As if I needed any more proof that I'm a total food geek... I was reading a review of No Reservations (and btw didn't they notice that Bourdain was already using that title for his series) and they remarked that Aaron Eckhart's character is Italian-trained and he's given a lot of shit about by the other cooks. The writer expressed disbelief that anything like that would ever happen. Meanwhile, I'm going, of course they did. No doubt they were all French-trained. There's a long tradition of French chefs looking down their toques at Italian cuisine. Even Julia Child, I believe, was known to dismiss the skills of Italian cuisine chefs. I think having odd bits o' trivia like that leap readily is a pretty strong geek indicator.
List the most popular 100 dishes of any country in the world. Now pick one list to have to eat from for the rest of your life. What country do you choose? I haven't thought about this much, but I suspect somehow that Italy would be in the top couple of countries I'd pick.
That said, I probably won't see this movie. I did see Mostly Martha and liked it lots. I don't feel the need to see it again, though. And I definitely don't need to see it again, sweetened, in English.