Cooking with Scorsese celebrates iconic films through the medium of food, with a visual narrative that allows the reader to rediscover key gastronomic moments in cinematic history.

Iron-cooked ham and cheese sandwiches, cailles en sarcophagi, explosive pissing beef balls; low, high, accessible, obscure and comical.

Food, like art, is served up in various guises, but whatever form it takes, it shares the common traits of being a stimulant as well as a necessity for living.