One of the my favorite TV momemts would have to be that Seinfeld episode ("The Fatigues") where Frank Costanza cooks for the first time since the Korean war.

New scene.
Frank and Estelle are in their kitchen.

Estelle: Here's your omelet.

Frank: It's dry.

Estelle: That's the way I always make it.

Frank: Well it sucks.

Estelle: What did you say?

Frank: Your meatloaf is mushy, your salmon croquettes are oily and your
eggplant parmesan is a disgrace to this house!

Estelle: Well that's too bad, because I'm the only one who cooks around here!

Frank: Not any more! Gimme that spatula! I'm back, baby!

Moviewise, I like the end of Mostly Martha where she critiques her psychiatrist's cake since she does not believe that he made her exact recipe. That movie's been mentioned on here before as a good foodie film.

Also, another good scene in Lord of the Rings TTT (might have been in the extended edition only) was where Sam disgusts Gollum by making rabbit stew from a nice fresh kill that Gollum would prefer raw. Sam then tries to explain to Gollum what potatoes are, and finally gives up. "Poe-tay-toes!"

I had almost forgotten about this quote, but I decided to re-read this book again and stumbled across it and thought it was appropriate for this thread.

"Pick out some stories with something to eat in them. I like that one a whole lot about them German kids going out in the forest and coming to this house made out of all different kinds of candy and the witch. I like a story with something to eat in it."

"I'll look for one," said Mick.

"But I'm getting kinda tired of candy," Bubber said. "See if you can't bring me a story with something like a barbecue sandwich in it."

- Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

"For food, I'd come out of a coma."--Goldie Hawn in "Butterflies Are Free"

How could I forget the best line from Point Break:

I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino!

Hey, Mikey, come over here, kid, learn something -- you might have to cook for 20 guys some day."

"You see, you start out with a little bit of oil,"
"Then you fry some garlic. Then you throw in some tomatoes, and tomato paste, you fry it and make sure it doesn't stick, you get it to a boil, you shove in all your sausages and your meatballs and a little bit of wine, and a little bit of sugar -- that's the trick!"

This is not only a quote, it's a recipe!
Godfather I
Clemenza to Michael

another good one is from Bull Durham
upon finding an apple in bed where Kevin Costner used to be the night before...
Susan Sarandon says

..as least the bastard left me breakfast!

irisarbor wrote:"You see, you start out with a little bit of oil,"
"Then you fry some garlic...

Totally made me remember this one. Who doesn't picture that shot of him with the razor blade, and the garlic clove when they remember this line:

"He cut the garlic so thin, that it would dissolve in just a little bit of oil. It was a very good system."

If you have it on the tip of your tongue, but can't remember....

Goodfellas.

I don't know how exact the movie versions are in picking up the original Dickens, but I'm pretty sure the Alistair Sims version of a Christmas Carol (1951) comes pretty close:

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

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True love is the greatest thing in the world - except for for a nice MLT: mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, when the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato is ripe... they're so perky. I love that.

Is it a movie quote or a song lyric... maybe a little bit of both... but I couldn't help think of the famous last line of the Grinch song:
You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool
sandwich...
With arsenic sauce!