Cooking with Scorsese II

Cookbooks come in all shapes and sizes, but none have embraced a movie theme quite like this series. Across three volumes, Cooking with Scorsese and Others offers an homage to food in film by showing memorable scenes in sequences of screenshots. From films where food is the central theme, such as Julie & Julia (2009), Tortilla Soup, Babette's Feast (1987), and Tampopo (1985), to ones in which it plays a supporting role, like The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), and Goodfellas (1990), dozens of classic, cult, and perhaps under-appreciated or forgotten films can be experienced again in this gastronomic celebration of cinema.

Iron-cooked ham and cheese sandwiches, cailles en sarcophagi, explosive pissing beef balls; low, high, accessible, obscure, comical – food, like art, is served up in various guises, but whatever form it takes, it shares the common traits of being a stimulant as well as a necessity for living. Food and art also share a common space at the heart of Hato’s practice. Each day they serve up a communal afternoon meal, creating an opportunity to down tools and enjoy the moment. This book welcomes you to join in this homage to food and the films that celebrate eating in all sorts of compelling ways.