Monday, July 18, 2011

Southern Cooking on Film

Food and Wine reports on a new film.
"About 20 minutes into the movie, you're craving fried chicken," says director Tate Taylor. That movie is The Help, the new film based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel; it stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer and costars platter after platter of incredibly delicious-looking Southern food. The Help examines the complicated relationships between African-American maids and their white employers in 1960s Mississippi, and since the story crosses race and class lines, the cooking does too. There are scenes of ladies' luncheons with tomato aspic and cocktail meatballs, and scenes calling for soul food like collard greens, black-eyed peas and, of course, that craveable fried chicken. "Food is just everywhere," says Taylor. (Read entire article.)
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