Fanis, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, recalls his childhood growing up as a Greek boy in Istanbul and the time spent with his shopkeeper grandfather learning about life and, in particular, the art of cooking. And it was here, in his grandfather's store, that he first fell in love, with Saime. After political tensions over Cyprus in 1963 Fanis's family were deported, but his grandfather stayed in Istanbul, and it is decades later that they meet again as Fanis returns 'home', after yea find out more...

Small time gangster Louis's son has taken over the family restaurant and turned it from traditional fare to a successful trendy nouvelle cuisine outlet. We follow the conversations from tables of diners, art critics, gangsters, police, predatory females et al, and the work force, both up and downstairs, all against a smart thriller backdrop. Altmanesque, brilliant and gastronomic. find out more...

Paul and Mary Bland dream of owning a restaurant, if only they had the cash. Sickened by their neighbours' nightly orgies, the prudish pair suddenly realise that swingers have one thing in their favour, they're all loaded! And besides who'd miss them...? An outrageously irreverent, most deliciously black, comic collision of sex, food and murder. find out more...

What more can be said about this classic series from Brit TV. find out more...

'Julie and Julia' tells the story of 2 women; Julia Childs, who wrote 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' and 'My Life in France', the latter of which is adapted for one half of this film, and Julie Powell, a present day New Yorker who, to escape the tedium of her own life, decided to cook her way through Julia's 524 recipes and writes a blog about doing so. The parallels and the differences between their two lives are highlighted. In the more interesting of the 2 stories Meryl Streep contin find out more...

An awesomely shot, sci-fi-like tableau of the high technologies and production line techniques involved in the modern food production industry. Shot with a Nietzschean eye to the beauty of man's mastery of nature and with a dry Germanic sense of humour "Our Daily Bread" may ignore both the damage to nature and the cruelty involved in these processes, but it sure makes fabulous art and great cinema. find out more...

Notice how the "restaurants" that the clown from Stephen King's "IT" used to advertise have gone all salad bar selection recently, well this horrifying but hugely entertaining documentary may well bear some responsibility. Curious as to why the population of America were so grossly overweight Morgan Spurlock declared himself a guinea pig and conducted a 30 day experiment that saw his diet consist entirely of McDonalds. The result of Spurlock's eating habits have to come close to some kind of con find out more...