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Hungry for a movie? Serve yourself five courses of films that whet your appetite

By Dale Rice
American-Statesman Staff
June 1, 2005

Here are my favorite movies in which food plays a starring role:


'Chocolat'

1. 'Babette's Feast' (1987, Danish): A refugee from Paris turns a small, dour village in Denmark upside-down with her skills as a cook. Won the Oscar for best foreign film.

2. 'Big Night' (1996, American): Two immigrant brothers try to save their Italian restaurant in New Jersey with an inspired meal that they thought they would be serving to singer Louis Prima.

3. 'Chocolat' (2000, American): A rigid, conservative village in France finds excitement after a young chocolatier opens a shop and tempts more than the residents' taste buds.

4 'Like Water for Chocolate' (1992, Mexican): Sumptuous cooking helps shape the destiny of a young Mexican woman in the early part of the 20th century.

5. 'Eat, Drink, Man, Woman' (1994, Taiwan): A master chef is devoted to his daughters, yet manages to show it only through the elaborate Sunday dinners that he cooks in place of open, honest communication.

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