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Oscar 2019: along with the films, the dishes also compete – Italian Cuisine

If we associate a plate with each of the 8 films nominated for the 2019 Oscars, a complete lunch would come out. Here's the menu

A first course, a second course, a side dish, a dessert and even the ammazzacaffè. There are many stories that compete for the most coveted statuette and tell of ancient recipes, real must-haves of the local cuisine. Here then that if we associate a plate with each of the 8 films nominated for the Oscars 2019 a complete lunch would come out.

Green book

A bit like Green book, the film by Peter Farrelly that tells of the true friendship between the black musician Don Shirley and the white driver Tony Vallelonga. In a scene that is already cult, Don and Tony are in the car, the wind coming through the dusty windows and the free, uncontaminated expanses of field. Tony, who is good-mouthed, sticks a chicken leg fried in his mouth between turns and the other: food that Don, to the detriment of what the popular belief said, has never tasted in his life. Hence Viggo Mortensen's insistence on taking Mahershala Ali to recover the gap. The musician is skeptical, takes the chicken with his fingertips, careful not to get dirty, but then bite and recognize that, yes, living all that time without the joy of crispy breading was a great pity.

A star is born

Truly true, but not for this less tasty, is the icy steak that Bradley Cooper lays on Lady Gaga's knuckles in A star is born. They know each other just when she attacks a molester in a bar. Together they go to a night market and, in the absence of a medical aid kit, here comes the steak to reduce the swelling. We would like to wish that, immediately after the clapperboard, the troupe cooked it on the grill: it was still the steak placed on Lady Gaga's little hand.

Still taken from "Green Book" by Peter Farrelly.

Blackkklansman

Traditional, however, is the stew that Mrs. Kendrickson cooks in Blackkklansman by Spike Lee. A dish of the South, which warms the already inflamed souls of those who would like the Ku Klux Klan back into the limelight to punish all the blacks who are free, who fight for their rights and organize riots to make the government understand that in America there are they too.

Rome

The traditional dishes are also those that you breathe in Rome, a small masterpiece by Alfonso Cuarón and super-favorite for the win. Cleo, for the middle-bourgeois family of Mexico City he works for, is much more than a housekeeper. It takes care of the needs of the dog, lava, cleans, cares for children and prepares them the dishes they prefer. Those who, as the director at the Venice Film Festival had pointed out, smell like home, all over the film.

Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody

If spaghetti, the favorite food of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, in Vice they are almost never seen, Bohemian Rhapsody reveals something more than Freddie Mercury's eating habits that, as we know, went crazy for the spices that he could no longer send down once he discovered the disease that would have turned him off slowly, day after day.

The favorite

Remaining in the realm of characters really existed, along with Cheney and Mercury, here is also Queen Anne of England, the despotic and capricious protagonist of The favorite. She suffers from colitis and the most delicate foods cause cramps and pains. Too bad that they are also his favorite: like hot chocolate, that the lady companion Sarah advises her not to sip because of its intestinal problems, or the green cake that Anne of England sends down bite after bite to vomit, dry your mouth and start again.

Black Panther

Very little, however, we know about the food that is consumed in Wakanda, the imaginary land in the heart of the Black Continent where he lives Black Panther. Given the comforts and luxuries of the palaces and squares, something tells us that the palates of the royal family of T'Challa are anything but common. And who knows that during the ceremony of delivery of the Oscars do not find a menu up to par.

What do you eat at the Oscar ceremony? – Italian Cuisine

The stars await the award ceremony on an empty stomach. But then they are repaid by a menu … from Oscar, of course

It's when the spotlights turn off that the real show starts. Even at the night of the Oscars where, exhausted by the anxiety and the speeches on the stage, the guests can finally enjoy a well-earned rest and an excellent dinner. Unlike what happens at the Golden Globe delivery, with the candidates banqueting round tables already during the ceremony, the Oscars foresee that for the food there is a moment apart. It happens at the Governors Ball after party: an opportunity to congratulate the winners, pose for the usual photos and, above all, put something under the teeth. But what exactly provides a Oscar menu?

The evening, which every year takes place at the Ray Dolby Ballroom with about 1500 people including actors, actresses, directors, producers, candidates, stars and starlettes to feed, finally allows to refresh as it would be. The ceremony at the Dolby Theater, traditionally, makes them stay stubborn and the only, very welcome, exception was the initiative of the presenter Ellen DeGeneres who, in 2014, thought well to order pizza for everyone. Meryl Streep, the actress with the highest number of nominations in the history of cinema, came to the top of the steaming cartoons, but there was certainly no problem raising a slice even at the risk of getting her dress dirty. In 2018, chef Wolfgang Puck, who has been guiding the Oscars "stoves" since 1994, made sure that the guests were welcomed by an ice bar where they served a parfait of caviar with golden leaves, crab claws, lobster and raw scallops.

Following the menu was a Japanese Wagyu beef tartare with black rice, taro tocos (a typical Polynesian root) decorated with lime wedges and aubergines. With the stars, however, it is better to arrive prepared, and here is also the vegan option, with baked pasta with late truffle and cheese and homemade spinach bells with peas, baby onions and baked tomatoes. As a dessert, Puck's proposal, which in Los Angeles has made an important name thanks to its restaurant WP24 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the result of the contamination between Californian and Asian cuisine, was all about the petite pâtisserie: macarons, tartelletes pink and litchi and seven thousand chocolate figurines in the shape of an Oscar winner. The classic, however, never dies and the images stolen in 2016 by Leonardo DiCaprio that was stuffed with grain donuts shortly after winning the Oscar will remain epic. And that the best wins.

Fried green tomatoes: the story of an Oscar dish – Italian Cuisine

Journey to discover one of the most famous dishes in the history of cinema, protagonist of a great film nominated for two Academy Awards in 199. And the recipe!

Tasty, golden, irresistible. Are the Fried Green Tomatoes, that recipe protagonist before the book Fried green tomatoes at Whistle Stop coffee and then of the 1991 film Fried green tomatoes at the train stop, a cult of the history of cinema, with those berries covered with bread that seemed to tie forever Idgie and Ruth, two women who were never afraid to fight against a world of rules that seemed to oppress them, bring them down to earth.

Recipe

The recipe, typical of the tradition of the southern United States, becomes incredibly popular, thanks to a certain ease in preparation and a unique flavor, which goes well with the milk sauce. Unlike the red ones, the green tomatoes are very firm and almost completely seedless, not to be confused with the green unripe tomatoes. It is a dish that makes the kitchen more appetizing, not only for its luxuriant color, but also for a new crunchiness, to be proposed as an appetizer or as a side dish. Once washed and cut into slices, the difficult will be to make the batter. After sieving 80 grams of cornmeal and another 80 grams of 00 flour, mixing them with 10 grams of sugar, prepare separately two eggs beaten together with salt and pepper. At this point you will only have to pass the slices of tomato first in the eggs and then in the mix of two flours twice: only after having cooked them in boiling oil and having pulled them out at the right time, beautiful golden, will be ready to taste and to be served hot, with particular attention not to overlap them once laid on the tray covered with plenty of absorbent paper.

The aromas of the South, the colors and the breading, will awaken those pristine landscapes of America of the Thirties. In particular, bringing us back to Whistle Stop, the town where the railway locomotives darted like lightning bolts and where Idgie and Ruth find shelter from the dangers of the world, when they lovingly run a coffee in the city center fighting against the prejudice of the old men of the country. Those who did not tolerate the self-sufficiency of two young people, but also the friendship they had with black men, men who were only good slaves for obedience. And who knows what to bite a fried green tomato can not suggest a distant echo and that film lovers will recognize immediately. An echo called "Towanda".