Do you enjoy Nora Maynard's weekly column on cocktails, Straight Up? And perhaps you enjoyed her previous column about cooking and classic film, The Celluloid Pantry. Well, if so, and if you live in N...
It's been a fun food-and-film-filled run for us here at The Celluloid Pantry. During our two years at The Kitchn, we've covered dozens of dinners, drinks, desserts, and culinary triumphs--and disaster...
December being the biggest month for bubbly, it seems only fitting that this week we take a look at some of our favorite champagne moments on the big screen. From buttoned-up Soviet officials to blond...
It's party season! And to help you get into the spirit of things, this week at The Celluloid Pantry, we're taking a look at some deliciously memorable bashes from three classic films. (This is ...
The drinks say it all in this romantic holiday classic. Beginning with cocktails and ending with a potion, Bell Book and Candle (1958) is a bewitching love story told in beverages:...
So this angel walks into a bar'. In Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life (1946), the angel is the dim, but well-meaning Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers, right), and the bar is Nick's, a place full of ...
A rich and satisfying after-dinner drink blended from vodka, coffee liqueur, and light cream, the White Russian could almost be said to have it all. A one-stop source of alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and...
Question: What do an 80s romantic comedy starring Cher, a 40s musical chock full of Betty Grable song and dance numbers, and a recent futuristic film based on a darkly subversive graphic novel have in...
[Beginning this week, we'll be rerunning some favorites from The Celluloid Pantry while Nora enjoys a writer's residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts. We'll be back with all-new posts December 4....
This being a cooking site, we usually try to keep things tasteful at The Celluloid Pantry. But this week, in honor of Halloween, we’re venturing back into the dark corners of the cinematic cupboard to...
"I'm going to get some more milk." First time we meet the title character in Léon: The Professional (1994) (played to perfection by Jean Reno, left), he's at the bar of The Supreme Macaroni Co...
Ever since Steven Spielberg featured Reese’s Pieces in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial (1982), famously causing sales of the candy to jump 80%, product placement has become big business in movies and TV. N...
A delicately floral-scented cocktail with a smooth, creamy finish, and the heady kick of gin, the Ramos Gin Fizz is the perfect drink for a Southern femme fatale. Invented in 1888 by Henrico C. Ramo...
"They're Alice B. Toklas. It's her recipe. She wrote a freaky cookbook." In I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968), worlds collide over coffee and cake. Returning home after a long day at the office, st...
"Twenty millions and you don't know how to dunk." Donuts have long been an American staple, but in 1934 they hit the big time when they were billed as "The Hit Food of the Century of Progress," and c...
[Beginning this week, we'll be rerunning some favorites from The Celluloid Pantry while Nora enjoys a writer's residency at The Ragdale Foundation. We'll be back with all-new posts October 9.] Every ...
A James Bond movie is nothing without champagne, and so it only stands to reason that any good James Bond spoof needs a silly scene where corks get popped. Fortunately Casino Royale (1967) rises to t...
"We used to swap shots between drinks, or drinks between shots, whichever you like." Although the convoluted plot of The Big Sleep (1946) is notoriously difficult to follow, the dialogue - and the dr...
This is going to sound odd. But of all the food seduction scenes in movies, this one’s our favorite. While the elegant picnic innuendo in To Catch a Thief (“a leg or a breast?”) and the racy dinner-ta...
In honor of this month’s theme of Escapes, it’s time to think outside the movie theater, beyond the living room sofa, and get out onto the grass! (For inspiration, here's Kurt Russell busting out of a...
Was director Billy Wilder a kitchen renegade? Maybe. Let's take a look at the evidence so far: We've already witnessed Sugar Kane's (Marilyn Monroe) cocktail improvisation in Wilder's 1959 classic, S...
With all the recent talk about what NASA types eat in orbit (Swedish meatballs whipped up by Rachael Ray and jambalaya BAM!-ed out by Emeril), and following last month's furor over just what and how m...
Nineteenth-Century peasants, a rubber-boot wearing bird lover, a magazine-pedaling teacher, French kids with dreadlocks, and a two-star chef—these are some of the culinary scavengers you’ll meet in Ag...
Does all wine necessarily get better with age? Short answer: No. But in the late 70s, director/actor Orson Welles famously brought the oversimplified notion home to TV viewers when he did a turn as pi...
Few restaurants can boast as many screen credits as New York’s 21 Club. ...
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