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Food Network goes to Hollywood with Queen Latifah

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Just in time for the Golden Globes, the Food Network aired a special on their work behind the scenes of Queen Latifah's movie, Last Holiday. The special, creatively entitled Food Network Goes to Hollywood, was a fun behind-the-scenes expose of how food is styled for the silver screen.

In Last Holiday (which, Cinematical tells us, receives raves from all the critics), Queen Latifah plays a housewares saleswoman with a heart of gold and a love for Emeril, whose dishes she cooks up for the kid next door. But the plot's not so important here: we care more about how many chickens they had to be purchased so the Queen could make Chicken Tchoupitoulas along with Emeril (on TV in her kitchen). They never actually said, but it was clearly dozens. We care that the actors usually don't get to eat the food in restaurants scenes, but in this movie? They did, and ate cassoulet and roasted quail with brioche and chorizo stuffing and spiced lamb shanks with blood orange relish. Oh my.

The funniest part of the whole show, though, was one of the chef consultants explaining that, because Queen Latifah's character ate Lean Cuisines for dinner, she was making a red wine sauce to go over the frozen entree: "so it will taste better for Queen Latifah." That's so sweet.

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Leona

3-17-2006 @3:12PM Leona said... I like the movie Last Holiday. Queen Latifah was watching Emeril cooking and she was mimicing what Emeril did on the Food Network and she got everything right. I was amazed. The movie deserves a 5 star rating for great preformance. The food network did a good job showing Queen Latifah how to do all those dishes that Emeril Lagasse did on Emeril Live. Emeril Lagasse was on the show Last Holiday and he was so great that he took my breath away.
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jean harris

1-26-2006 @12:25AM jean harris said... please send the recipes from emeril's food of love show with queen latifah esp. the chicken tchoupitoulas thank you
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jean harris

1-26-2006 @12:26AM jean harris said... please send the recipes from emeril's food of love show with queen latifah esp. the chicken tchoupitoulas thank you
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