Article: `What's Cooking'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Thanksgiving dinner, that most American of banquets, is served in its infinite variety in "What's Cooking," Gurinder Chadha's multigenerational, multi-course, multi-culti tribute to the nation's melting pot and turkey baster.

Co-written and directed by the Kenyan-born, London-educated filmmaker of Punjabi descent, the delightful film starring Mercedes Ruehl, Alfre Woodard, Lainie Kazan and Joan Chen sniffs around four kitchens of one Los Angeles neighborhood on T-Day. In this dramatic comedy there's a lot simmering _ and not all is meant for eating.

There are the obvious ethnic variations on the theme: Latinos cook tamales as a side dish, ...

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