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BY NAOMI & HERB*
Rappahannock Newt : ?
Contributing Writer* v<v~<
The focus of out video reviews this week is something we all have in common, food! Family seems to be at the heart of many movies about food, and several of these six movies we chose are no exception.
• Soul Food: Three generations of a contemporary Blacks American family grapple with serious social issues in this 1997, two hour film.
Three sisters, their husbands, children and “Big Mama” have Sunday dinner each week, and the conversations are often contentious. Usually at the table is also the “Preacher”, perfectly cast as a slightly oily, but lovable character. i
We watch the preparation of corn bread, fish cakes, biscuits, fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, peach cobbler, ham hocks, greens, black-eyed peas, chitlins, fried catfish, potato salad, dumplings and com on the cob. Big mama tells the children that when folks were poor, cooking became'a way of sharing love, and Sunday dinners, more than just eating, a way of sharing family.
One of the great lines, expressed by one of the sister’s husband is “You don’t ever want to tell a woman, especially a black woman, that you don’t have a job!”
• Like Water For Chocolate: 1993/94, 105 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles. - Set in 1895 Rio Grande, Mexico, this fantasy love story opens in the kitchen, where our heroine, bom on the table, becomes forever enamored with food.
Denied her true love by her cruel mama, she pours all
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