Chip Brantley, author of the book The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot and co-founder of cookthink.com, explains what the difficult French filmmaker showed him...

We’ve encouraged our daughter to eat anything that pleases her. We never thought about how to set limits.

Cherries Jubilee was the most beautiful thing I’d ever made, and I was going to make my last one count.

Or, Fire is Totally So Hot: A lament for the lost art of the tableside flambé.

From hot dogs to Thai food to tacos of all (well, at least two) nations, you don’t need to step indoors to have lunch or dinner covered.