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palate by trying just about
every dish he is served. "The
great thing about going to a
restaurant — besides the food
— is the ambience and what
goes on behind the scenes.
"How you feel when you
walk out of a restaurant is not
totally related to what's on
your plate. If you know the
history behind the place — its
story, the nuances and the
characters — that makes the
restaurant a lot more fun."
When the show started, in
early 1999, 26 weekly episodes
were taped, and that represented
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Entertainment
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Saturday

And The
Award
Goes To

Marc Silverstein, right, and Jill Cordes
of the Food Network's "The Best Of"•
really like the dives," Silverstein con es

"If only the Academy
Awards had categories for
best food in film," laments
Doris Weisberg. Then the
food/film historian laughs
and names her top picks. If
she held an awards ceremo-
ny, she notes, she'd hand out
copper skillets instead of
golden statuettes.

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Best Food Film:
Babette's Feast (1987)
Director: Gabriel Axel
(Denmark)

Food as the Best Actor
in a Food Film:

while he was a student at former
state Rep. Jack Faxon's
International School. While learn-
ing about France, he immersed
himself in the cuisine of the coun-
try and began turning out "fabu-
lous" chocolate mousse desserts,
recalls his mother. He also became
a disciple of Euell Gibbons, a
1960s cookbook author and envi-
ronmentalist who advocated find-
ing ingredients in nature to facili-
tate living off of the land.
"It was a short-lived fascination,
thank God," Sally Sanfield says,
recalling she was the only one in the
family who sampled David's
HOME-GROWN on page 77

Eat Drink Man Woman
(1994)
Director: Ang Lee
(Taiwan)

David Sanfield:
The Franklin
native will
return home
to cater the
filming of Billy
Crystal's HBO
film "61*."

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Whodunit Food Film:

Who Is Killing the Great
Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Director: Ted Kotcheff
(USA)

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First Food Film:

"Tampopo (1986)

Director: Juzo Itami

(Japan)

Complex and Interesting
Food Film:

The Cook, The Thief, His
Wife Her Lover (1990)
Director: Peter Greenaway
(France)

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Pie-Throwing Scene:

On the other hand, besides
shooting to stardom in When Harry
Met Sally, Meg Ryan gets absolutely
everything exactly the way she wants
it when she gives one picky
order after another when
dining out with Billy
Crystal.
"Nicholson's plight is
reflective of an uptight
society going through
explosive times with the
counterculture," says
Weisberg. "Ryan's experi-
ences, though, show how
much society has loosened
up and become a play-
MEALS on page 78

Food/film scholar Doris Weisberg
holds a pie in front of the spectacular
pie-throwing scene from Blake
Edwards' "The Great Race."

The Great Race (1965)
Director: Blake Edwards
(USA)

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Food Documentary:

Off the Menu: The Last
Days of Chasens (1997)
Directors: Shari Springer
Berman .and Robert Pulcini
(USA)

Controversial Food Film
La Grand Bouffe (1973)
Director: Marco Ferreri
(France)

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Copley News Service

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