Bitter Harvest (Movie) - Chef Revenge Story
Celebrity chef Mario Batali has a bit part in the new indie film Bitter Feast, about a snarky, influential food blogger who gets kidnapped by a chef who gets fired after a scathing review described his food as "vomitious." (Batali plays the restaurant owner who cans the chef, informing him that he's being replaced with a sous chef from Marlow & Sons.) So the chef, played by James Le Gros (AKA Mr. Sensitive Ponytail Man in Singles), flips out and locks the blogger in his basement, forcing him to perform "a series of deceptively simple food challenges—from preparing a perfect egg over easy, to grilling a steak precisely medium rare—punishing him sadistically for anything less than total perfection."
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By MattInNJ
on Jun 30, 2010 06:15 AM
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The name is Bitter Feast, not Harvest. Batali was on Jimmy Fallon last night, promoting the DVD release of this film. They showed a clip with what was probably most, or all, of his appearance - he'd commented about how nervous he was even though he only had a few lines. I have no desire to watch a torture-porn movie but have to credit him for a convincingly natural delivery in this part.
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Fine food mixed with torture......not my cup of tea!!!!
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I actually like the idea, but the trailer looks Terrible.
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It is playing on SHO2 now and Batali wasn't bad. He portrayed the callous corporate type.
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It's avail thru Netflix. Watched it and had nasty food dreams for two days.
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