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Starting at Thanksgiving and running all the way to the New Year, the holiday season is consistently highlighted by one thing: eating. But before you sit down at your holiday table, take a look at this list of great documentaries about food—some that celebrate what and how we eat, and others that will make you think twice about your relationship with food.
10. The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
Free spirit Midwestern farmer John Peterson struggles to save his farm in the face of the declining agricultural system in America. Friend and director Taggart Siegel effectively uses John’s story to depict the larger picture of the decline of agrarian life and the rise of the community-based, local/organic food movement in the U.S. today.
9. Food Fight (2008)
Chris Taylor’s slick, ambitious documentary uses star-studded testimony by food celebrities like writer Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Wolfgang Puck to tell the story of how food has changed in America, and to tout the growing organic-food movement. A worthy film, it makes effective arguments even if the dazzling array of culinary stars and the wide breadth of information sometimes leaves out the particulars.
8. All in This Tea (2007)
A lifelong obsession with tea takes aficionado David Lee Hoffman on a journey to the tea plantations and factories of China. Celebrated documentarian Les Blank follows him, using his hand-held camera to create an intimate, evocative film about the tastes, scents and, ultimately, people behind the best tea in the world.
7. The Price of Sugar (2007)
This devastating film about the deplorable, oppressive conditions of immigrant Haitian sugar cane workers in the Dominican Republic will make you think twice before sweetening your coffee. Paul Newman narrates the film directed by Bill Haney.
6. Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
This ode to all things garlic is a sumptuous, loving tribute to the smelliest bulb that we eat. The famed Les Blank alternates visceral shots of garlic dishes being made with testimony about its health and culinary virtues from garlic experts in a passionate portrayal of all things pungent.
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Where's Fred Wiseman's movie Meat from 1976? If Upton Sinclair had owned a camera, this is the movie he would have made.
You guys need to have a longer viewpoint.
This film, while a worthy addition to the Wake Up America pantheon of Food films which every American needs to see (incl. King Corn, FRESH, To Market To market to Buy a Fresh Pig, the Meatrix Food, Inc. Cheasapeake Bay Farm Run off on PBS) should almost be entitled "A tribute to Alice Waters", instead of Food Fight.
Watching this film would lead you to believe that Alice waters was the sole author of the food revolution. She and her chef lover indeed made beautiful music together at Chez Panisse, which which greatly influenced The Food Movement by recognizing and featuring farmers on the menu and by demanding that eaters include them the process in the act of eating. This simple idea was in fact a "revolutionary' idea especially at time when Ag policy was tooling up for its biggest push to the industrialization of the food system.
However Food Fight takes her story and makes it THE story of the political struggle. It appears that once again White People are the protagonists, the change makers.
In fact many different political movements of the 60's and 70's are rooted in the distrust of US policy and in consuming medicines and foods manufactured with chemicals. Most notably missing From the FODD FIGHT Story is the Black Nationalist , Afrocentric, conspiratorist-theory consciousness movement which eschewed consuming any goods-- especially food or medicine-- made with American made chemicals.
( see black Consciousness RE the damage done to peoples of African descent by sterilization programmes etc. Many of these folks are in their 50's and 60's now and their 20-35 years old kids grew up with organic, naturopathic sensibilities.
I was very glad to see one of Les Blank's many food films in this line up. I do agree with comment about taking a longer view, though, and including Fred Wiseman's film. But that's the problem with top ten lists: they tend to be in-the-moment topical and otherwise narrowly focused. Another film missing from this list, though it's not obviously about food, is Michael Moore's "Sicko." The price we pay for cheap, industrial food is an expanded range and number of diseases and expensive health care.
Genèse d'un repas (1978)
... aka Origins of a Meal (International: English title)
By Luc Moullet... all the things we are concerned about in our world relating to food were brought up in this simple movie over 30 years ago.
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One of my favorite documentaries about food is Fresh (the movie). It's far more uplifting than Food, Inc., though everyone should see that one too. It basically picks up where Food, Inc. left off, and I felt much more hopeful after watching it. Check it out at freshthemovie.com. (I am in no way affiliated with the film or its production company. I simply love it to pieces :-)
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