The Week contest: Food film
This week's question: Wellness maven Gwyneth Paltrow recently confessed that she's eating dairy and carbs again after growing "a little sick of" her strict years-long paleo diet. If Hollywood were to make a movie about an actress who gets a new lease on life after rediscovering the joys of bread and cheese, what would it be titled?
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THE WINNER: "There's Something About Dairy"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
SECOND PLACE: "Cheese Knives Out"
Joyce Salter, La Crescenta, California
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THIRD PLACE: "How Stella Got Her Gruyère Back"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Romancing the Scone"
Jason Schnuit, Santa Monica, California
"Every Food, In My Mouth, All At Once"
Becca Fischer, Edgewater, Colorado
"Bridget Jones's Dairy"
Rick Torrence, The Village, Oklahoma
"Carbs, Her Enthusiasm"
Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, New York
"How Stella Got Her Gruyère Back"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
"Wheat, Brie, Love"
John Chuter, Vero Beach, Florida
"The Challahday"
Piper Ozmer, Smyrna, Georgia
"My Big Fat Greek Yogurt"
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
"The Cheese Danish Girl"
John Keefe, Mount Vernon, Washington
"Carbarella"
Barry Langman, New York City
"Jaws 5: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Plate"
Geoff Landis, Westland, Michigan
"Return to the Planet of the Crêpes"
David Krueger, Houston, Texas
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