This is, by the way, the first scene from Juzo Itami’s hit 1985 comedy “Tampopo.” A classic work of what I call culinography (i.e., food porn). We may be seeing bits of other examples, plus more from this one, later in the week.
Speaking of gratuitous depictions of the acts of cooking and eating, it is part of my duties as a regular PH blogger to ensure that our own TV cooking maven Mike Farley see this “Julie and Julia” inspired post on “10 TV Chefs Who Need Their Own Movie.” An okay list, I guess, but how did he miss Graham Kerr? And what of the various Iron Chefs? Personally, I find just about any episode of the original Japanese “Iron Chef” series 100 times more exciting than most summer movies. I also wonder if Christopher Campbell knows that Alton Brown of “Good Eats” was a film school geek long before he went to cooking school.
