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| Duncan’s son, his name means “disciple of St. Columba” |
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| In the play, Banquo comments on these “bearded women,” but in the film, they are slightly effeminate male hippies |
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| “Brown Warrior”; the film takes advantage of the name to make him a former Donut mogul |
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| In the play, she asks spirits to “unsex” her, but in the film she uses her feminine wiles |
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| Also Duncan’s son, his name means “world-ruler” and “bridge” and was shortened in Scotland PA |
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| In the play, his children are killed; in the film, he takes over the burger joint |
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| Banquo’s son, not used in film |
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| Changed from a military leader a binge drunk and fry cook |
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| Though his name means “son of life”, he’s responsible for the deaths of at least 14 people |
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| A courtier in the play, a shoplifting counter lady in the film |
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| Peach, symbol of female body in Japanese culture, mercilessly squashed by old woman in the imported grocery story |
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| Younger truck driver, dresses in all white, reads the novel that inspires the stop at that noodle bar |
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| Japanese gangster, epicure and sexual experimenter |
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| A character’s consistency over time |
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| Tampopo’s son, his fights with friends mirror the disputes of grown men in film |
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| “Dandelion”, widowed owner of noodle shop |
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| White rice, symbolic of Japanese cultural isolation and purity |
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| John Wayne figure, coach and truck driver |
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| Contractor, drunk, dresses like a newsboy from a 1930’s film (pantaloons, tweed cap, argyle socks) |
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| A quirk or idiosyncrasy which is at odds with the dominant character traits |
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| “Brilliant,” confidently expecting a proposal from Master Chu, she’s shocked to learn he’s marrying her daughter |
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| “Coral”; trades her mom’s terrible lunches for elaborate meals cooked by Master Chu |
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| “Scarlet,” head chef at Taipei Grand Hotel and father of three grown daughters |
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| “Cultured”; Sous chef at Taipei Grand Hotel; surrogate father to Jia-Chien |
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| “Protector,” gallery owner, having an affair with young executive, his ex, despite getting engaged to his current girlfriend |
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| “Peaceful + from a good family,” sweet-looking Wendy’s clerk who snaps up her friend Rachel’s ex |
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| “Nation”, Dostoyevsky-reading depressive who get over Rachel by dating her co-worker |
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| “golden + from a good family”; lone Christian in a Buddhist household; tricked by her Chemistry students into believing she has a lover |
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| “Golden lotus flower,” during her difficult divorce, she began an affair with her best friend’s father, who is thirty-five years older |
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| “ambitious + from a good family,” business executive with airline company who would love to be a chef instead |
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| “Miss Excess” red clothes and apt, hourglass figure |
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| “Racket, din”; opts out of the Butcher’s monopoly on food by raising his own snails and frogs |
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| “Valve,” butcher and landlord who hoard’s grains and controls his neighbors and lover with food |
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| Vegetarian activist, cellist, girlish dress |
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| “Dawn,” suicidal wife, all-green apt |
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| “Little Louis,” former clown and handyman |
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| “Cassava pudding,” father of the only nuclear family in the building; lives by scavenging |
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| “Cave-dwellers” underground revolutionary guard |
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| In love with married neighbor. Loses his leg trying to rush to her aid in the stairwell |
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| Toymaker; torments his brother’s crush by speaking through the pipes to her |
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| 17th century Navy clerk whose diary recorded the Great Fire of London, the Plague, and the Restoration of the King |
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| “Youthful”; first iconic American female chef with her own TV program |
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| “Mrs. Joy”: author of The Joy of Cooking |
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| Author of The Joy of Sex, a “gourmet” guide to exploring marital intimacy |
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| cubicle worker, native Texan, and prolific swearer who cooks every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year |
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| Weakest contributor to Mastering the Art of French Cooking |
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| “She who hears,” French collaborator on Mastering the Art of French Cooking |
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| first young bride to work her way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 1962, and parlay her experience into a culinary empire |
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| “Small”, former spy, mapmaker, illustrator of Mastering the Art of French Cooking |
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| Julie’s brother and frequent guinea-pig for her dishes such as “Bitch Rice,” aka Rice a la Indienne |
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