Dinner & a Movie
An evening in two acts.
Some films make you hungry. Not for popcorn — for the meal on the screen. The risotto in Big Night. The quail in Like Water for Chocolate. The fried green tomatoes themselves.
An evening in two acts.
Some films make you hungry. Not for popcorn — for the meal on the screen. The risotto in Big Night. The quail in Like Water for Chocolate. The fried green tomatoes themselves.
Dinner & a Movie brings that meal off the screen and into your kitchen. Together we’ll cook a four-course meal, enjoy it while watching the film that inspired it, and — once the credits roll — I’ll share what twenty years behind a camera taught me about why these films still feed us.
You and your guests join me in the kitchen as sous chefs. I bring the ingredients, the knives, and the technique; you bring the curiosity. Together we cook the meal the film made famous.
Then the film begins, and the meal is served. When the credits roll, dessert arrives, and so does the conversation: the choices the director made, the stories behind the food, the things you only see on the second watch.
Big Night — the seafood risotto that defined the modern food movie.
Like Water for Chocolate — quail in rose petal sauce, and the magical realism of a Mexican kitchen.
Eat Drink Man Woman — Ang Lee’s love letter to a Taiwanese Sunday table.
Fried Green Tomatoes — Southern comfort, crab cakes, and the Whistle Stop Café.
Have another favorite food film you’d love to cook through? Ask.
Intimate by design — three to eight guests. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my regular evenings; other nights by arrangement.
Pricing starts at $1,000, which covers the masterclass, the cooking instruction, and the post-film discussion. Ingredients are billed per guest based on the menu and the market.
You provide the screen and the film; I provide everything else.