Chef's Table
By Martin Brown,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Documentary series on chefs and food is thoughtful, diverse.
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Inspiring and beautiful!
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What's the Story?
Each episode of CHEF'S TABLE focuses on a single world-renowned chef. It interweaves stories of how each chef came to love food, learn how to cook, and become successful with depictions of the chef making the very dishes that made him or her famous. The subjects vary widely from episode to episode. For example, one focuses on a New York pastry chef known for using junk food to make luxurious desserts, and the next will travel to a temple in South Korea to learn how a Buddhist nun feeds her fellow nuns and monks.
Is It Any Good?
As with any documentary series that changes its subject each episode, the quality varies throughout the series, but if you're a lover of food and food culture, this show will have something for you. Some episodes present a simple narrative where the chef cooks something, people like it, and they repeat this until they find success -- so there's no real struggle or insight into what it takes to be a capital-G great chef. But at its best, Chef's Table goes to great lengths to present unique and compelling points of view from all over the world. Chefs like Buddhist nun Jeong Kwon or Brazilian punk Alex Atala do so much more than cook; they present entire philosophies on how food can impact and improve people's lives.
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Families can talk about the differences between the food they see on Chef's Table and the food they eat every day. What makes this food remarkable? How is it similar to the food we have at home? How is it different?
All of the chefs on Chef's Table have a unique story about how they came to love food and what food means to them. How does each chef's story inform his or her food? How does it affect how the chef thinks about food?
TV Details
- Premiere date: April 26, 2015
- Network: Netflix
- Genre: Reality TV
- Topics: Cooking and Baking
- TV rating: TV-MA
- Last updated: February 27, 2022
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