Word: eater
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Toward the end of the movie, Remy whips up his specialty for Anton Ego (voiced by Peter O'Toole), a food critic so severe he is known to trembling chefs throughout Paris as the Grim Eater. Ego puts a forkful in his mouth, and in a flash, fond memories--of a loving mother giving him delicious food--play across his face. As Bird describes the moment, "His eyes drift down toward the dish, like, 'Is it this? It is this. I love food again. This is what I was missing.'" A taste of something wonderful can humanize almost any misanthrope...
...Thanks to the genius of ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,’ it took a little bit of work to explain to people that I am neither a cartoon character nor a monkey brain-eater,” Penn explains, laughing.He credits Nair with breaking some of the barriers that had previously kept Indians out of mainstream American cinema.“She was one of my role models growing up and really inspired me to go into filmmaking,” he says...
...become a local-eating pioneer. For 25 years, Gussow has lectured on the environmental (and culinary) disadvantages of relying on a global food supply. Her most oft-quoted statistic is that shipping a strawberry from California to New York requires 435 calories of fossil fuel but provides the eater with only 5 calories of nutrition. In her memoir, Gussow offers this rather poetic meaning of local: "Within a day's leisurely drive of our homes. [This] distance is entirely arbitrary. But then, so was the decision made by others long ago that we ought to have produce from all around...
...colleagues for their constant pursuit of the vanguard. "We're a gang of frauds who work to distract snobs," Santamaria said, before issuing his own manifesto: "The only truth that matters is the product that comes out of the earth, passes through the ovens to the mouth of the eater, and is then defecated...
...course, appropriate - although I must say that while the food provided by the grieving restaurateurs was delicious (especially the oysters), it was on the skimpy side. Apple would have wanted more. He was more gourmand than gourmet, as a journalist as well as an eater, and his antic enthusiasms provided plenty of grist for the eulogists...