Coriander Leaf presents... Screen Cuisine
Food & Movie Pairings - Menus constructed around films

Movies and Dining are irreducibly pleasurable events 
which enable us to embrace any culture. By combining
movies and dining you can fully engage all your senses
and create an utterly unique evening for you and your 
friends!
Food is represented in cinema in so many different ways.
Sometimes the film is about food itself or about people 
who are passionate about cooking (Babette’s Feast; Big Night;
Mostly Martha). Sometimes, food and cooking is used as a
culturally-laden metaphor to denote love, sex, family and
relationships (Like Water for Chocolate; Eat, Drink, Man,
Woman). At times, corner-stone cinematic scenes involve food
(Jack Nicholson ordering a sandwich in Five Easy Pieces; the
wedding feast in The Godfather; the nuptial festivities in Monsoon
Wedding).  Food has evoked great movie lines (“Luca Brasi sleeps
with the fishes” (The Godfather);“it is in the zee wrist” (Billy Wilder
cracking an egg in Sabrina). On occasion, restaurants have been used
as the essential settings of unforgettable movies
(Rick’s Café in Casablanca).

Great entertainment involves creating a consistently wonderful series
of experiences for your guests and yourself.  Mixing food and movies
allows you to create great entertainment events – the format can
accommodate those who want to watch movies, those who want to
watch movie sand eat and those who want to watch movies, eat and
chat.  Indeed, you can introduce an endless variety of experiences … 
watch and eat at the same time (with people drifting between scenes
and courses), combine a small cooking session with the movie and 
dinner or fuse the event with an appropriate cultural theme ….