Meals Author Ruth Reichl’s Documentary ‘Meals and Nation’ Will Play SXSW

This yr’s South by Southwest (SXSW) movie competition options the Texas premiere of a documentary with famed meals author and critic Ruth Reichl that explores the damaged meals methods in America.

Meals and Nation may have 4 showings at SXSW. The primary is on Monday, March 13 at 11 a.m. on the Rollins Theatre on the Lengthy Middle Reichl, the place director Laura Gabbert shall be current for a Q&A following that first screening.

Meals and Nation, which started filming through the COVID-19 pandemic, follows Reichl as she interviews ranchers, farmers, cooks, and a fisherman throughout the U.S. to see how they’re coping with the pandemic and different systemic challenges. The documentary additionally explores a little bit of Reichl’s previous, and her views have advanced since her idealistic days as a restaurant employee in Berkeley, California within the Seventies.

Reichl, a six-time James Beard Award winner and best-selling writer, was the meals critic for the Los Angeles Occasions and New York Occasions earlier than changing into the editor of Connoisseur journal for the last decade earlier than it folded in 2009.

Meals and Nation premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant final month to nearly universally optimistic critiques. Gabbert isn’t any stranger to exploring the tradition of meals: she additionally directed and produced 2015’s Metropolis of Gold, which adopted the affect of Los Angeles meals critic Jonathan Gold, and 2020’s Ottolenghi and the Truffles of Versailles.

Additionally enjoying at SXSW is a biopic movie in regards to the supposed creator of the Flamin’ Scorching Cheetos.

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