Monthly Archives: February 2015

Breakfast time at Spence and Kate’s – Woman of the Year (1942)

February 22, 2015 · by · in Coffee, George Stevens, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Waffles · Leave a comment

Making breakfast has never looked so hard as it does at the end of Woman of the Year (1942) when steely and independent Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) tries to prepare coffee and waffles for her estranged husband, Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy). Tess is a cultured and successful political correspondent – so successful she wins the […]

Heartburn (1986)

February 13, 2015 · by · in Heartburn, Jack Nicholson, Key lime pie, Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, salted almonds, Uncategorized, Vinaigrette · Leave a comment

Heartburn is chock full of food. Its heroine, Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep) is a cookery book writer and Nora Ephron’s 1983 novel (which she adapted for Mike Nichols’ screen version) is full of asides in which Rachel discourses on the life-affirming qualities of potatoes, or offers up recipes for cheesecake, vinaigrette, bacon hash and peach […]