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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2012 16:52:52 GMT
In real life, one of my colleagues went to Belleville one day to buy some live Caribbean crabs since his wife (from Martinique) was going to make stuffed crabs for us at the office the next day.
Well, they were very lively with strong aggressive claws and they managed to rip the plastic bag in the metro. Apparently people were screaming as the nasty creatures scuttled around the subway car, and he said he was lucky that nobody pulled the emergency alarm before he could recapture them.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 25, 2012 14:02:43 GMT
Speaking of lobster dinners, the scene in Tom Jones referred to right at the beginning is at:
and as for Henry VIII, the iconic if possibly inaccurate scene everyone knows of is of Charles Laughton in the 1930s Private Lives of Henry VIII:
But if I may really bring the tone down:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2012 16:08:54 GMT
Oh!!! Fabulous Patrick!!!! ( The lobster is also featured prominently in many classic paintings). One could do a whole thread dedicated to the lobster.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 26, 2012 5:14:25 GMT
Just thought of one that people outside the UK won't (I imagine) know, from the formulaic Carry On series, in this case Carry On Up the Khyber, a skit on all those old "The natives are restless, Carruthers" movies set in imperial times:
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 26, 2012 5:17:01 GMT
Or, if you prefer
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2013 12:59:57 GMT
We watched a most delightful movie, Haute Cuisine (Les Saveurs du Palais) based on the real life story of Hortense Laborie who served as personal chef to President Mitterand. Highly recommended.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2013 16:58:52 GMT
Yes, I very much liked that film when it came out in France and I thought it was a shame that it was not a bigger success.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 13:05:30 GMT
This has some very memorable meal scenes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2016 5:55:24 GMT
Looks like a good movie, too. Was it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 5:58:06 GMT
Yes, it won the French Academy Award for best picture.
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Post by htmb on Apr 30, 2016 18:42:28 GMT
Watching this on television.
I think I saw you, Kerouac!
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Post by lagatta on May 8, 2016 1:15:35 GMT
I loved Les Saveurs du palais. Would like to see it again.
Of course Mitterand's version of down-home cooking was rather different from that of George W Bush (odd too, given the family background of the latter). I don't know if anyone has yet filmed the famous scene when Cécilia decamped to eat lobster rather than burgers in New England.
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Post by lagatta on May 8, 2016 3:04:24 GMT
I watched Toast online, of course a lot of dinners, from too little to too much food, but what hit home was the school milk programme. I see that Nigel Slater was also a boomer, and there was a postwar cult of milk as a sign of prosperity and health. A teacher also forced me to drink a little bottle of cow milk and I turned a violent red colour and was taken to the nurse. Nobody believed in allergies back then and they thought I was just being "difficult". Now intolerance is trendy, which may make matters easier for true allergics but is rather galling.
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