"BonAppetitMagazine" news and stories

• Bon Appétit, Condé Nast's second-largest-circulation magazine, has moved to New York -- and is taking on stylish GQ editor Adam Rapaport as editor-in-chief.
• San Francisco won the World Series; now local chocolatier Tcho is looking to win over chefs. (Valrhona, watch your back.)
• Peels, a part-prep, part-punk restaurant downtown, offers fabulous appetizers -- but "the entrees are a mess."
• It's nearly winter, and thoughts turn to sunny Provence, with its deep, "brooding" Bandol red.

Getting together for dinner and a movie can be one of the most prosaic (Domino's and Blockbuster) of gatherings. But it can become something significantly more special if the food and the visuals connect.

When I was a broke, just-outta-high school teen, my roommates and I would host Godfather parties, for which we'd make a lot of pasta, get some jugs of cheap wine and follow the rule of shouting "Godfather!" then clinking and drinking every time someone got whacked.

There was a "cases of champagne and little black dresses" Breakfast at Tiffany's birthday party, but the master of the art was my great friend Mr. Diva, who threw annual, movie-themed award show parties, paying homage to Picnic (fried chicken) or Blue Velvet (cherry pie and PBR).