Food at Cinema at the FOCUS Forum.

26 Nov 2025

The Film & Screen Media Department recently hosted a unique culinary event with a screening of Trần Anh Hùng’s 2023 romantic drama The Taste of Things, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel. 

Attendees were treated to prepared dishes to eat alongside the film’s characters in real time.  The menu for the evening, prepared by FOCUS’s own gourmet Joe Huber included the following:

• Quiche au Fromage de Gruyere (Cheese Quiche similar to a Quiche Lorraine, but vegetarian).
• Soupe Au Pistou (Vegetable Soup with a pesto) served with bread.
• Baked Alaska.

The screening was followed by a lecture from Dr Cynthia Baron (from Bowling Green State University and co-author of Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation) on current trends in academia surrounding the intersections of food and cinema.