"And the Oscar for
the Best Vegan Dish goes to..."
Back
in 1994 I started serving movie-related dishes on Oscar night. That year we had bread and water for Shawshank Redemption, Le Big Mac for Pulp Fiction, TV dinners for Quiz Show, cake for Four Wedding and a Funeral, and a box of chocolates for Forrest Gump.
Things
have evolved, and now I have a post-Oscar gathering on the Monday following the
telecast so we can talk about the Oscar presentations themselves--any wrong
envelopes?-- as well as the movies that won or should have won.
The
food, too, has evolved. This is what's
on the menu this year:
A peach
for Call Me by Your Name
Mushrooms
, toast we can crunch on to annoy whoever is sitting next to us for Phantom
Thread
Keylime
pie for The Shape of Water
Sandwiches
and lemonade for The Post
Eskimo
Pies instead of Dove Bars for I, Tonya
Froot
Loops for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wafers
for Lady Bird (but maybe flat Chinese fortune cookies instead
of communion wafers).
Booze and
tea for Churchill
Water
for Dunkirk
Milk (and
still more Froot Loops) for Get Out
Pizza and
ice cream for The Florida Project
And
one other thing has evolved--my consciousness of where our food comes from and
what the ramifications of what we eat on animals and the environment.
So
now everything is vegan.
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