Thinking
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I’m Julia Child. Bon appétit!”, says the most famous chef of American TV. In the early sixties, she showed housewives that another world outside hamburgers and apple-pies was possible, all with the flavour of high French cuisine. The start of Julia Child’s career in the cooking profession is portrayed in the American 2009 movie, Julie & Julia, where Meryl Streep plays the character of a bored Californian lady, who after attending a French cooking course, becomes the pioneer of TV cooking shows. 58
Food can be of primary importance in the imagination behind a film. To find a movie where food is not shown in any way is quite difficult. Actually many movies have food as the main concept: it is often not only seen as a necessary to life but, as a symbol or expression of a specific culture as well as tool to bring people together. A recent movie with food at the heart of it, is Soul Kitchen, by the German director Fath Akin. It is a bittersweet comedy about a restaurant in Hamburg that goes through some difficult