Movies and TvShows featuring "food-preparation" theme.

Giada De Laurentiis lets her hair down as she demonstrates her love for cooking and entertaining California-style in this disarmingly laid-back show that allows De Laurentiis to venture far afield from her usual Italian culinary fare.

A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop. He must navigate the challenges of working in a small kitchen with a strong-willed staff and deal with strained familial relationships. Meanwhile, he grapples with the impact of his brother's suicide.

After the death of Mao's mother - Pai - who was called the Goddess of Cuisine, Mao wants to be the Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. However, before Mao takes his mother's place as Master Chef, he travels to China in order to learn more of the many ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef just like his mother.

Barefoot Contessa is a TV show that follows celebrity chef Ina Garten as she prepares delicious recipes, shares cooking tips, and entertains friends in her gorgeous Hamptons home. From French cuisine to baking and dessert recipes, Ina's passion for cooking and sharing food shines through in every episode.

Mary celebrates the everyday food and ingredients she has always loved as she whips up tasty, family meals that are quick and simple to make.

A philosophy teacher invites a young woman to live with her during her vacation. As they spend more time together, jealousy arises and a series of misunderstandings ensue, ultimately leading to an unexpected turn of events.

A young chef cooks up a mysterious dish.

Daughters of the Dust tells the story of a Gullah family as they face the challenges of preserving their culture and traditions in the face of change. Set in 1902, the film explores themes of slavery, mysticism, and the complex relationships between family members. Told through the perspective of the great-great-grandmother and great-great-granddaughter, the film delves into the struggles and triumphs of the Gullah people.

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers is a documentary that explores the cultural significance of garlic and its impact on food and history. The film takes a look at the different ways garlic is used in various cuisines around the world and dives into the rituals and traditions surrounding its cultivation and consumption. Through interviews with chefs, farmers, and food historians, the film highlights the love and passion people have for this versatile ingredient.

Help Me, Eros is a dramatic movie that follows the story of a man who is struggling with addiction. He becomes involved in a series of events that lead him to contemplate suicide. Throughout the movie, themes of sexuality, perversion, and food addiction are explored.

The film is a psychological drama developing on the highlands of the Carpathian Mountains. Two helpless old men, brothers, desperately trying to keep up competition with each other in order to prolong their lives. Even though their bodies are decaying and both are sick the one still wants to outlive the other ... But one day a woman enters their remote dwelling...

A complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Reassemblage reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures.

A mystery about a gourmet in love with two different women who winds up poisoned.

Amazing Wedding Cakes is an American reality television series on WE tv that debuted on September 7, 2008. The series follows several bakers from around the country as they create high-end wedding cakes.

In the movie Flight To Mars, a reporter named Steve compels a scientist to reveal details of an upcoming expedition to Mars. Once on Mars, the crew crash-lands and discovers an underground civilization of Martians. As the crew explores the underground city, they face intrigue, betrayal, and the impending doom of the Martian civilization. Will they be able to find a way to escape and return to Earth?

SYNOPSIS. Fidel (Paolo Contis) is a fresh culinary arts graduate from a Swiss school, working as an under-chef in a casino restaurant in Macau. Fidel is compelled by his mother, Inay Viring (Maricel Laxa), to come back to their hometown in time for the first death anniversary of his father. Fidel starts apprenticing with the town's lechon master, Mang Carding (Jun Urbano) and falls in love with Carding's granddaughter, Carmel (Karylle). As the story moves forward, Fidel is constantly confronted by his familly's over-dependence on him, even if the eldest in the family is his Kuya Roger (Gerard Pizzaras), an ill-tempered trisikad driver. Meanwhile, Fidel's teen sister gets pregnant by her high school boyfriend, and before long has a bad miscarriage. At around the same time, Tiyo Pinoy (Michael de Mesa) stabs the lover of his wife Cora (Joanne Quintas). All this domestic turmoil happens while Fidel is struggling through his training as a litsonero with Mang Carding.

Culinary artist Nomi Shannon prepares luscious entrées and explains how to expand her recipes to feed a crowd. Nomi prepares raw lasagna, an all-raw pasta (with pesto, pomadoro, or marinara sauce), and a spinach mouse—the raw food answer to quiche!

The original king of "horrorcore" rap brings his gruesome antics to the screen in this raw and darkly humorous comedy horror effort that proves you are what you eat. Offering the twisted tale of a murderous gangsta plagued by a curse that forces him to eat what he kills, the homicidal thug soon takes a cue from Ed Gein and develops a curious taste for human flesh.

Documentary short subject detailing the processing and delivery of food to American troops, and the steps taken to improve these methods in order to cope with the exigencies of war.

From Spain With Love with Annie Sibonney is an English-language television show run on the Cooking Channel.