Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Last time I found myself inside a brioche I was in college. Back then, young and broke, we were sharing a glorious and crumbling apartment located right above a pastry shop. And every morning it was the same story: they started taking stuff out of the oven around six and the tricky smell of croissants was going up the walls, turning my calm dreams of glory into surrealistic nightmares. If I was lucky, I'd find myself swimming in a cloud of leavening dough, with my hair smeared with apricot jam. In the worst case scenarios, instead, I'd struggle inside a swimming-pool of chantilly, or I'd plough with difficulty a sea of ganache cream abroad a beignet, while sugar crystals were hailing from the sky.

Instead of a brioche, this time I found myself inside a Jell-O castle and wearing a pair of 3D glasses I could enjoy the show fully awake and sitting comfortably on a chair, without risking a painful awakening.

What am I talking about? Drank too much? Smoked something weird? No, don't worry; it's just Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Everything's clear now, isn't it? If not, look here and give yourself way to pancakes' showers, colorful ice-cream's mountains, rivers full of syrup and spaghetti tornados.
Be aware of meatballs, though.

Food Inc.

Somebody once said We are what we eat. Does it still apply if we don't know what we eat anymore?

Food Inc. is not a first date movie, especially if you've planned to go out for dinner right after. The movie is hard to digest and helps raising some questions on the limits that we have to put to the evolution of the current economic system.
I don't want to talk about the millions of chickens that are raised to get fatter, kept alive for exactly six weeks without ever seeing sunlight, crammed one against the other into big containers, unable to move, so fat that often they can't even stand up and their bones crack because they can't bear such an unnatural weight.
I don't want to talk about the cattle led to slaughter in a way that is not only inhuman but also dangerous for our own health and hazardous for the workers due to the lack of safety rules.
I don't want to tell you about the workers that are recruited illegally and paid next to nothing in order to reduce cost and allow the fast food giants to offer $1 meals on their menu. I don't want to tell you about those families who live on McMeals because it cost less to buy four cheeseburgers than two pounds of carrots.
I don't want to remind you that the population is increasingly afflicted with obesity, malnutrition and diabetes because of a diet largely based on corn, which, as corn syrup, is listed as ingredient in 80% of the products we find on the shelves.
Instead, I want to advice you to go see it yourself, but remember, do NOT buy pop corn, because you won't be able to eat it - guaranteed.

If you want a ehm...taste...of the movie, watch the official trailer here.