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The hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg is the culinary battleground for this fifth season of the Bravo hit, as another crop of 16 contestants undergo numerous cooking challenges in a bid to become the titular Top Chef. Hosted by Padma Lakshmi and supervised by head judge Chef Tom Colicchio, the addictive series shows the nitty-gritty [...]

The hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg is the culinary battleground for this fifth season of the Bravo hit, as another crop of 16 contestants undergo numerous cooking challenges in a bid to become the titular Top Chef. Hosted by Padma Lakshmi and supervised by head judge Chef Tom Colicchio, the addictive series shows the nitty-gritty [...]

Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazilian music and filled with color, food and passion, Penelope Cruz stars in this sexy comedy as Isabella, a chef whose motion sickness drives a wedge between her and her husband, Toninho (Murilo Benicio). After Toninho is unfaithful, Isabella relocates from Brazil to San Francisco, where she starts a [...]

With a staggering number of Americans suffering from obesity and other food-related maladies, this film takes a timely and hard-hitting look at how the food we eat is helping or hurting our health, and what we can do to live (and eat) better. Nutritionists, naturopaths, scientists, doctors, medical journalists and more weigh in on everything [...]

After his dream girl, fetching columnist Ninia (Kristine Hermosa), rejects rotund pastry chef Macky (Sam Milby), he hires personal trainer Aira (Toni Gonzaga) to help him shape up — and they soon fall for each other in this witty Filipino tale. To support her family, Aira takes a job abroad, and when she runs into [...]

In director María Ripoll’s bilingual drama, widower Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo) is a Los Angeles restaurateur with a booming business and three headstrong daughters (Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello and Elizabeth Peña), who are all on the verge of leaving the house to pursue their individual destinies. He knows he must let go, but things get [...]

France’s position as the world’s top wine producer went unchallenged until 1976, when the Montelena Winery put California wines on the map — a story delightfully told in this full-bodied tale about the heady early days of Napa Valley’s success. Bill Pullman, Chris Pine and Freddy Rodriguez star as the dreamers — and drinkers — [...]

German director Sandra Nettelbeck whips up this tragicomic tale about an uptight professional chef named Martha (Martina Gedeck), who finds her world turned upside down when she takes in her newly orphaned niece, Lina, and tries her hand at parenting. Martha’s obsession with precision gourmet cooking extends to discussing recipes with her bewildered therapist (August [...]

Distracted by their complicated love lives and secret ambitions, three adult sisters reluctantly humor their widower father (Sihung Lung) by enduring the elaborate, traditional Taiwanese dinners he insists on having every Sunday. Ang Lee directs this charming tale that humorously examines the clash between modernity and tradition within the contemporary Taiwanese family. Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien [...]

Philippa (Hanne Stensgaard) and Martina (Vibeke Hastrup ) turn down a chance to leave their Danish town, instead staying to care for their pastor father and his small church. Thirty-five years later, a French woman (Stéphane Audran) seeks refuge, and Philippa and Martina (now Bodil Kjer and Birgitte Federspie) take her in. The feast the [...]

In this movie loosely based on Frances Mayes’s best-selling memoir of the same title, Diane Lane stars as Frances, a newly divorced American writer who heads for the Italian region of Tuscany to make limonita out of life’s lemons. Having just quit her high-pressure job and ended her heartbreaking marriage, she buys a decrepit-but-charming house [...]

Blown in by the north wind, an iconoclastic single mother (Oscar nominee Juliette Binoche) and her young daughter move into a peaceful French village and open an uncommon chocolate shop during the height of lent – directly across the street from a church. At first, the shop’s rich, sensuous desserts scandalize the town. But the [...]

Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita’s mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter instead, [...]

Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett‘s 2004 novel, Sideways follows two forty-something men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to the wine country of Santa Barbara. Payne and Taylor won multiple [...]

  (Chicago) – Food can be addictive; some people find comfort in eating in great quantity and others get obsessed in perfecting their craft in making food. Too much of anything can cause serious problems. However, food can be your salvation as well.