Movie Menus: Recipes for Perfect Meals with Your Favorite Films

By Francine Segan

Book Overview

Movie Menus pairs classic movies with easy recipes updated from historic cookbooks to help you create a sensational dining experience for any film genre. Both foodies and film buffs will find their passions fulfilled in this deliciously cinematic cookbook, which gathers authentic recipes from the cultures and eras portrayed in your favorite films- Old-Fashioned Southern Fried Chicken with Gravy to savor with Gone with the Wind ; Spaghetti and Meatballs with Eggplant for The Godfather; Pan-Seared Steak and Onions with The Alamo ; a Victory Garden Salad for Patton . The chapters are organized into ten distinct film genres-everything from "Pharaohs and Philosophers" and "Knights and Kings" to "The Wild West" and "Romantic Dinner for Two"-with a dozen or so recipes each. Treat your family to a complete meal served in popcorn bowls while watching Shrek , or enjoy a Renaissance feast with Shakespeare in Love . Spiced with film factoids, black-and-white movie stills, famous lines, and bloopers, Movie Menus is as fun to read as it is to use, and promises to be a classic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812969928
• ISBN13: 9780812969924
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

They go together

Anyone who loves the movie wants to duplicate the meal! No matter how hard, or what trouble it may be to get the ingredients, a dedicated cook will find what is needed. Inviting friends who share the love makes for a most enjoyable evening.

Great ideas for movie nights!

This contains movie trivia, party planning and wonderful easy to follow recipes.

Love movies, love food, look no further

A perfect companion to Oscar night, witty and insightful, an essential for anyone who loves to eat and go to the movies (and doesn't everyone???)