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COOKING HISTORY

Peter Kerekes
AUT, SK, CZ 2009
88 min
V'09

Cooking History is about army cooks, about how everyday needs of thousands of armed stomachs affected victories and defeats of the statesmen. About field kitchen as a model of the world where food preparation becomes a fight strategy. A fight for great ideals standing on strong legs of the kitchen table. The film is based on eleven recipes of the cooks since the Second World War till the war in Tchetchenia, from France through Balkan to Russia.
The main characters in Cooking History are army cooks. Simple men in aprons put on the uniform with their task to look after filling the giant stomach of a big hungry child - the army. At first sight, their role is less important than that of the tank crews, aircraft unions or landing divisions. However, when a proper filling and emptying of the stomach is secured, it can also provide a fluent occupying and leaving of the army positions. Thus, army cooks can affect the mood and actions of the soldiers and influence the history through their spoons. However, cooking and fighting have a lot in common: strategizing, judging the correct proportion of ingredients, flavouring. Food preparation becomes a metaphor for the battle. (Peter Kerekes)

Credits
  • Peter Kerekes
  • Martin Kollár
  • Daniel Nemec
  • Štepán Mamula
  • Marek Šulík
  • Marek Piacek
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