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Try This Ida Lupino Noir Bar Cocktail
“Noir City-Face the Music” is in full swing at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland as the launch of its eight city tour.
Eddie Muller—host of TCM’s Noir Alley, one of the world’s leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur—takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the “dark city” of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore. Continue reading
SPICE UP YOUR FOOD:Recipes for Strawberry and Tomato Season — and more
Recipes by Erica Perez and John Beaver unless otherwise noted.
Curated and adapted by Gary Meyer
(updated August 30, 2025)
Spices from the Oaktown Spice Shop can take a very good dish to new levels.
C.J. Hirschfield wrote about Oaktown as they have adapted during the pandemic to provide their goods to home chefs around the world. EatDrinkFilms has chosen some recipes and comments from their website (plus one of our own) to get you started.
There is a full meal starting with Bloody Mary cocktails, a zucchini salad, strawberry spaghetti, and chewy molasses cookies for dessert; plus great popcorn idea to eat while watching an after-dinner movie.
EATING and DRINKING FILMS & MORE From THE SEATTLE FILM FESTIVAL
By Vince Keenan
The 51st Seattle International Film Festival drew to a close on May 25, with a selection of entries available via streaming through June 1. At this year’s fest, I paid particular attention to nonfiction titles spotlighting the troika of subjects that matter most to EatDrinkFilms readers. Let’s begin with a libation.
Wine has its sommeliers, beer its cicerones. As the craft cocktail revolution took hold in the aughts, six authorities on spirits launched a program that would provide similar certification to bartenders. Continue reading
CHAPLIN’S CINEMATIC MEALS
Curated by Gary Meyer (May 16, 2025)
As a child in London Charles Chaplin had a life of poverty and hardship. He was sent to a workhouse twice before he was nine years old. He got little to eat and there is speculation that is why there are so many food scenes in his movies.
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Eddie Muller’s NOIR BAR Cocktail Recipes for The Reckless Moment and Phantom Lady
“Eddie Muller—host of TCM’s Noir Alley, one of the world’s leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur—takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the “dark city” of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore.”
Photo courtesy of Tim Millard and “A Sip of Noir” podcast interviewing Eddie Muller.
1933 Celebrity Cocktail Book Party
By Jenny Hammerton
Join me on Instagram (@silverscreensuppers) on Friday the 19th of July 2024 for an online cocktail party to celebrate the launch of my new thing! 7pm BST is 2pm EST/ 11am PDT.
It is a gorgeous limited edition reprint of a rare 1933 booklet containing recipes submitted for a celebrity cocktail competition!
CULINARY FILM FARE AT SEATTLE’S 50TH FEST
By Vince Keenan
(May 22, 2024)
(Editor’s note: As people increase their frequency of going out to entertainment, most events that went virtual during Covid have returned to in-person presentations, including film festivals. The Seattle International Film Festival has programmed a number of their in-person selections for streaming through May 27 so that people not in the Seattle area can discover them. Film lover and mixologist Vince Keenan writes about four Eat & Drink Films he saw at the festival.)
The Seattle International Film Festival has always offered a robust selection of movies about food and drink, “Culinary Cinema” being one of its staple programs. It continues the tradition in its fiftieth anniversary season. Several of the relevant titles are programmed in categories related to location—the Pacific Northwest and the Iberian Peninsula—which is only fitting, as the films all touch on and expand the concept of terroir. Continue reading
The Pleasures of an Omakase Movie
By Gaetano Kazuo Maida
“It’s never finished. It’s always in movement.”—Michel Troisgros 
Okay, so let’s say you’re like me and you don’t customarily (like, never!) spend $1000 for lunch for two, and it happens that you don’t live in France, and yet you have good taste in food, you know what it is to enjoy a fine wine occasionally, you’re curious about the synergies between sustainable agriculture and restaurants, and at the moment are feeling a bit peckish. Well, the universe is generous, and Menu Plaisirs Les Troisgros offers a reasonable facsimile of enjoying one of the world’s top haute cuisine institutions from the comfort of your own seat or couch for four hours, about the duration of a really nice long lunch, albeit without the tasting bit. Continue reading
Setting the Noir Bar – Eddie Muller’s Cocktail Recipes
(January 18, 2024)
A year ago, in advance of the release of Eddie Muller’s new book of Film Noir inspired cocktails, we published a sneak preview of two recipes.
As Noir City 21 plays January 19-28 at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, California —and is coming to cities across the country, EatDrinkFilms is pleased to offer a few more goodies to quench your thirst for a great movie and an inspired drink.
COOKING WITH JOAN CRAWFORD
By Jenny Hammerton
(October 8, 2023)
Are you ready to sprinkle some stardust around your kitchen?
From the earliest days of Hollywood, movie stars shared their favourite dishes with fan magazines, syndicated newspapers and cookbook compilers. I’ve been collecting these film star recipes for around 25 years, and my stash now numbers over 8,000. I’m gradually cooking my way through them. Some of the results are wonderful, some are inedible, but I always get the feeling that the glamour of tinsel town is rubbing off on me when I am elbow-deep in singing cowboy chilli or mashing up some glamour girl guacamole. Continue reading