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SO MUCH TO TASTE. SO LITTLE TIME.Archive for December, 2008
Reel Food
Molto Sirio
It’s a rare film about haute cuisine that manages to come down to Earth and stir deep emotions, too; Big Night is an easy exception, but there are many more misses than hits in the ouevre. And great documentaries about food are rarer still. So I was pleased to see the excellent documentary LE CIRQUE: A TABLE IN HEAVEN on the schedule for HBO on Monday, December 29th. Completed in 2006, the film, which debuted at IFC’s Stranger Than Fiction series in April of 2007, documents the rise-and-fall-and-rise-again of restaurateur Sirio Maccioni and his famed eatery, Le Cirque, once the most celebrated restaurant in New York. Catering to celebrities, Presidents, and, famously—thanks to Sirio’s legendary hospitality—seemingly anyone who walked in the door, Le Cirque became a symbol of the good life, dreams achieved, abbondanza.
Bacon and Whiskey: An Ode.
Who doesn’t love them? Here’s a gem by my old friend Kristy Athens, which, among other things, explains the range of bacon ordering doneness, from limp to “cook the sh*t out of it.” We used to be in a writing group together, which mainly consisted of eating and drinking for hours and hours with a few similarly-inclined pals, which is why I love this clip. Move over Scorsese, now there’s something meatier.
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