Chef Report

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Movie: Ratatouille

Gourmand Rat [Patton Oswalt]

Paris, France: In the animated-adventure, RATATOUILLE, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

Remy finds himself torn between his calling and passion in life or returning forever to his previous existence as a rat. He learns the truth about friendship, family and having no choice but to be who he really is, a rat who wants to be a chef.
Movie: Nacho Libre

Chef: Nacho Libre/Ignacio [Jack Black]
Oaxaca, Mexico: Monastery cook who becomes a wrestler so he can earn money and prepare better meals for the orphans he feeds.

Movie: Last Holiday

Chef: Georgia Byrd [Queen Latifah], Chef Didier [Gerard Depardieu]

New Orleans: A shy cookware salesperson for a retail outlet, with a secret passion for cooking believes she has less than a month to live, treats herself to the European vacation of a lifetime. Gerard Depardieu plays world-famous Chef Didier.

Movie: The Great New Wonderful

Pastry Chef: Emme Keeler [Maggie Gyllenhaal]

New York: A high-end cake designer in New York City. She’ll create a masterpiece for $1,800 at $14 a slice — The Great New Wonderful is the name of her business — and she wants more than anything to topple the reigning Queen of Cake, Safarah Polsky, portrayed by Edie Falco.

Television: The Sopranos

Chef: Artie Bucco [John Ventimiglia]

Artie is a longtime childhood friend of Tony Soprano and they went to elementary school together. He works as the owner and head chef of Nuovo Vesuvio, a local restaurant. He wishes he could be involved in the work that Tony does but he doesn’t have the “image” or the know how. His wife always tries to keep him out of “the business” but the glory he sees in his friends, especially Tony, is a constant temptation.

Television: Three’s Company

Chef: Jack Tripper [John Ritter]

Jack first attended a local technical college for a degree in culinary arts, and held down odd jobs in his spare time. After completion of his cooking degree, Jack found full-time work as a chef, and eventually, he opened his own restaurant, Jack’s Bistro.