The Meal: A delightful, home-cooked concoction that changes every sunday night and sparkling, politically charged conversation with five enthusiastic graduate school students.

And the wine's to die for.
 
The Chef: The gang behind the meal includes Jude (Cameron Diaz), Pete (Ron Eldard) Paulie (Annabeth Gish), Marc (Jonathan Penner) and Luke (Courtney B Vance).
 
How To Recreate It: Since the movie features the five opinionated, liberal-leaning types murderlising right wing loonies with tainted claret, your best bet is probably to invite people over from the local BNP group or see if you can get the contact number for anyone who writes a column for the Daily Mail.

Then you'll need plonk with the extra ingredient of poison and a group with an annoyingly smug attitude to debate, if you have one. You can find then at Waitrose if not.