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7 April 2010 4:02 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Hungry? Let Jan Jarventaus cook up the perfect ingredients for cinematic explorations of the culinary arts

Cookery shows used to be a sterile affair, a simple Ikea assembly manual of what to do, to the letter. Then the small screen invented gastroporn and life has never tasted the same. Cinema, however, has always had a healthy fascination with the sensual aspects of this transformation of raw material into a heady brew – a fascination undoubtedly nurtured in part in earlier days by taboos and proscriptions on what could be considered appropriate expressions of sensual delights.

The food recipe also has strong metaphorical links with the notion of alchemy: a skilled practitioner performs a feat of magical transmutation of base elements which are mere lumps of lead in the hands of the non-adept.

There are obvious cases in cinema where hard-to-swallow themes are leavened by a love of food entering the equation. »

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