Jonathan Gold recommends 10 food-centric films

Our restaurant critic picks 10 of his favorite food movies, some of which are a bit more obscure than "Ratatouille."
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2018
A few years ago, I was asked to sit on the dissertation committee of a young woman whose academic obsession was cannibal movies and their place in the culture. I still don’t know as much about Lacanian theory as I probably should, but as it turned...
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