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Henry's Favorite Los Gatos Library Food DVDs

Our faithful librarian Henry Bankhead recommends these cooking and food movies for your enjoyment.

—Contributed by Los Gatos Librarian Henry Bankhead

1. Chef: Seasons 1-3

ungry for a laugh? The BBC serves up more than a few chuckles in this engaging sitcom about imperious chef Gareth Blackstock (Lenny Henry), a stern taskmaster who runs his kitchen with an iron fist, a lightning tongue, and a silver palate. (amazon)

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2. Mostly Martha

An uptight gourmet chef learns to loosen up when she becomes the caretaker of her orphaned niece, and meets an Italian chef.

3. Iron chef America

Features five of the world's greatest chefs going head to head in four action packed battles.

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4. The French chef

Julia Child provides instruction on French cooking. 

5. Eat drink man woman

A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.

6. Julie & Julia

Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it.

7. Tampopo

Satire about food and sex, parodying traditional samurai and western films, in which a young widow, trying to cook the perfect bowl of ramen in her small restaurant, is helped by a truck driver.

8. Big night

An intimate look at the immigrant struggle to attain the American Dream, set in New Jersey in the 1950s. (amazon) 

9. BABETTE'S FEAST DVD

In Babette's Feast, a woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and decides to create a real French dinner--which leads the sisters to fear for their souls. (amazon)

10. Dinner rush

A son's criminal involvement causes chaos at his father's popular Italian restaurant.


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