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I'd have to go with Amelie, as it's one of my favorite movies, and has so much great, simple food in it. A great creme brulee, a bean dish (the beans she sinks her arm down into), whatever vegetable it was the shop assistant held up to his ear to listen to (was it a leek? I don't remember). And of course a great big yummy looking dish of pasta, with a very simple cheese topping. Perhaps homemade flavored pasta to spice it up a bit for the competition.

Perhaps that's all too literal. But that movie always makes me incredibly hungry. Good, simple, pure foodstuffs.

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there was a wonderful thing that used to happen here in Philly. A local cook event that had many locations. One was a restaurant near a theater. First they would show a movie.. then they would make the food for it. Babette's Feast was one. Big Night was another. I went to Big Night event and actually have made a timboli later simply b'c it was so delish.. but it takes ALL DAY.

What movie would I do? hmm. not sure. I'll have to think about it.. but a whole meal around a movie is wonderful fun.

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I have no single favourite movie. But at one point I might have said Brazil, which means I'd be serving lumps of differently-coloured mush with little pictures of what it's supposed to taste like. So that's a bad option. I don't know enough about Moroccan food to pick out the right foods for Casablanca, but the options are, of course, endless.

But for Spirited Away... gods. So. Many. Options. So many. I could cook for weeks off that movie, just cooking the foods you see. I don't even know where to start! Well, rice, of course, you always have rice. It's the law! But a sukiyaki-based tofu dish, cooked twice (first time with beef, which is removed but builds flavour; the second time with tofu), with just-slightly-fried yam noodles and chrysanthemum leaves; a Szechwan-derived chicken dish, lightly breaded, with a ginger and garlic sauce with just a hint of ponsu; mochi green tea, vanilla, and melon ice cream cut into slabs, reassembled, rewrapped, hard-frozen, briefly deep-fried, then cut into slices like cake and decorated with miniature konpeito... I could just keep going indefinitely. Which I guess is the answer. ^_^

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Favorite movie is Harold & Maude. I guess maybe something with an early 70s earthy flavor to it. Fondue?

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ooooooh I love the Monty Python... though you could have also gone with roast rabbit with a rosemary (shrubbery!) and elderberry reduction.

Hmmm favorite movie is Fifth Element, and I'm not sure where I would go with that. Maybe a Hawaiian/Polynesian theme like Phloston Paradise, and Chicken.

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I think your cavy dish sounds *delicious* (apparently, it tastes a lot like tender pork, so a fruity sauce would go well) and I am really amused that you called it 'cavy' in this context. *wink*

I don't have a single favorite movie, but Tampopo really deserves a mention here. *ponders the possibilities of Japanese noodles*

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For about the first ten years after it came out, my reflexive answer to the favorite movie question was "A Fish Called Wanda". With that, I'd have to do some sort of sushi inspired by a particular scene with Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. Over the last ten years, my favorite movie has become "Goodfellas". I suppose the Italian food options there are almost too obvious.

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and I'd make, oh, never mind.

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My favourite movie is The Princess Bride. It would require a Miracle Pill truffle, of course. Sitting in a lacy, princess-like robin's nest of spun sugar (both a call to the Princess and to Robin Wright Penn), paired with a good sicilian wine (iocaine free).

I didn't even think until after I had thought, 'heavens, what IS my favourite movie?' when my first thought was When Harry Met Sally (a cake like Aunt Emily? A highly deconstructed dish - Sally would be SO happy with the early 00s trend of putting EVERYTHING on the damn side. A deli platter with the offer that, "It's not Katz' Deli, but I hope you'll have what she had?").

My next inclination for a favourite movie was Spinal Tap, but so much of what they did in there was eat at receptions. Unless I could successfully come up with a way to fold the bread to make Nigel happy? Alternately, if I could dye an entire course black....instead of the usual pleasing contrasts, instead present them with something where everything tastes vibrant and varied, but all BLACK. "Your dinner...howm much blacker could it be? The answer is None. None more black."

It was only then, when going over those options in my mind that I realized how into Rob Reiner I appear to be :-) They're all such radically different movies, though; a fantasy adventure quest, a romance, a mock rockumentary. and i love them so.

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I must admit, I've never seen Top Chef since we don't have cable.

But it would be the movie "Gone With the Wind" it could be anything from a BBQ to a "stone soup" kind of thing. Heck, maybe it would just be a "Frankly my dear, I don't give a Damn" drink. :)

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My favorite movies are either Sneakers or The Royal Tenenbaums.

But I don't cook. What would your readers who cook do with this, I wonder?

I do bake... maybe a cake covered in cryptography or in the shape of a dalmatian mouse.

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Most of my favorite movies are vampire movies. This does not look good.

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Sure it does!

Vampires are about sensuality and death and sexual power vs powerlessness (at least since the early 1800s). What wonderful foods you can explore with that.

Rich chocolates paired with blood red fruit sauces. Steak tartar and carpaccio. White asparagus in a white truffle sauce, splattered with pomagranite reduction. A dark red sorbet, melted so it is warm and thich and served as a drink from copper cups to lend just that hint... Afrodisiacal foods. And that's without any particular movie in mind for hints and inspiration!

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I don't ever have a single favorite movie, but I would choose Stardust and make zambaglione lighly flavored with cloudberry liquer instead of wine.

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