Product Description

Movie Menus pairs classic movies with easy recipes updated from historic cookbooks to help you create a sensational dining experience for any film genre.

Both foodies and film buffs will find their passions fulfilled in this deliciously cinematic cookbook, which gathers authentic recipes from the cultures and eras portrayed in your favorite films: Old-Fashioned Southern Fried Chicken with Gravy to savor with Gone with the Wind; Spaghetti and Meatballs with Eggplant for The Godfather; Pan-Seared Steak and Onions with The Alamo; a Victory Garden Salad for Patton.

The chapters are organized into ten distinct film genres—everything from “Pharaohs and Philosophers” and “Knights and Kings” to “The Wild West” and “Romantic Dinner for Two”—with a dozen or so recipes each. Treat your family to a complete meal served in popcorn bowls while watching Shrek, or enjoy a Renaissance feast with Shakespeare in Love. Spiced with film factoids, black-and-white movie stills, famous lines, and bloopers, Movie Menus is as fun to read as it is to use, and promises to be a classic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #265894 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-03
• Released on: 2004-02-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Thanks to this captivating collection of recipes, movie trivia and culinary history, plain popcorn will have a hard time cutting it as a movie snack again. Food historian Segan (Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Recipes for the Contemporary Cook) splits her time between Italy and New York City, and the recipes she chooses for this volume are as sophisticated as one might expect. She organizes her book by film genres and eras, including "The Gilded Age," "The Wild West," "Family Movie Night" and "Gangsters to Greasers." For each theme, Segan lists two dozen or more film suggestions, from the obscure to Oscar winners; recipes for appetizers, main dishes and desserts; and film trivia and humorous quotes, such as Cary Grant’s famous "Insanity runs in my family...it practically gallops" (from Arsenic and Old Lace). Most recipes are relatively simple to prepare, and many are taken from the first cookbooks in which they ever appeared (the Peach Melba is French chef Auguste Escoffier’s late-19th-century original; Courage Tart, an Elizabethan aphrodisiac, comes from a book written in 1587). Some foodie/film buffs will be looking for a timpani recipe to duplicate the one featured in the 1996 Stanley Tucci/Isabella Rossellini film Big Night, but its unfortunate absence is probably the only quibble they’ll have with the volume.
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Review
"Food and film, a marriage made in heaven, With this book it gets its proper leaven."--John Simon, theater critic for New York Magazine?Francine Segan has given us a gift by providing us with ideas for many memorable evenings. Food, like movies, brings us together and allows us to share romance, adventure, and laughter. From the first bite to the last, Movie Menus will help every cook write his or her uniquely sumptuous script.?--Executive Chef Michael White, Fiamma Osteria, New  York?This delightful book will conjure up fond memories of great movies and the meals that accompanied them?both on and off screen.? ?Richard Peña, Program Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center -- Review

Review
"Food and film, a marriage made in heaven,
With this book it gets its proper leaven."
--John Simon, theater critic for New York Magazine

“Francine Segan has given us a gift by providing us with ideas for many memorable evenings. Food, like movies, brings us together and allows us to share romance, adventure, and laughter. From the first bite to the last, Movie Menus will help every cook write his or her uniquely sumptuous script.”
--Executive Chef Michael White, Fiamma Osteria, New  York

“This delightful book will conjure up fond memories of great movies and the meals that accompanied them–both on and off screen.”
–Richard Peña, Program Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center

Customer Reviews

They go together
Anyone who loves the movie wants to duplicate the meal! No matter how hard, or what trouble it may be to get the ingredients, a dedicated cook will find what is needed. Inviting friends who share the love makes for a most enjoyable evening.

Good, but could be better
Good book, but could have more pictures...it helps to see what the final product looks like. Some of the recipes do not impress as they should, but still had a few viable players.

Great ideas for movie nights!
This contains movie trivia, party planning and wonderful easy to follow recipes.