Let's Eat! Food and Film collection is now streaming on MUBI globally.
Former New York Times columnist and bestselling cookbook writer Alison Roman (Something from Nothing: A Cookbook, 2025) talks with Rico about the tropes of fictional film chefs, and how the dreamy Cannes-winner The Taste of Things (2023) quietly roasts them on a spit.
Just in time for holiday eat-a-thons, the award-winning MUBI Podcast is back and celebrating its tenth season with a four-course serving of stories about food on film. Titled “A Feast For The Eyes,” the season digs into the ways filmmakers use food to provoke hunger, thought, nausea, political action...and sometimes all the above.
Joining host Rico Gagliano is a sampler platter of luminaries from the film and culinary world, including directors Brad Bird (Ratatouille, 2007), Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, 2001), and David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi, 2011), former New York Times food writer Alison Roman, and more. Gluttons for great cinema stories can start chowing down on episodes weekly, starting Thanksgiving Day.
Listen to episode two below or wherever you get your podcasts: