The Film: The Dish: The Reason: Only in Texas would you find a character like Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey) – and a dish like chicken fried steak. A man’s man, who likes red wine, a rib eye, bull riding and the love of the ladies, Ron is lost when he discovers he has HIV – […]
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The Film: The Dish: The Reason: Not everything is going Woody Grant (Bruce Dern’s) way. He just wants to get from Montana to Lincoln Nebraska, to claim the million dollars he’s convinced he’s won in a sweepstakes. If he could have the respect of his family and old friends, procure a new truck, a compressor […]
The Dish: The Reason: “There’s got to be something other than being a fisherman or kidnapping people’” so says Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) after the MV Maersk Alabama becomes the first US cargo ship to be taken by pirates in over 200 years. Crazy water is an Italian technique of poaching fish in seasoned […]
The Film: The Dish: The Reason: There’s more to link a hustle with a brussel (sprout) than the tweeness of a rhyme. This gratin is as 70’s as the perm of Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) and the velvet suits of Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale). Like them this dish understands the importance of gaining […]
The Film: The Dish: The Reason: Don’t let go- either of your partner, when you’re drifting untethered in the boundless expanses of space – or this dessert. One has deadly consequences, the other will be just disappointing. These orbs of poached meringue (ile flottante in French- or floating islands) seemingly defy gravity, suspended upon a […]