Katherine Ryan talks food and film
Have you re-watched Friends recently and been oh so tempted to create your own sandwich after seeing Joey tuck into his meatball sub? Or even been drawn to certain foods you see your favourite characters eat? Well, Katherine Ryan spoke to me about the nation’s first database of top foodie moments on screen that Brit’s can recreate from home.
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00:00 [Applause]
00:06 Known for her sense of humour, comedian Katherine Ryan is spilling the beans on what famous
00:10 films and TV shows have inspired her in the kitchen.
00:13 A new Hub by Recipe Box retailer, Gusto, has created the UK's first food-inspired film
00:17 database.
00:18 In it lists the top 50 iconic food scenes from film and TV shows, from Game of Thrones
00:23 themed dishes to the Big Kahuna burgers from Pulp Fiction.
00:26 But what are some of Katherine's favourites?
00:29 I just did a study that actually 30% of Brits do get inspired by what they see on screen.
00:34 They want to make it right away.
00:35 And I feel like it's all the wonderful things at once.
00:39 We are very busy.
00:40 Everyone's got schedules, busy lives.
00:43 But for me, it's when you're at home to just really unwind.
00:47 I feel like it's almost meditation for me to have a film or like even 30 minutes of
00:51 a TV show with my husband and a bowl of something nice.
00:55 And I just think you take a lot of inspiration from film and TV.
00:59 It might be fashion or it might just be like, oh, do you know, Erin Brockovich could stand
01:04 up against this big company.
01:05 So can I. Or it just might be a beautiful Thai curry that you see and you go, I want
01:10 that too.
01:11 It's like, you know, we take when you're feeling happy and you're feeling relaxed.
01:17 For me anyway, you just want to eat.
01:19 According to Psychology Today, watching people eat can give a sense of community that perhaps
01:24 someone eating alone would otherwise miss out on.
01:27 Furthermore, it's thought that eating with our eyes per se is linked to visual hunger
01:31 and how looking at beautiful images of food increases the human desire for it, as well
01:36 as the satiation of hunger.
01:38 And I always feel that way.
01:39 If I see someone eating nachos on telly, then that's what I want to make at home.
01:43 My daughter watches The Office.
01:45 I think a lot of young people are re-watching The American Office and Kevin does this big
01:49 chili.
01:50 She always wants chili when she watches it.
01:53 As immersive food and film experiences are on the rise, is it dishes in Bridgerton you
01:57 gaze upon fondly or is it Joey's meatball sub from Friends that has made you think,
02:01 I just have to try it?
02:03 Because I was re-watching Coraline last week.
02:05 I haven't seen it, but there's a scene.
02:08 The cake.
02:09 Yes, the banquet.
02:10 And she has this mango milkshake.
02:13 I love Bridgerton and a lot like you, I really, really get inspired by the banquets.
02:20 So they always have really rich, luscious, high aspirational looking food there.
02:26 And it makes me want to get my dress on and have some champagne and have a beautiful duck
02:32 dinner.
02:33 So Lady and the Tramp, you watch that and you think of the iconic spaghetti bolognese
02:38 and you want to make that at home.
02:40 But the weather's getting colder and I also love a really warming cottage pie or chicken
02:46 and leek and cream and potato.
02:48 I should invent, I think, a Irish heritage potato infused Thai dish.
02:55 You could have like a warm, lovely Thai chicken curry without the rice, put in some mash.
03:00 That's the Katherine Ryan signature dish.
03:02 I'm going to make some calls.