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Break out the silverware for the greatest grub ever caught on camera. Great cinema can be a feast for the eyes β and a great cinematic meal can be as fulfilling as a literal feast. Done right, watching food onscreen can be a sensorial experience akin to actually consuming it, especially when it becomes part of the narrative itself.
In any case, get your antacids ready and belly up for the best food-on-film moments ever. Been there, done that? Think again, my friend. Robert De Niro's belligerent backseat cooking "You overcook it, it's no good. It defeats its own purpose" and furious table flip is bone-rattling stuffβbut we briefly consider a similar reaction each time a restaurant presents us with an incinerated slab of beef.
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton's calamitous attempt to boil live lobsters perfectly captures the conflicting feelings we face each time we plunge those icky but luscious crustaceans into the scorching water: Gleeful but guilty, rapacious and a little terrified.
Too bad we don't get to see Woody in a bib. Streepβwho portrays a troubled New York editor planning a party for a friend at the end of his lifeβis most affecting when she meticulously separates eggs, concentrating intensely on the task even as she threatens to crack.
