Notebook #8 - Shoestring Spaghetti

Like a good dinner party, Issue 8 of Notebook—devoted to food on film—embraces a sense of delicious possibility. Inside, you’ll find meals aplenty. Alfred Hitchcock cooks up quiche Lorraine with his wife Alma Reville. Cultural luminaries like Esther Kinsky, Wesley Morris, Eileen Myles, and Robert Sietsema bring their favorite cinematic dishes to a potluck dinner (cup of coffee from My Dinner with André, meet The Turin Horse’s potato). Join filmmaker Courtney Stephens for a “power lunch” in her centerpiece essay on the late 20th century Hollywood dining ritual. Elsewhere, film experts (Simran Hans, Charlie Fox, and Vikram Murthi) sit down with culinary figures (chef Nick Bramham, stylist Olivia Somary, and butcher Dario Cecchini) for digressive dialogues about food films: for one, is garlic truly as good as ten mothers? Other delectable treats include: illustrated tablespreads by Alice Tye and Manon Cezaro, a devious comic by Liam Cobb, Elissa Suh on feral eating in feminist cinema, and food stylist Christine Tobin speaks to the pleasures of preparing food for the screen. Plus, George Miller brings his forward-looking eye to our “Things a Filmmaker Should Know” series.