Beirut: Lebanese Radish Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Beirut in 1982, once exotic and sophisticated, is now a chaotic rubble. But no more so than its prodigal son, fallen from diplomatic grace, who returns to rescue an old friend.
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Often been surprised by a movie after what a film critic said about it? Ever felt cheated out of big bucks on the recommendations of a punk 24-year-old? Or really loved the ones they panned? Well, you no longer need to feel out of step with the current movie review band. Different Drummer is for you. Read more about our take on the film world. And get ready to relive your favorite movies with the recipes that follow each review. You can find many other great recipes in Different Drummer’s own Appetite for Murder: A Mystery Lover’s Cookbook.
The Help: Classic Southern Fried Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Behind the well-manicured lawns, the polished silver, and the delicate china is an invisible wall. And it’s one the maids in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, know not to cross. While the more violent street confrontations of the civil rights movement are played out on the street, the small private battles inside everyday kitchens are just as intense.
Read MoreAn Affair to Remember: Pink Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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In what is arguably the most romantic film ever made, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr exchange witty and self-effacing banter on the long way to love, their airy chitchat hiding two vulnerable hearts.
Read MoreFather Brown: Strawberry Scone Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Father Brown is more concerned with saving souls than solving mysteries, but he’s pretty darn good at each. The BBC series, like his reassuring presence, is as comforting as a cup of tea and a warm fireside, even if an alarming number of corpses litter the idyllic English countryside.
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Breaking Away: Melt in Your Mouth Meatball Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Indiana’s version of Dazed and Confused. But it is also very Greek, too, since it asks the question, “Who Am I?” Except we are not talking about kings and queens, but four Bloomington, Indiana, townies trying to find their way in life the year after high school.
Read MoreNotting Hill: Hugh Grant’s Apricot Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Romantic comedies, or films in general, don’t get much better than this! Thoroughly delightful, this 1999 British film gets better with each viewing. Part of that is the charm of Hugh Grant at his zenith here, the loveliness of a radiant Julia Roberts, and a script that is witty and insightful.
A Million Miles Away: Marvelous Michoacán Souped Up Fruit Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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More please, Amazon. Movies that blast off fueled by the human spirit alone, discarding nihilism like booster rockets ejected into space. While shedding victimhood like the small planet it leaves behind.
Read MoreThe Highwaymen: Hoover Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They finally get the story straight and the lawmen – not the thuggish criminals – are the real heroes.
Read MoreThe Brokenwood Mysteries: Mrs. Marlowe’s Secret Cheese Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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New Zealand’s version of Midsomer Murders , but a lot more fun. Replace the rather stuffy and happily married chief inspectors of that English series with Detective Mike Shepherd, who has an indeterminate number of ex wives and a passion for muscle cars and country music, New Zealand style.
Read MoreVienna Blood: Freud’s Favorite Dessert Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Season 4 does not disappoint. It is even more complex and far reaching than the previous series. Instead of self-contained episodes, we have a continuous string of events that test the characters as never before.
Read MoreIt Happened One Night : Carrot Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Granddaddy of all rom-coms is still a delight, even if it is 90 years old! And it was the first film to sweep the Oscars, bringing home Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture, and Best Writing [Only others are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and Silence of the Lambs 1991)]
Read MoreRestless: Tacos: New Mexican Style 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Secrets. We all Have them. Some we hide them from our parents. But a parent might hide secrets, too. And this one’s a doozy.
Read MoreMonsieur Spade : Croque Monsieur (French Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich) 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Sam Sade living out his golden years in the South of France. Who would have thunk it? And it’s surprisingly, good, too.
Read MoreHillbilly Elegy: Hillbilly Chicken Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Who am I? That question reverberates throughout great literature, including Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye. And it just what JD Vance is asking in Hillbilly Elegy.
Read MoreThe Good Liar: Polish Hunter’s Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s witty and sophisticated, with light touches that lure us in. But’s its more like tragedy’s comic relief, which these Shakespearean trained leads wield with terrible ferocity when we least expect it.
Read MoreUnknown: Berlin Scalloped Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s a dizzy cocktail of confusion, panic, and paranoia reminiscent of the grand master, Alfred Hitchcock. In Berlin to attend a conference, Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car crash to find his wife does not recognize him, and another man has claimed his identity.
Read MoreThe Naked Jungle: South American Hot Chocolate 🥁🥁 🥁 1/2
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Which is worse? Charlton Heston as the arrogant and moody South American plantation owner, or the marabunda, the plague of army ants moving relentlessly toward him, devouring everything in their path.
Read MoreThe Last Bus: Ukrainian Pierogi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This is a road trip, but don’t expect Easy Rider, Smokey and the Bandit, The Blues Brothers, Little Miss Sunshine, or Thelma and Louise.
Read MoreLincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln Sugar Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steven Spielberg again reminds us that one purpose of great drama is to inspire as well as delight. His film does both.
Read MoreThe Boys in the Boat: Potato Bacon Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who cares if you’ve never rowed in your life. It’s the middle of the Great Depression and you’re living in a rusted-out jalopy eating a can of beans. Making the Washington State rowing team may be the only way to get a roof over your head and a steady paycheck.
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