Hit the post title for a take on cooking scenes in movies.
Excerpt:
". . . cooking, perhaps more than any activity, lets an actor exude absolute physical and intellectual mastery without seeming domineering or smug. Why is that? It's probably because, while cooking is a creative talent that has a certain egotistical component (what good cook isn’t proud of his or her skills?), there's something inherently humbling about preparing food for other people."
More broadly, kitchens are where characters froth and fume, meet and mingle, rage and remember. Even if they're just eating cereal.
The cook doesn't even have to be on screen to get a shout-out. Why else would Clemenza order "Leave the gun; take the cannoli."
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