Film Dining

May's film was 1989's Batman by Tim Burton. In this film, there is dinner scene where Bruce Wayne is on a date and they eat soup. The type of soup that they are eating is unclear, but while researching for this film, I discovered that the pairing of Batman and soup is extremely common. Several movies have scenes of Bruce Wayne eating soup and apparently that carries over to the comics as well. It didn't take me long to uncover that according to the comics, Batman's favorite meal was a dish called mulligatawny soup. This inspired our dinner theme. I decided that rather than focusing on just one soup, we would do something like a soup bar where guests could taste and sample multiple different soup dishes. I would make a couple to get started and encouraged guests to bring their own soups to add to the lineup.  Since dinner was based on Batman, I decided that Joker would help inspire dessert. I struggled with figuring out the best way to do this. There is brief scene in th...