The Film: The Dish: The Reason: If you’re going to embark on a 54 mile protest march from Selma to Montgomery, you’re going to need a decent breakfast. If you’re going to agitate for a Voting Rights Act in the face of racist terror, you’re going to want some comfort food. And if you’re going […]
Oscars festival
The Film: The Dish: The Reason: If you can easily trace Stephen Hawking’s (Eddie Redmayne) theories of time and relativity, feel free to skip ahead to the recipe at the bottom. If like the rest of us you benefit from the relationship between space and quantum mechanics being explained by his doting wife Jane (Felicity […]
It’s that time of year again. OscarsFeast has started! Please excuse the break in regular slow carb programming for some escapist delights. First cab off the rank of the eight films nominated for Best Picture in 2015; The Film: The Dish: The Reason: Mathematician Alan Turing(Benedict Cumberbatch) is a curious fellow. For one, he doesn’t […]
So- this is it; a complete feast inspired by each of the nine best picture nominees for the 2014 Academy Awards. Maybe you haven’t seen them all. Maybe you’re still slightly traumatised from 12 Years a Slave. Maybe you haven’t looked at your iphone quite the same way after Her. Maybe you’ve felt an inescapable […]
The Film: The Dish: The Reason: A buckle is a sweet taste of the south, which is what you’ll need after joining Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejioforn) in his twelve years in hell. Here you’ll find blackberries, with their tricklings of juice contributing both a twinkling acidity- and potentially a source of ink to send […]