Richard Morais spins a yarn about a lowly Indian cook from Mumbai who becomes a three-star chef in Paris. An international bestseller, the book was adapted by DreamWorks into a 2014 movie starring Helen Mirren, and produced by Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake.
The trauma was finally resolved, Hallstrom said, when the two filmmakers joined forces on "The Hundred-Foot Journey," which Hallstrom directed and Spielberg produced, along with Oprah Winfrey and "Ted Talks" curator Juliet Blake.