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Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Single mom Juana can slice and dice anything with great speed and precision. After working at a fruit-vending cart for years, she decides to take a job at a local Japanese restaurant. Intrigued by the food, she learns to make a multitude of sushi on her own. Eventually she attempts to become a sushi chef, but is unable to because she is the 'wrong' race and gender. Against all odds, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, determined to not let...
2) Chef
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
3) Burnt
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chef Adam Jones had it all, and lost it. A rockstar chef of a two-star Michelin restaurant with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste. To land his own kitchen and that third elusive Michelin star though, he'll need the best of the best on his side, including the beautiful Helene.
"...it captures...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A matter of taste takes an intimate look inside the world of an immensely talented and driven young chef, Paul Liebrandt. At 24, he was awarded three stars by The New York Times for unforgettable and hyper-modern dishes such as "eel, violets and chocolate," "espuma of calf brains and foie gras," and "beer and truffle soup." Times critic William Grimes likened Paul to "a pianist who seems to have found a couple of dozen extra keys." Conversely, Gourmet...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat...
7) The menu
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young couple travels to a faraway secluded island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared an extravagant menu, with some shocking surprises.
8) Mr. Church
Publisher
Codeblack Films / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her dying mother obtain the services of a talented cook. What begins as a six-month arrangement spans fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. Director Morgan Neville offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.
10) Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the celebrity chef, cookbook author, and television personality.
11) Frank & Lola
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he is instantly and violently in love. As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge.
12) The menu
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When several people travel to an exclusive island restaurant, they discover that the chef has prepared a lavish menu and is also hiding several dark secrets.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Life's never ordinary in Shopville, but things are about to get a little extraordinary with the arrival of the Chef Club, hosted by new-Shoppie-on-the-block Peppa Mint and her Shopkin pals. To be accepted, the Shoppies will have to sing, dance, boil and blanch their way to victory. But it's not just the pots that simmer! When Bubbleisha feels she's not getting the attention she's owed, things turn from sweet to sour faster than a milkshake in the...
14) Ramen shop
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
日本語
Description
The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the way to his grandmother's heart.
15) Life is sweet
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bringing viewers into Magnus Nilsson's kitchen at Fṽiken for an all-access look at what it takes to run what some people say is the most creative and surprising restaurant on the planet. Get inside the mind of innovative Chef Nilsson as he travels throughout Scandinavia, Paris, and the Faroe Islands demonstrating traditional Nordic culinary techniques and how to make the most of ingredients at their freshest.
17) Three stars
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on ten world-class chefs, Three stars depicts the everyday drama of life in gourmet restaurants and includes exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access to these multi-talented culinary artisans as they explore new creations in their gastronomic laboratories, hunt for exquisite ingredients in local markets, and gather rare edible plants along rough coastlines. By highlighting not only their culinary philosophies but also their daily...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
This character-driven documentary and cooking series explores both traditional and modern applications of Southern ingredients through the life and work of the series' host and narrator, Vivian Howard.
"There are a lot of cooking shows, some instructional, some merely exist as platforms to display contrived drama. This show is real..."--Michael Kelly
"... authenticity, highlighting living and cooking in eastern North Carolina."--Martin Hines
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