Food has a starring role in this film

The first time director Scott Hicks walked into the busy kitchen of Fiamma Osteria in New York to do research for "No Reservations," he was overwhelmed. "There were huge boiling pots; there were fires; there was heat. And the noise level . . . I thought, 'There's so much going on. This is total chaos!' " he says. (Full article: 846 words)

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