People love food. And travel. And movies. This list brings together these three loves in one place. Read on to find more movies that will make your mouth water and wandering feet.
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Chef (2014)
Chef is the ideal cinematic experience for the food traveler. In it, burned-out chef Carl Caspar (Jon Favreau) is fired from his restaurant and, as a last resort, opens a food truck where he makes perfect tacos. While driving across the United States with his ex-wife (SofÃa Vergara) and son to sell their food, the chef connects with his son about the diversity of American food. They savor beignets in New Orleans, brisket in Texas, and Cubans in Miami. From coast to coast, the film is infused with a passion for food and creativity, as well as joy and family love.
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Ratatouille (2007)
One of the sweetest food travel movies, Ratatouille , features an unlikely chef, Remy, the country rat. Remy leaves his small town and, by chance, lands in the kitchens of the old Paris restaurant, Gusteau’s, which has lost its stars (a nod to the famous Michelin stars). Remy finds an unlikely ally in the kitchen boy named Linguini and, together, they prepare magical dishes that make the restaurant the best foodie destination in town, pleasing even the harshest restaurant critic in town.
This beautiful film will leave you hungry for the peasant food of Provence and the excellent restaurants of Paris. The restaurant shows that “not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere “.
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Like water for chocolate (1992)
In Like Water for Chocolate , Tita de la Garza (Lumi Cavazos) was born on the kitchen table in her home in rural Mexico, joining her life, heart and soul to cooking. Your emotions play with your food. The rose-petalled quail sent by the man who loves Tita causes men and women to fall into frenzied passion, and a wedding cake infected with Tita’s bitter tears makes people nauseous. This beautiful film combines superstition, magic, food, travel, and love in one compelling story.
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Chocolate (2000)
Chocolat looks so good it will make your mouth water. Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk are nomads, they move around Europe and spread their love for chocolate and food. They arrive in a small traditional French town where the Count (Alfred Molina) proclaims that Vianne’s chocolates are a sin. Nonetheless, Vianne soon ventures into the community, makes friends, protects an abused wife from her husband, and eventually falls in love with a nomadic gypsy named Roux (Johnny Depp.) The food is decadent, the scenery is beautiful, and both are Vianne and Roux’s itchy feet will make your feet move to the nearest French pastry shop.
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Eat Pray Love (2010)
One of the most popular food travel movies is Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts) leaves the safe confines of her life in New York City on a journey of self-fulfillment to Italy, India, and Indonesia. In particular, she makes her way through Italy, with a memorable pizza stop at L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Naples, where she says, “I’m in love. I have a relationship with my pizza. Although he wasn’t a fan of the story and its self-absorbed main character, there’s no question that the superb cinematography and focus on food will leave you with a serious case of wanderlust food.
