My mother worked at our family's restaurants while going to nursing school. After school, the bus would drop my sister and I off in front of the restaurant. We would do our homework and then spend the rest of the evening rolling the plastic flatware in napkins or assembling the cardboard boxes for takeout orders.
Sitting so close to the kitchen granted us a few privileges; the most important was smelling the wonderful food that came from the kitchen and snacking on whatever my grandmother happened to be cooking at the time. Both of the restaurants, one run by my grandparents, the other by my great aunt and uncle, were seafood restaurants. Patrons could pick their fish from the counter, it would be cleaned and fried to perfection and the join the requested side dishes in the cardboard boxes we'd assembled. The deep fryers were always going and my grandmother and her sister could fry anything.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
The Hundred-Foot Journey- Where Every Bite Takes You Home
Growing
up, my favorite part of school was lunch. It wasn’t because it meant that we
were free to play and the rigors of class were left behind, at least for 45
minutes, but because lunchtime meant going to grandma’s house where I would
find a heaping bowl of macaroni (it wasn’t called pasta back then) smothered in
butter with of course all of the gumdrops I could smuggle out of the candy jar
on my way back to school. I’m not sure
if it was the meal or the fact that I was spending time with her, but to this
day macaroni and butter is my go to meal when I’m in need of comfort. What bite
takes you home?
In
DreamWorks Pictures’ “The Hundred-FootJourney,” opening in theaters August 8, the opening of a new Indian
restaurant in the south of France next to a famous Michelin-starred eatery is
nearly cause for a heated battle between the two establishments, until Le Saule
Pleureur’s icy proprietress, Madame Mallory, recognizes her rival’s undeniable
brilliance for preparing masterful meals.
Directed
by Academy Award-nominee Lasse Hallström and starring Academy Award-winner
Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal and Charoltte Le Bon, “The Hundred-Foot
Journey” is produced by Academy
Award-winner Steven Spielberg, Academy Award-nominee Oprah Winfrey and Juliet
Blake marking “marks the first time
Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey have worked together since “The Color
Purple” in 1985. The executive producers
are Caroline Hewitt, Carla Gardini, Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King with the
screenplay written by Academy Award-nominee Steven Knight, based on the novel
“The Hundred-Foot Journey” by Richard C. Morais.
“The Hundred-Foot Journey”
abounds
with flavors that burst across the tongue. A stimulating triumph over exile,
blossoming with passion and heart, it is a portrayal of two worlds colliding
and one young man’s drive to find the comfort of home, in every pot, wherever
he may be. The
actual distance from Le Saule Pleureur Restaurant to the Maison Mumbai is not
far: one-hundred feet, no more, no less. It’s a journey albeit a small one –
that both the Kadam family and Madame Mallory make numerous times throughout
the film, but it represents more than just the distance between these two locations.
It’s that point in our lives where we step out of our comfort zone and cross
over into unfamiliar territory on a quest of self-discovery.
“Every Bite
Takes You Home”
Food
Network Star Chef Bal Arneson was inspired to create these dishes in honor of
the movie. To save any of them so you can try each of these burst of flavors right in your own kitchen, simply right click the recipe and save it to your computer. Bon Appetit- Now let the cooking begin!
Now
that you’ve had a chance to cook with the best, what are your favorite recipes
where “every bite takes you home”? “Every
hundred-foot journey is like ‘The Wizard of Oz,’” shared producer Oprah Winfrey. “It’s never any
further than your own backyard. And food can bring back a fondness or a feeling
of being nurtured, supported and loved. Every bite makes you think of being
loved and every bite takes you home.”
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