Saturday, September 4, 2021

I Have These Indian Dishes on My Mind (for Reasons)

I have a problem with the way food is portrayed in my shows.
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I have a problem with the way food is portrayed in my shows.
 
Take the peach pie in the Netflix series, "The Chair." It's a little joke on T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." An admiring student leaves a peach pie on a professor's doorstep after they recite lines from the poem to each other: "Do I dare to eat a peach?" (This is the sad way English majors flirt). He then dumps the pie off at a faculty reception. And we never get to watch anyone eat it.
 
Exasperating! How dare they flaunt that pie in front of us and deny us the vicarious pleasure of cutting into the cinnamon sugar-topped crust, tangy-sweet peach slices slipping out. I wanted to burst through the fourth wall and grab that pie, yelling, "If you're not eating that, I will!"
 
Same with that first episode of "Only Murders in the Building." Steve Martin's character repetitively cooks perfect little omelettes with red and yellow bell peppers only to toss his creations in the trash. Madness. Why? I went to bed craving an omelette, thanks to him.
 
And don't even get me started on all the gabagool (capicola) Tony Soprano tries to eat just before yelling at someone. All of the slow-mo smoothies on "Nine Perfect Strangers," pre-microdosing, of course (wink). And everything Nirmala cooks in "Never Have I Ever." When are the Vishwakumars inviting me over for dinner, I ask you?
 
I know these foods are just props. For all I know, that pie box from "The Chair" was completely empty. But in my imagination these foods are vividly real, maybe even more real than the characters themselves. But what about you? What snacks and delicacies flitting across your screen linger in your imagination, long after the light fades?
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