Ed Schoenfeld, dubbed "the curator of Chinese food in America" by Gourmet, tells Leonard Lopate how to order properly in a Chinese restaurant (how'd we do, Ed?) The episode aired at noon today on WNYC, so the podcast should be available shortly. Slate gives us a video slideshow of how chefs and cooking are portrayed in film, including Ratatouille, Big Night, and Mostly Martha. Best pasta to beat the heat -- the classic combo......

Foodies attack the silver screen! In today's Times Arts & Leisure section, the long history and current feast of food in film is given another look. Would there have even been a Big Night if not for the food? In the coming months, Russell Crowe, the first person we think of when the phrase "good taste" coming up, will star as a man who inherits a vineyard and Nora Ephron is working on an adaptation......

The blog Muckracked noticed that the old space where the restaurant Hue used to be was taken over as a restaurant movie set for the Scott Hicks-directed adaptation of the German film, Mostly Martha. Gothamist loved Mostly Martha (uptight German chef becomes guardian of surly niece while dealing with maverick Italian chef at her work), so we've been following news of the adaptation for a while (at one point, Big Chill director Lawrence Kasdan had......

After writing about how the upcoming movie, Raising Helen, seems like a real stinker, not to mention a poor cousin-once-removed from other someone-dies-and-leaves-self-centered-person-with-baby movies like the superior Mostly Martha, Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere posted this thought from Village Voice writer Justine Elias:NYC subway grafitti on movie posters is always good for gauging public reaction. Along with some added moustaches, beards, eyeglasses, and blackened teeth (every movie poster gets some of that), I've seen one......

This weekend, I plan to buy The Best of Paolo Conte CD. Why? Because he's got this fantastic craggy (like "Tom Waits" as the Amazon review says) voice that sounds wonderful over the jazzy sort of bossa nova rhythms...bosso pop-like. His song, "Via Con Me," was featured prominently in the film, Mostly Martha, and when the song was played yesterday, I immediately went to Google to find out who sang it. There is what......

If you're an intense professional in a movie or sitcom, watch out. Because a relative will die, leaving to you care for their children (via some tragic incident). But at least comic antics will ensue. Last week, Kate Hudson agreed to star in a movie called Raising Helen, about a rising professional who suddenly inherits her sister's three children, when her sister dies. Today, it was announced that Lori Loughlin would star in a......