Dean & de Luca - Popular Culture

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  • In the 1990s, the name was borrowed for a fictional New York City coffee shop in the TV series Felicity.
  • In the movie Hannibal, Lecter is seen to eat from a Dean & DeLuca travel pack, containing foie gras.
  • The character of Patrick Bateman, in American Psycho, refers to Italian seasoning salt, picked up from Dean & DeLuca.
  • Dean & DeLuca is mentioned in the top-selling novel, The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The band Steely Dan "name-checks" Dean & DeLuca in their song "Janie Runaway", from the album Two Against Nature.
  • In the popular sitcom Will and Grace, Will Truman regularly visits "Dean & DeLuca".
  • In the popular sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" in the 6th season, episode 4, Dean & DeLuca can be seen.
  • In the movie The Family Man, Jack Campbell recalls walking to work every morning with a coffee from Dean & DeLuca in his hand.
  • In the movie The Devil Wears Prada, Nate stops at Dean & DeLuca before returning home and tells Andy "man, they charge, like, five dollars a strawberry there."
  • In the TV Series Bored to Death, Richard Antrem leaves Jonathan a sandwich from Dean & DeLuca for his stakeout of Richard's wife. Richard leaves a note on it saying, "I made this for you myself".
  • In the movie Julie & Julia, on the twenty-second day of her year-long expedition through Julia Child's cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julie gets "carried away" in Dean & DeLuca, where she spends half of her take-home pay on groceries.
  • In the TV show Gossip Girl, Blair Waldorf is often seen carrying a cup of coffee from Dean and DeLuca while sitting at The Met steps.

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