Two brothers try to keep their struggling Italian restaurant afloat by preparing one special meal.

Lenny Henry; Meet Britain's finest - and most ill-tempered - chef, Gareth Blackstock, of the prestigious Le Chateau Anglais restaurant. Each meal is a masterpiece. Just don't ask for salt.

Follows one busy night at an Italian restaurant in NYC's TriBeCa neighborhood.

A master chef reconnects with his three headstrong daughters every week over the Sunday dinner table. Chinese dialogue with English subtitles.

Documentary about 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered by some to be the best sushi chef in the world. His tiny sushi-only restaurant, located in a Tokyo subway station, is the first establishment of its type to be honored with the prestigious Michelin 3-star rating.

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Sixteen chefs whip up the most gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions at the competition for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, France's Nobel Prize for pastry, and there is edge-of-the-seat drama as they deliver their fantastical, spun-sugar desserts to the display table. Chefs work under constant scrutiny by master judges, whose critical palates evaluate their elaborate pastries. The inevitable disasters prove both poignant and hilarious. Shelved with nonfiction DVDs in D 641.865 K55

The conscientious keeper of a spice shop must choose between the man she loves and her calling.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart; Master chef Kate Armstrong is a perfectionist who leads a regimented life, while running the kitchen of an exclusive restaurant. She revels in the sense of power and control her career affords. When Kate's sister is killed in an automobile accident, her 9-year old niece Zoe comes to live with Kate. Kate's life is turned completely upside down and she is suddenly forced to split her focus between work and family. Nick Palmer is the newly hired, fun-loving, opera-singing sous chef, whom Kate perceives as a serious rival. She then begins an impassioned struggle to rein in Nick's exuberance and maintain control over her kitchen staff. Even as they clash, Kate is drawn toward Nick, eventually coming to the realization that Nick offers something that she needs both in her restaurant kitchen and her new life with Zoe. Remake of the German film Mostly Martha.

TV Series. After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature steak and kidney pie."--Container.

Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.

Samir is a traditionally trained chef who works as the sous chef in an exclusive restaurant in Manhattan, but when he learns he's been turned down for an expected promotion, he leaves in a huff and isn't asked to return. Samir considers heading for Europe to attend a culinary academy, but his plans quickly change when he learns that his father has suffered a severe heart attack and someone needs to look after the family business, a dingy Indian restaurant in Queens that's fallen on hard times.

Jenna is unhappily married. She squirrels away money and is hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant and her plans are thrown awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with her fellow waitresses, Dawn and Becky. She, also, finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. Life with Earl becomes less tolerable as her pregnancy advances. Her way out of the marriage is less clear and her affair with the doctor is complicated by his marriage.