I was battling between making a meal between two movies, one was Eddies Million Dollar Cook Off, the first movie that came into my mind when we had this assignment because its a movie I was partically inspired when I was younger to cook, but I had to do a movie that I haven't watched and my friends said Eat Pray Love was a good movie, so I decided to watch it.
Eat Pray Love, is a movie about a woman named Liz Gilbert who is newly divorced and her dream of having a wonderful life wasn’t going as expected. She decided to go on a cultural journey around the world by enjoying eating in Italy , praying in India and fell in love in Indonesia
Gilbert first went to Italy Italy India Bali , Indonesia Bali , she lives and learns with Ketut. Gilbert then met a Brazilian man named Felipe, where she learns he’s also divorced. They then started to spend some time together where Felipe decided to surprise her for her birthday that’s coming up. He planned for the both of them to stay on a nearby island, where he’s aware they are from different places but to try to make it work on this new place. She then runs away avoiding to accept that she’s in love with him, until she spent time with Ketut and had a talk with him where Ketut tells her that love and life sometimes involves recognizing there doesn’t need to be that balance. She then tries to find Felipe where he happened to be by the dock and then they sailed away into the Balinese sunset.
The main message of the movie was that Elizabeth Elizabeth was in India , I felt like it was long and it felt dull for me, but I liked when she was in Italy and Indonesia Italy because she got to try a lot of food and I also liked when she was in Indonesia
The overall inspiration I took from this movie was mainly when she was in Italy Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth was in India
Movie Review (NY Times):
Globe-Trotting and Soul-Searching
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: August 12, 2010
The double standard in Hollywood may be stronger than ever. Men are free to pursue all kinds of adventures, while women are expected to pursue men. In a typical big-studio romantic comedy the heroine’s professional ambition may not always be an insurmountable obstacle to matrimony, but her true fulfillment — not just her presumed happiness but also the completion of her identity — will come only at the altar.
This paradigm is, of course, much older than the movies, but it can be refreshing, now and then, to see something different in the multiplex: a movie that takes seriously (or for that matter has fun with) a woman’s autonomy, her creativity, her desire for something other than a mate.
The scarcity of such stories helps explain the appeal of movies like the two “Sex and the City” features, “Julie & Julia,” “The Blind Side” and now “Eat Pray Love,” a sumptuous and leisurely adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir of post-divorce globe-trotting. Directed by Ryan Murphy, who wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Salt, the film offers an easygoing and generous blend of wish fulfillment, vicarious luxury, wry humor and spiritual uplift, with a star, Julia Roberts, who elicits both envy and empathy.
Playing a woman whose natural self-confidence is dented by disappointment and threatened by remorse, Ms. Roberts dims her glamour without snuffing it out altogether, as she tried to do in Mike Nichols’s unfortunate “Closer.” Her Liz Gilbert can be radiant and witty, and rarely doubts her essential attractiveness, but she also suffers uncertainty, ambivalence and real anguish. The end of her marriage — to a kind, weak-willed oddball played by Billy Crudup — is wrenching before it has a chance to be fully liberating. And her rebound relationship, with a soulful younger actor (James Franco), only exacerbates Liz’s sense that she is drifting away from herself.
This may strike you as an abstract problem, and one that depends, for both its articulation and its proposed solution, on a high degree of material security and social entitlement. So many people in this world confront much graver threats to their well-being: violence, poverty, oppression. This woman has nothing but good luck! True enough, but the kind of class consciousness that would blame Liz for feeling bad about her life and then taking a year abroad to cure what ails her strikes me as a bit disingenuous — a way of trivializing her trouble on the grounds of gender without having to come out and say so.
What “Eat Pray Love” has — what the superficial “Sex and the City 2” notably lacked — is a sense of authenticity. Whether you decide to like Liz, and whether you approve of her choices and the expectations she has set for herself, it is hard not to be impressed by her honesty. The same can be said for Ms. Gilbert (to distinguish between the author and narrator of the book and the character she becomes when impersonated by Ms. Roberts). And the screenwriters, copiously sprinkling the author’s supple, genial prose into dialogue and voice-over, maintain a clear sense of her major theme. As the movie meanders through beautiful locations, grazing on scenery, flowers and food, it keeps circling back to the essential tension between Liz’s longing for independence and her desire to be loved.
Reflecting on her earlier life, she observes that for most of it she was either with a man or in the process of leaving one, and so in the first stages of her journey she experiments with singleness. Not with solitude, exactly, since Liz is naturally gregarious and acquires friends easily. Back home in New York she has Delia (Viola Davis), and in Rome a Swedish woman named Sofi (Tuva Novotny) introduces her to an amicable group of Italians, including a fellow whose last name is Spaghetti (Giuseppe Gandini). While he is seen mainly in group shots, his namesake food is filmed in loving close-ups.
In keeping with the theme of self-examination, Liz’s trip is confined to countries that begin with the letter “I.” From the trattorias and ruins of Italy, to an ashram in India, and then to Indonesia. At the ashram she meets a cantankerous Texan named Richard (Richard Jenkins) whose nickname for her is Groceries and whom she accuses of “speaking in bumper stickers.” This is a stone tossed from inside a glass house, given the aphoristic, wisdom-mongering tone of much of “Eat Pray Love,” but it is also a welcome wink of self-awareness, indicative of the good humor that redeems some of the film’s (and the book’s) muzzy therapeutic moments. The three themes enumerated in the title are explored with a cheerful tact unlikely to trouble any tastes or sensibilities. The food is not overly spicy or exotic — spaghetti in Rome, pizza in Naples; the religion not uncomfortably, you know, religious; and the sex discreet almost to the point of invisibility. In Bali Liz apprentices herself to an elderly shaman (the irrepressible scene stealer Hadi Subiyanto) and befriends a healer named Wayan (Christine Hakim). She also falls for Felipe, a divorced Brazilian expatriate, played with insouciant, unshaven charm by Javier Bardem.
Will her feelings for Felipe cause her to abandon the self-sufficiency that had been the point of her quest? And because “Eat Pray Love” builds its climax around this question, does that mean, in the end, that it reverts to the man-centric romantic-comedy formula? Yes and no. Mr. Murphy, whose television work (“Nip/Tuck” and “Glee,” most notably) can be sharp-edged even to the point of meanness, is much softer here, and “Eat Pray Love” can serve as a reminder that television is, at the moment, a braver and more radical medium than the movies.
“Eat Pray Love” is unlikely to change anybody’s life or even to provoke emotions anywhere near as intense as those experienced, early and late, by its intrepid heroine. Its span may be global, but its scope is modest, and it accepts a certain superficiality as the price of useful insight. Watch. Smile. Go home and dream of Brazilians in Bali.
“Eat Pray Love” is rated PG-13. A lot of grown-up feelings and situations, but no blood or skin, and just a bit of decorous swearing.
Salad
Appetizer: I decided to make a salad because in the movie Elizabeth was out for dinner with a group a friends and I saw a bowl of salad on the table. The salad is something most people have as an appetizer when they go out to eat. I knew what the basic ingredients were going to be when I was making the salad, which was ofcourse lettus, cheese and croutons, but I decided to add some of my own ingredients to make it more heathier and tastier.
Ingredients:
1 head romaine_lettuce
2 cups (500 mL) croutons
1/4 cup (50 mL) grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup of mini carrots chopped
Dressing:
Pasta
Roti
Ingredients:
1 tbsp (15 mL) vinegar
2 tsp (10 mL) Dijon_mustard
2 tsp (10 mL) anchovy_paste
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp (2 mL) each salt and pepper
1/2 tsp (2 mL) Worcestershire_sauce
3 tbsp (50 mL) light mayonnaise
Preparation:
1. Dressing: In bowl, whisk together oil, cheese, vinegar, mustard, anchovy paste, garlic, salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Whisk in mayonnaise until smooth.(Make-ahead: Cover and refrigerate for up to 1 day.)
2. Tear lettuce into bite-size pieces to make about 20 cups (5 L); place in large bowl.
Add dressing, croutons and cheese; toss to combine.
Pasta
Main Dish: I decided to make the pasta because in the movie she went to a lot of resutrants in Italty and she tried the pasta at one resutrant. Pasta is well known to everyone and everyone had tried it atleast once in their life time. Before I looked up ingredients for the pasta, I knew what the basic ingredients would be for pasta, which were pasta, tomatoe sauce, oil and cheese.
Ingredients:
· 1 pound pasta
· 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
· 1/2 cup olive oil
· 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or to taste
· salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
· 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
· 1 cup finely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Directions:
1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 12 minutes. Drain and transfer to a pasta bowl.
2. Combine garlic and olive oil in a cold skillet. Cook over medium heat to slowly toast garlic, about 10 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low when olive oil begins to bubble. Cook and stir until garlic is golden brown, about another 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
3.Stir red pepper flakes, black pepper, and salt into the pasta. Pour in olive oil and garlic,
and sprinkle on Italian parsley and half of the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese; stir until combined.
and sprinkle on Italian parsley and half of the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese; stir until combined.
4. Serve pasta topped with the remaining Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
Roti
Dessert: I decided to make a roti for dessert because in countries like India, roti is a well known food that they eat and when Elizabeth went to India, she had some roti and she seen people make roti, which was interesting. I think cultural people eat roti more because its something that reminds them about their hometown. The basic ingredients for roti would be bread flour and oil, but I had to look up what ever ingredients I was missing to make my roti.
· 2 cups bread flour
· 1 teaspoon salt
· 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
· 2/3 cup water
Directions:
1. In a large bowl, sift together flour and salt. Add oil and mix in with a fork until flour is crumbly.
Mix in water until the dough pulls together. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface
and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes. Cover and set aside for 45 minutes.
Mix in water until the dough pulls together. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface
and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes. Cover and set aside for 45 minutes.
2. Knead dough again until smooth; divide into six equal parts. Form each part into a round.
Roll out each round as thinly as possible; dust with flour to keep from sticking.
Roll out each round as thinly as possible; dust with flour to keep from sticking.
3. Invert a heavy cast iron pan over burner and heat. Spread roti over pan and cook.
Roti will cook in 40 to 50 seconds. Tiny black spots will appear when it is finished.
Fold Roti and serve hot.
Roti will cook in 40 to 50 seconds. Tiny black spots will appear when it is finished.
Fold Roti and serve hot.
2 tbsp (25 mL) grated Parmesan cheese
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