Famous movie food scenes
The Godfather Food Scenes — Sauce, Cannoli and Sunday Gravy
The Godfather features one of film's best-known cooking lessons, when Clemenza shows Michael how to make a tomato sauce with sausage and meatballs, plus the famous cannoli line.
In the film, Clemenza teaches Michael to brown garlic, add tomatoes and paste, then add sausage and meatballs, a scene often cited as a snapshot of Italian-American Sunday sauce.
Cannoli also appear in one of the film's most quoted lines, and the dessert has been tied to the movie in popular culture ever since.
The food
- Sunday sauce with sausage and meatballs
- Cannoli
Larry says: “Clemenza put sausage in the sauce. That's the most important scene in cinema history. I will not be taking questions.”
An in-character joke, not a quote from the film, show or person.
Questions
- What does Clemenza cook in The Godfather?
- A tomato sauce with garlic, sausage and meatballs, which he shows Michael how to make.
- Why are cannoli linked to The Godfather?
- Because of a famous line about cannoli in the film, one of the most quoted in movie history.