Ruth Reichl

America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.

Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.

미국 음식문화의 새 장을 열었던 셰프 제러마이아 타워의 이야기를 다룬 다큐멘터리

퓰리처상을 수상한 음식 평론가 조너선 골드의 안내로 다양한 인종들이 만들어내는 요리를 통해 로스앤젤레스라는 도시의 신비, 그리고 미국의 정신을 엿보는 다큐멘터리. 골드는 녹색 소형트럭을 타고 메뚜기 수프, 수제 돈코츠 라멘, 살살 녹는 팟씨유 같은 흥미로운 음식들을 발견해낸다. 집안에 전해 내려오는 비밀 레시피로 아메리칸 드림을 실현하려는 이민자들의 이야기도 함께 펼쳐진다. 끝없는 호기심,날카로운 지성, 실존주의적 열망으로 무장한 조너선 골드와 함께 LA의 식문화 지형을 탐색하는 영화로, 선댄스영화제에서 상영됐다. (2017년 제3회 서울국제음식영화제)

Eat This New York is the story of two best friends' struggle to open a restaurant in the food capital of the world. As Billy Phelps and John McCormick suffer through financial crisis, the loss of their chef, and a crumbling relationship, the filmmakers turn the camera on New York City's legendary restaurateurs who prove that dreams can come true. Billy and John's gamble to open a restaurant together takes shape on Division Street, a unique block in Brooklyn that separates the Satmar Jewish community of Williamsburg from the Latino neighborhood of the South Side. During the course of a year, they convert a former check-cashing shop located under the elevated train tracks of the J/M/Z subway lines into a retro speakeasy. But before the restaurant is fully built they come close to bankruptcy and almost call it quits on their friendship.

Every great cook secretly believes in the power of food. Alice Waters just believes this more than anybody else. She is certain that we are what we eat, and she has made it her mission in life to make sure that people eat beautifully. Waters is creating a food revolution, even if she has to do it one meal at a time.

A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.