My movie of the week is The Hundred-Foot Journey. This is so delightful! Calling all foodies and anybody wanting a great date night movie! You will love this! It involves an Indian family that moves to France after losing their home, business, and mother to a fire, in India. After they move to France, they start a new business, a restaurant. Despite the naysayers saying that an Indian cuisine restaurant won’t thrive in France, the business does, with the dad’s ingenious marketing.

One of the sons in the family has a gift for cooking. So…the competitor across the street, 100 feet away, the owner of a French cuisine restaurant, takes an interest in the son’s gift. Her restaurant already has one Michelin star. You’ll have to watch the movie to see how that all plays out.

I loved how this movie was clean, that it had gorgeous cinematography, and that not one, but two romances, emerge. The women’s dresses are so adorable too. I also love that it involves food!

It made me curious about learning more about what makes food great enough to garner a Michelin rating for a restaurant. It also makes you think about neighborliness, kindness, and overcoming racism. With a family theme, it also sparks questions about “What does it mean to be a family?” and “What makes a home?” To top it all off, the son with the cooking gift is so good looking! “Easy on the eyes,” as my sister’s mother-in-law likes to say. His name is Manish Dayal. Watching him took me down memory lane a bit as he looks a lot like one of my husband’s BYU roommates when we were dating. The Indian food featured further spurred the memory lane stroll as when my first grandchild was born, I played granny nanny and cook. While visiting my new grandbaby, and my daughter and son-in-law to do that, they took me to a wonderful Indian cuisine restaurant in Boise. Wow, what a treat! I love Indian cuisine! It’s probably my favorite! Given my love for pizza, that’s saying a lot!!!

With this movie, I finally landed on a date night flick that wasn’t cheesy. When it was over, my husband wasn’t rolling his eyes, thinking the acting was bad and lines were predictable and mediocre. Being produced by Stephen Spielberg and Oprah, the movie of course has got to be fantabulous! I know you will enjoy it! It’s based on the book by Richard Morais, of the same title, so now I want to read it. I also get get a book I found at my local public library when I lived in AZ about cooking and pore over it again, to learn the building blocks of great cooking. According to the author, Samin Nasrat, the four basics of gourmet cooking are salt, fat, acid, and heat. Ahh, so many books so little time. What a great problem to have!

The movie makes me wonder, what hundred-foot journey is waiting for me to take?

P.S. If you’d like to get a digital copy of Salt Fat Acid Heat, you can get it in scribd.com! Go here to learn more about scribd. Scribd has it in text format as well as audiobook. Hooray!