The film: The dish: The reason: Before he was the President who emancipated slaves, Abraham Lincoln was a small child born into a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. What follows is a drink that’s more appropriate for the man than the boy. It’s one that accords with Euclid’s first common notion; ‘things which […]
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The film: The dish: The reason: Despite their advancing years George and Anne Laurent still have a fantasy Parisian apartment, a shared flirtatious twinkle and a love of Schubert. Their final movement begins over an egg at breakfast. A shell is broken and soon so is the smooth veneer of their marriage, as Anne slips […]
The movie: The dish: The reason: ‘They think we’re all gonna drown down here. But we ain’t going nowhere.’ There are plenty of forces of nature at work in The Bathtub; but none as scene stealing as Hushpuppy herself. It’s not the easiest thing being six, having an absent unwell father (no matter how whimsical […]
The movie: The dish: The reason: There is no shortage of crimson spray in Tarantino’s epic western tale of slavery and retribution. Civility is something that emerges in sly places; through the silver tongue of Dr King Schultz (Christopher Waltz), the kingfisher silk finery favoured by the newly freed Django (Jamie Foxx) and the table […]
The film: The dish: The reason: Tehran in November 1979 wasn’t a terrific place for six American diplomats to be hiding out in the Canadian embassy. Thank goodness for CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) and ‘the best bad idea we have’. A phony science fiction film scouting mission and a cluster of fake Canadian […]