Real Food & World Cinema

    Did Vianne and daughter change with their physical and metaphysical meaning of transformation in the village during lent leading up to Easter?  Chocolat is a romance and drama film about a woman and her daughter who come to a small French Village that opens a chocolate shop. The protagonist is Vianne who is the owner of the shop and a mother. The shop always opens on Sundays and Vianne and her daughter are not religious, affecting the mayor who runs the town and villagers are uneasy to welcome them to their community. Eventually, the villagers embrace Vianne because of how she is helping their morality and rigidness.  When Vianne opens her chocolate shop, on Sunday hours. She always welcomes the villagers to come inside and taste her delicious chocolate. By introducing the villagers to her shop, more people came to look inside and taste chocolate. The store has many Mayan culture items because of a family's tradition and culture. She has a Mayan is a ritual...

What is the Thanksgiving holiday? The holiday is a day for a group of people to celebrate that everyone is done with work, This holiday is often enjoyed with family members. In the custom of a holiday, in specific Thanksgiving, the food is often traditional like turkey, ham and mashed potatoes. Does Thanksgiving relate to traditions, multiculturalism and ethnic identity in the film What’s Cooking?  In the film, four different ethnic families are Asian, African, Latin and Jewish. The four families have food traditions that correlate to their Thanksgiving. How do the four families prepare Thanksgiving? In each family, the women cook  Thanksgiving and the men watching football or relax in their living rooms. It looks like a basic Thanksgiving tradition. Furthermore in the film, each family cooks their traditional Thanksgiving food as well as ethnic food of their culture.. Nguyen’s family, who are Asian, cook spring rolls and also put Asian spices on half of the turkey. In Wi...