The magisterial Margaret Rutherford quizzing a hapless Alastair Sim about digestive biscuits.

 

Michael Redgrave, Michael Dennison and Dame Edith Evans give as much importance to a cucumber sandwich as they do to being earnest.

 

The  French director Claude Chabrol takes his food very seriously. Even the humble fried egg must be cooked perfectly.

Valencia market in Spain. One of the great indoor markets in Europe, its enormous area houses virtually every type of food available.

La Dolce Vita 2007. The Italian-themed food exhibition at Olympia and we loved it!

 

Marcel Hillaire, one of the screen's great character actors, teaches a class of would be Cordon Bleu graduates that includes Audrey Hepburn how to crack an egg. A scene from Billy Wilder's frothy comedy "Sabrina".

 

Richard Craig on misleading wine label terminology.

Vielles Vignes, Reserve Wine, Cuvée.  Do they have any real meaning?

 

 

 

One of the truly great food scenes in modern cinema. Jack Nicholson somehow manages to be both patient, sarcastic and frightening all at the same time.

 

 

Alfred Hitchcock's wicked sense of humour at work again.

The Year of the Tiger is not considered auspicious  for marriage, so in the last days of the Year of the Ox there was a rush of weddings.  Lily and Wan Li held their wedding banquet in Guangzhou on 31st January - a magnificent event with a 13 course meal.  The dishes are almost always the same and there are hidden, lucky meanings in most of them.