DVD] 920.02 R2635 |
| He was a paper cup salesman who knew how to answer when opportunity knocked. His vision created the fast food industry as we know it today. Ray Kroc is the man behind McDonald's and its 25,000 restaurants worldwide. The sharp dressing salesman had already thought he'd found his niche when he switched from selling paper cups to peddling a mixing machine that could whip up five milkshakes at once. But on a visit to his biggest customer, he found his true calling. Kroc was so impressed with the hamburger stand operated by the McDonald brothers that he offered to franchise the operation for them. Within six years, he had opened more than 300 McDonald's, bought the brothers out and created the fast food industry we know. |
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| Supersize Me |
[DVD] 791.43 S9592 |
| Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of Americans are now overweight. Spurlock's grueling diet spirals him into a metamorphosis that will make you think twice about picking up another Big Mac. |
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| Why We Eat what We Eat: Understanding Food Choices |
[DVD] 394.1 W6297 |
| Viewers will see that there are many reasons why people have different tastes in foods. They will begin to understand how heritage, popular culture, regions of the country and world, social events, and advertising all influence our choices in food. |
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