You remember the feeling: sitting in a darkened theatre and watching a close-up of your favourite actress slicing into that juicy red tomato or searing steak in a skillet, your stomach growling and your saliva glands working overtime.
Films have flirted with food ever since the dawn of the cinema. Who can forget Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman, with its exhilarating display of culinary skill by a semi-retired masterchef played by Sihung Lung? Or Ratatouille, with its riveting finale, when the town’s harshest critic takes a bite of Remy the rat’s dish?