Healthy Yummies

 

Or is it ‘Home Economists’??

I had a call from Joe Withers, art department for a French film called ‘Ma Pare Du Gateau’.  His opening line was “this is probably the strangest request you’ll have all day” – we were intrigued.

It transpires that the venue they had booked for this particular scene in the movie, Sketch in Central London, were closed being a bank holiday and therefore the kitchen would not be open to provide food for the scene.  So we were asked to provide a selection of dishes for the eight characters to fine dining standard.

Our job also entailed replenishing or re-modelling the dishes after each take.  There were lots of considerations to take on board.  We had to make sure that not only did the food look good on camera, we learnt a few tricks for that!  But also, as the cast would be eating it, we had to make sure that it fell into food and hygiene rules and regs.  The lights were hot and the filming went on all day.

It was a fantastic experience, we loved every minute of it.  A great adrenalin kick!  A completely different ball game and a lot of waiting around but with the strict timings etc it pushed us to a new limit – great.

The menu:

-Beef fillet with celeriac puree, cucumber jelly, jus and mustard cress
-Seared tuna, shallot marmalade, sauted potatoes and bacon lardons, onion foam and petit salad
-Beef fillet, pickled walnuts and horseradish mousse
-Braised blade of beef with nettle risotto and spring onions
-Red wine poached halibut with pearl onions, pancetta, crushed new potatoes and horseradish
-Seared tuna with wasabi cream and samphire salad

 

 

 

 

 

Funny enough the line producer, Caroline Levy had asked us to cater for the film a few weeks before but it hadn’t worked out….. so it was quite educational to have a butchers at the catering provided!

 

 

Needless to say, there was some time for frolicking around the building, we had fun in the ‘pod’ toilet…. not sure what it’s all about but amusing all the same!

 

Tags: Caroline Levy, Ma Pare Du Gateau, Sketch, Vertigo Films

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