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Black and White Cookies – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

02:56 AM, February 23, 2012 |

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Black and White Cookies – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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When life is very hard, sometimes cake is the best answer. This New York deli treat might have come in handy for nine year old Oskar Schell; (explorer, jeweler, inventor, tambourine player and vegan pacifist). He’s mourning his Dad who passed when the towers fell. To keep his memory alive he’s on a quest across five boroughs to discover the truth about a key that belonged to someone named Black.

Unlike these cookies, Oskar’s about to discover that life isn’t always black and white. But if you’re craving some dichotomy in your day you could always make like ‘The Renter’ and tattoo ‘yes’ and ‘no’ on your palms. …

Chocolate pie- The Help

11:25 PM, February 21, 2012 |

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The second dessert in Oscars feast

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Minny Jackson thinks fried chicken just tends to make you feel better about life. So does this chocolate pie. The social structures of 1960’s Jackson Mississippi may be difficult for modern audiences to swallow, but this pie isn’t. It’s a dessert that also plays an important role in the plot of this film. Though rest easy, this version has nothing to do with Minny’s ‘terrible awful’. It’s just sweet, stickily rich and comforting as all get out. If you’re a dab hand in the kitchen you can make the crust yourself, or else feel free to buy one from the store. All that’s …

Carrot, oat and apple cake – War Horse

05:33 AM, February 21, 2012 |

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The first of two desserts in Oscars feast

The film:

The reason:

To be sure, there wasn’t a lot of cake in the trenches of World War 1. And there certainly weren’t many treats for the horses. This cake celebrates the highs and the lows of Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. In it you’ll find the apple which Albert (human) first uses to befriend Joey (horse). There’s carrot, which may proved a better motivating tool to get beasts to lug artillery through mud than a big stick. There are oats for fortitude and rosemary for remembrance (though its visual resemblance to the tangles of barbed wire that dogged No Man’s Land is hardly coincidental). …