Reel Food or Man Catchin Meals

Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film

Author: Anne L Bower

Reel Food is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film, featuring original essays by major food studies scholars, among them Carole Counihan and Michael Ashkenazi. This collection reads various films through their uses of food-from major "food films" like Babette's Feast and Big Night to less obvious choices including The Godfather trilogy and The Matrix. The contributors draw attention to the various ways in which food is employed to make meaning in film. In some cases, such as Soul Food and Tortilla Soup, for example, food is used to represent racial and ethnic identities. In other cases, such as Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, food plays a role in gender and sexual politics. And, of course, there is also discussion of the centrality of popcorn to the movie-going experience.
This book is a feast for scholars, "foodies," and cinema buffs. Itwill be of major interest to anyone working in popular culture, film studies, and food studies, at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Table of Contents:

1	Watching food : the production of food, film, and values	1
2	Feel good reel food : a taste of the cultural kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's What's cooking?	17
3	Food, play, business, and the image of Japan in Itami Juzo's Tampopo	27
4	Il Timpano - "to eat good food is to be close to God" : the Italian-American reconciliation of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's Big night	41
5	Cooking Mexicanness : shaping national identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate	61
6	Chickens, cakes, and kitchens : food and modernity in Malay films of the 1950s and 1960s	75
7	"I'll have whatever she's having" : Jews, food, and film	87
8	Food as representative of ethnicity and culture in George Tillman, Jr.'s Soul food, Maria Ripoll's Tortilla soup, and Tim Reid's Once upon a time when we were colored	101
9	Gendering the feast : women, spirituality, and grace in three food films	117
10	Food, sex, and power at the dining room table in Zhang Yimou's Raise the red lantern	129
11	Anorexia envisioned : Mike Leigh's Life is sweet, Chul-Soo Park's 301/302, and Todd Haynes's Superstar	147
12	Production, reproduction, food, and women in Herbert Biberman's Salt of the earth and Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano's After the earthquake	167
13	Images of consumption in Jutta Bruckner's Years of hunger	181
14	Appetite for destruction : gangster food and genre convention in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction	195
15	"Leave the gun; take the cannoli" : food and family in the Modern American mafia film	209
16	All-consuming passions : Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover	219
17	Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen : an ambiguous memory, an ambivalent meal	235
18	Futuristic foodways : the metaphorical meaning of food in science fiction film	251
19	Supper, slapstick, and social class : dinner as machine in the silent films of Buster Keaton	267
20	Banquet and the beast : the civilizing role of food in 1930s horror films	281
21	Engorged with desire : the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the gendered politics of eating	297
22	What about the popcorn? : food and the film-watching experience	311

Interesting textbook: Look Gorgeous Always or Gua Sha

Man Catchin' Meals

Author: Lucy

A cookbook every girl (or guy) should have when trying to land that "special" man.

We were three single young women, working and living in San Francisco. We were all busy with our careers, traveling, and of course, dating. We all tried to have dinner together at least once a month to share the trials and tribulations of our love lives. One night, the meal was so delicious that some one at the table yelled out, "Damn! This is a man catchin' meal!!"

So began our search for meals that were so delicious that if you cooked one for a guy, he would want to be yours forever. There are all sorts of resources available today to help you meet a man: singles clubs, "rule" books, personal ads...but none tells you how to land your man. And that, my friends, is what this book is all about.