Let's Eat! Food and Film collection is now streaming on MUBI globally.
Two critically acclaimed, Cannes prizewinning directors, Mira Nair and Ritesh Batra, made very different hit films about very different sides of India's fabled food delivery system. Batra tells Rico about the romance of dabbawallas, while Nair remembers the mean streets of Mumbai's chaiwallas (and what she serves her son Zohran Mamdani at home).
Just in time for holiday eat-a-thons, the award-winning MUBI Podcast is back and celebrating its tenth season with a four-course serving of stories about food on film. Titled “A Feast For The Eyes,” the season digs into the ways filmmakers use food to provoke hunger, thought, nausea, political action...and sometimes all the above.
Joining host Rico Gagliano is a sampler platter of luminaries from the film and culinary world, including directors Brad Bird (Ratatouille, 2007), and David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi, 2011), former New York Times food writer Alison Roman, and more.
Listen to episode four below or wherever you get your podcasts.