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Cooking History

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If the tag line is “6 wars, 10 recipes, 60 361 024 dead”, you know that Cooking History is not a history of cooking. It is history cooked. Slovak director Peter Kerekes made a documentary film about army cooks, starting from cook who baked bread for Wermacht, the French counterpart, another French cook, who prepared food during French Algerian conflict, all the way to the recent Balkan civil war – he interviewed Croatian cook, dressed in a uniform, who adamantly said that he would never cook again with Serbs, whereby two plump middle aged hotel cooks from Serbia, who by chance started to work for the Army in 1990, say “Why not?” to the same question.

Film was shown on Sarajevo Film Festival. I got to know about it via Croatian broadsheet Jutarnji list.

Tags: cooking history, documentary, war

Permalink | Comments (2) | August 23, 2009

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