More Films about Taste, Good Taste

Julie & Julia is a 2009 American film
written and directed by Nora Ephron.
The film contrasts the life of Julia Child
in the early years of her culinary career
with the life of  New Yorker Julie Powell,
who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in
Child's cookbook in 365 days.

Like Water for Chocolate is a 1992 film
in the style of magical realism based on
the popular novel by Laura Esquivel.
Tita, a young woman is forbidden to
marry because of a family tradition.
So she puts her feelings into cooking.

Ratatouille is a 2007 American animated
film by Walt Disney Pictures.It' s about
Remy, an young rat gifted with senses of
taste and smell. Inspired by his idol, the
chef Auguste Gusteau, Remy dreams of
becoming a cook himself.

Tampopo (タンポポ) is a 1985 Japanese
comedy by Juzo Itami. About an pair of
truck drivers help a widow to learn the
technique to make a perfect bowl of noodle.

The Ramen Girl is an 2008 American–
Japanese movie about a girl who goes
to Japan to learn how to cook ramen.

Films about Taste, Good Taste

A Touch of Spice is a 2003 Greek film,
about a  professor of astronomy and
astrophysics, recalls his childhood
memories in Istanbul. His grandfather
was an owner of a general store with
a specialty in spices.

Babette's Feast  is a 1987 Danish drama
film based on the story by Isak Dinesen
( Karen Blixen). Babette's Feast was the
first Danish film of a Blixen story. It was
also the first Danish film to win the Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Big Night is a 1996 American film set in a Jersy Shore
in the 1950s, tells the story of two Italian brothers who
own and operate a restaurant called "Paradise." Despite
its magnificent food, their restaurant is failing.

Cooking with Stella is a comedy
about a Canadian diplomat  and
her husband living in New Delhi,
and their cook, Stella.

Eat Drink Man Woman is a 1994 Taiwanese
film directed by Ang Lee. The title is a quote
from the Confucius, referring to the basic
human desires and accepting them as natural.

Had I the Heavens' Embroidered Cloths

84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 British-American film directed by David Jones. A very touching and warm story of two never met friends correspondence between New York and London. In one scene Antony Hopkins as Frank Doel reading this poem... Anne Bancroft play Helene Hanff, his pen pal in New York.

Belong to the museum or junk shop?

40 years old Pioneer turn table, still in perfectly working condition!

Only Led Zeppelin music well worth it…. and perhaps Miles Davis,
Billie Holiday, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Bob Dylan, Beatles, etc…

The olds become new again!
It's a new trend for the youth these days. All they have to do just look at their parent's house attic, basement or garage. I'm sure they have a good chance to find one.

April is Poetry month

Remember   — Christina Rossetti
Remember me when I am gone away,
         Gone far away into the silent land;
         When you can no more hold me by the hand,
     Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
     Remember me when no more day by day
         You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
         Only remember me; you understand
     It will be late to counsel then or pray.
     Yet if you should forget me for a while
         And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
         For if the darkness and corruption leave
         A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
     Better by far you should forget and smile
         Than that you should remember and be sad.

Autumn — Walter de la Mare
There is a wind where the rose was;
cold rain where sweet grass was;
and clouds like sheep
stream o'er the steep
grey skies where the lark was.
Nought gold where you hair was;
nought warm where your hand was;
but phantom,forlorn,
beneath the thorn,
your ghost where your face was.
Sad winds where your voice was;
tears, tears where my heart was;
and ever with me
child,ever with me,
silence where hope was.

I am Like a Rose — D.H. Lawrence
I am myself at last; now I achieve
My very self, I, with the wonder mellow,
Full of fine warmth, I issue forth in clear
And single me, perfected from my fellow.

Here I am all myself.  No rose-bush heaving
Its limpid sap to culmination has brought
Itself more sheer and naked out of the green
In stark-clear roses, than I to myself am brought.