Ugly Delicious.
Elgin and Paul check out #UglyDelicious:
Ugly Delicious, a new documentary series from Netflix, produced by and starring Momofuku chef David Chang and New York Times food critic Peter Meehan. Rather than covering a single place, as do so many other food and travel shows, this one focuses on a particular type of food (such as pizza, fried chicken, or fried rice) and delves deeper into how it’s thought about, prepared, and consumed across the globe.
Featuring several culinary luminaries (such as Mark Iacono of Lucali, Roy Choi of Kogi, and René Redzepi of Noma) and on-screen celebrities (such as Aziz Ansari, Steven Yeun, and Ali Wong), the show explores and deconstructs our notions of authenticity, high and low cuisine, and cultural culinary fusion and appropriation. In many ways quite personal, Chang and Meehan’s new series doesn’t shy away from tough issues surrounding food and racism even as they celebrate how cross-border migrations can transform culture and cuisine. We share our deeply personal connections to this dear screen stuff, and Paul points out some of the blind spots the creators may have.
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