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Ratatouille's Remy the rat named best movie chef

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To celebrate the US release of Julie and Julia tomorrow, rental giant Blockbuster has quizzed American film fans on their food favourites. The comedy/drama follows the year-long attempt of frustrated office temp Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to cook all 524 recipes in the cooking bible Mastering the Art of French Cooking by famed celebrity chef Julia Childs (Meryl Streep) and is already prompting film fans to head into the kitchen and whip up something tasty. So what other onscreen culinary creators do American film fans rate according to the survey? Only one with four legs, a tail and lots of fur. Yes, Remy the rat from Disney-Pixar’s 2007 animation Ratatouille scored nearly half the vote with a whopping 45 percent. Click over to find out which movie chefs were rated as worse than a rodent.

Second on the poll was Catherine Zeta-Jones’s perfectionist chef Kate Armstrong in 2007 romantic drama No Reservations with 20 percent, while third place went to John Clansky (Adam Sandler) in 2004’s oddly-titled culture clash drama/ comedy Spanglish with 17 percent. Filling out the top five were less high profile films such as Danish Oscar-winner Babette’s Feast from 1988, the titular Babette (Stéphane Audran) earning 6 percent and 2000’s romantic comedy Woman on Top, in which Penélope Cruz’s Isabella turns to cooking when motion sickness cramps her life with 4 percent.

“Movies have always stimulated the senses, particular sight and hearing, but through films like Julie & Julia, they also inspire our imagination for creating and savouring the flavours of food,” says Mike Mandzia, the director for film product at Blockbuster Inc. “The release of this movie starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams reminds us that there is a smorgasbord of films about food that you can dig into.”

And yet the runaway favourite food to eat while watching a movie was, unsurprisingly, found to be popcorn in the survey, the snack scoring 44 percent of the vote streaking ahead of rivals pizza (17 percent), chips and dip (13 percent), ice cream (also 13 percent) and chocolate/ sweets (11 percent). Maybe Julie and Julia might help improve our imagination for movie munchies…

[via Earth Times]

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