Every year, we have watched the Oscars while enjoying a meal inspired by the Best Picture nominees. We’ve had sushi for Lost in Translation, cowboy beans for Brokeback Mountain, Somali chicken suqaar for Captain Phillips, etc. The photo above shows last year’s Oscar dinner, finished with the courtesan au chocolate, the elaborate filled pastry smuggled to Gustave (Ray Fiennes) in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
But this year, The Wife and I are spending an away weekend with our daughter and son-in-law, so we just can’t pull it off.
But, if we were going to stage our dinner, we would have considered:
- spaghetti from Brooklyn;
- potatoes (but not cultivated in our own waste) from The Martian;
- pub pints from one of the Boston bars in Spotlight;
- Steve Carell’s Las Vegas convention dessert in The Big Short;
- and I like the idea of raw bison liver from The Revenant, but The Wife was never going to agree to that.
Below is our 2011 pièce de résistance, our Severed Hand Ice Sculpture for 127 Hours and Winter’s Bone.
