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My Day on a Plate: Debi Mazar
From Goodfellas to good food. The actress, mother, and current Dancing with the Stars hoofer has a new website, Under the Tuscan Gun, where she dishes out her favorite traditional Italian recipes, ingredients, and anecdotes....
09.29.09
- Keywords
- my day on a plate,
- culinary culture,
- italy,
- los angeles,
- film
food + cooking
Jeanne Dielman and the Mise en Scène of Meatloaf
To enter the Criterion Collection’s new movie contest, your acting has to be as good as your cooking.
09.16.09
- Keywords
- film,
- culinary culture,
- margy rochlin
food + cooking
My Day on a Plate: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron—novelist, screenwriter, director, serious eater—with her latest film, Julie & Julia, dishes about everything she ate over the course of 24 hours....
08.03.09
- Keywords
- my day on a plate,
- culinary culture,
- nora ephron,
- film,
- mark rozzo
food + cooking
The Trouble with Julie & Julia
Five years after Julia Child’s death, she’s winning America’s heart again through this movie. Julie Powell is another story.
07.30.09
- Keywords
- film,
- cookbooks,
- julia child,
- julie powell,
- laura shapiro
food + cooking
Sonoma’s Food, Wine, and Film Mashup
This year’s Sonoma International Film Festival features some surprisingly good pairings (Chardonnay and kettle corn) and very some odd choices (a lifetime achievement award for Bruce Willis?)....
04.03.09
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- wine,
- spirits,
- film,
- pervaiz shallwani
food politics
Oscars® Honor a Community Garden
The Academy Awards nominate a documentary film that looks at the tragedy of a once-verdant plot in South Central L.A.
02.13.09
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- health + science,
- film,
- los angeles,
- nutrition/diet
food + cooking
Cooking Stars
Before the age of celebrity chefs, there were chef-celebrities. What creations did Humphrey Bogart and Charlton Heston dream up?
12.26.08
- Keywords
- robert sietsema,
- culinary culture,
- cookbooks,
- film
travel + culture
Australia’s Tim Tam Slam
Hugh Jackman and Oprah start a craze for “bikkie.”
12.15.08
- Keywords
- pat nourse,
- cookies,
- culinary culture,
- hugh jackman,
- oprah winfrey
magazine
Steaking a Claim to the Best BBQ
A cameo in the movie Sideways may have made the Hitching Post II a household name, but the real star here is the sirloin.
October 2008
- Keywords
- colman andrews,
- beef,
- restaurants,
- frank ostini,
- gray hartley
wine + spirits + beer
The Hartley-Ostini Winery
A restaurateur and his partner prove that you don’t need formal training to make critically acclaimed wine.
09.12.08
- Keywords
- colman andrews,
- wine,
- film,
- frank ostini,
- gray hartley



















