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When Did Shows and Movies About Food Get So Horny?

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Shows like “Julia” and “The Bear” and movies like “The Taste of Things” are finding the eroticism in food and cooking—and using it tell stories that are even more human.

Kerensa Cadenas
Kerensa Cadenas
A photo illustration of scenes from The Bear, Julia, The Tastes of Things, and Menus-Plaisirs Troisgros.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/FX/HBO/Zipporah Films/Gaumont
Kerensa Cadenas

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