The French and The Food....a real love story

Have you ever noticed how food is important in French movies? It actually is. Probably because French gastronomy has a strong reputation worldwide.
Anyway I have to say, French food is damn good!
So here is a selection of few French food-oriented movies. Tell me if I forgot your favourite one.

- Crème brulée in Amélie
This movie has won every award possible French awards and it’s quite hard to find someone who doesn’t like Amélie. No wonder why! There is a classic scene where Amelie cracks with a back of a spoon, her crème brulee. Japanese girls still reproduce this action when they go to Les Deux Moulins, the café where the main character works.
The creme brulee is first attested in France, in Massialot's cookbook, in 1691. The French name was used in the English translation of this book, but in the early 18th century, it was called "burnt cream" in English. Whether it comes from France, England or Spain (called Crema Catalana) is unclear. (wikipedia.org)
Recipe of the Creme Brulee

- Ratatouille
The movie was a hit; it tells the story of Remy a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef.
The word Ratatouille comes from "touiller," which means to toss food. Ratatouille originated in the area around present day Nice. It was, originally, a poor farmer's dish, prepared in the summer with fresh summer vegetables. The original Ratatouille Niçoise did not contain eggplant (which would not have been available during the same time period as the other vegetables used). Instead, it used only zucchini, tomatoes, green and red, onion, and garlic. The dish known today as Ratatouille adds eggplant to that mixture. (wikipedia.org)
Recipe for the ultimate ratatouille

- Chocolat
The movie tells the story of a young mother who arrives at a French village with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople.
The word "chocolate" comes from the Aztecs of Mexico. The Aztecs associated chocolate with the goddess of fertility. Chocolate has been used solely as a drink for nearly all of its history. The chocolate residue found in an early classic ancient Maya pot suggests that Mayans were drinking chocolate around 400 A.D. roughly two-thirds of the entire world's cocoa is produced in Western Africa, with close to half of the total sourced from Côte d'Ivoire. (wikipedia.org)

- The Dinner Game
This movie is hilarious. Plot? A famous Parisian publisher, attends a weekly "idiots' dinner", where guests, who are prominent Parisian businessmen (and therefore, it is implied, intelligent), must each bring along an "idiot" whom the other invitees can tease. At the end of the dinner, the evening's champion idiot is selected. (wikipedia.org)
There isn’t anything specific to food in the movie but the whole story is axed around this dinner which will never happen anyway, at least not in the original terms.