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Are there any good documentaries on food? Tried watching the one on Netflix, but the chefs are so pretentious.

Posting the seminal favorite.

>> No.6832229

>>6832133
Watch the sriracha one. It's a condiment, but it's a good doc too. I know I know.. meme/fad, but long after the hipsters are gone, it'll still be a flavorful hot sauce.

>> No.6832301

>>6832133
Just watch I Like Killing Flies

Easily one of the best food based documentaries out there

its sorta like a documentary on the soup nazi

>> No.6832836

Like any intelligent, forward thinking citizens of the 21st century, my wife and I are feminists. And like any feminists we were shocked and disgusted by this movie.

Both the main character (Jiro) AND the narrator are male! If alarms aren't going off in your head so far you're probably a bigot. Things became more and more repulsive as the movie played on. All of the supporting characters are male! And even worse, almost every single character in the movie is male!

I don't care if this is a documentary. My wife left the room in tears at the end of the first hour during a particularly sickening scene where Jiro serves a room full of customers. He says (not an exact quote) "I made the meals smaller for the women and larger for the men so that everyone would finish at the same time." Things like this would be expected in a film about Adolf Hitler or Winston Churchill (both disgusting sexist pigs)but in a movie about food it was just chilling. And that wasn't even the worst part! The women in the room appeared (probably special effects or movie magic of some type) TO APPROVE OF THIS. Can you believe that?

My wife won't talk about it and I'm not sure I could if I wanted to. I finished the movie with tears in my bloodshot eyes. I can't believe we've advanced so far as a society and women are still seen as being gutter scum.

Anyone forward thinking enough to simply be on the internet, to find this movie, to read this review, will be disgusted by the brutally sexist assault on your senses and common decency this movie has gotten away with.

>> No.6832838

Finding General Tso had many great perspectives on food, culture, and migration of peoples.

Available on Netflix.

>> No.6832873

Required viewing:
Supersize Me
Forks Over Knives
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

>> No.6832920

>>6832133

King's of Pastry

>> No.6832921
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6832921

There's nothing pretentious about having pride in your craft

>> No.6832950

>>6832838
i watched this one on a whim and was pleasantly surprised. gave a nic ehistory of chinese food in Amrika

>> No.6832968

>>6832133
Have you watched any mind of a chef episodes? Most of the chefs are pretty cool. David Chang in S1 and the guys in S3 are easy to watch, I found Sean Brock kinda boring though.

>> No.6832982

>>6832838
It's pretty nice but they implied fortune cookies where originally Chinese when it was invented by Japanese-Americans.

>> No.6833000

>>6832982
No, they didn't.

>> No.6833014

>>6833000
Makoto Hagiwara. The Chinese only got into the game when the Japanese were rounded up, their businesses closed and they were fenced in.

>> No.6833019

>>6833014
I know that. I am saying the movie didn't imply otherwise

>> No.6833020

>>6833014
Also, to add, Mainlanders have no idea what the fuck a fortune cookie is.

>> No.6833026

>>6833019
Yeah, they did. "We're been here for generations" etc, etc. For a documentary about the origins of food, they didn't bother to bring up the Japanese origins.

>> No.6833042

>>6833026
he's a dumb ass chink; fuck his ass all thew way up mott street

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6833145

>>6832836
Not quite my b8

>> No.6833493

>nobody has recommended Chef's Table

Worth a watch. 3 episodes in and you can tell these Michelin star chefs are pretentious as fuck, but it's fun learning about them because they all have such interesting lives.

>> No.6833506

>>6832920

Saw the final bit on TV once. It's pretty good.

>> No.6833544

>>6833493

david chang is the best guy hands down. least pretentious and he's good as fuck.. the woman was absolute shit, i'd recommend skipping her.

magnusson is the craziest technically but he seems like such an egotistical dick.

>> No.6833550

>>6833544
I don't believe Chang was in that series, was he?

>> No.6833557

>>6833544
My favourite was Massimo Bottura

>>6833550
Don't think so

>> No.6833568

>>6833550

ohh, duh.. no, i'm thinking of "mind of a chef".

he has like 16 episodes. he's a cool dude. magnusson is also on mind of a chef. the series is more in depth and covers a lot more ground.

>> No.6833577

>>6833557
I really like Massimo as well, but my favorite was Dan Barber.

Guy makes me really appreciate farm to kitchen restaurants

>> No.6833593

>>6832873
Supersize me is all fabricated. He essentially ate 5000 calories ever day instead of 2000-3000. You can live off of McDonalds just fine, it's not good for you, but you won't necessarily get fat and rot away like he did.

>> No.6833607

>>6832133
Your post made me watch the Jiro doc again. It's pretty good.

>> No.6833647

>>6833593
have you seen fathead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqn-Xe_2iCw

>> No.6833685

chefs table was pretty comfy especially the guy living in the mountains

>> No.6833727

>>6832133
somm is good but i guess its kind of more just about wine, its interesting though

>> No.6833785

>>6833727

unexpected feels at the end ;_;

>> No.6833806

>>6832836
>doesn't even mention he's in a half-open relationship

Holy shit stop oppressing your wife, she needs more than one partner

>> No.6833830

>>6832133
american eats, history on a bun.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs6n6l#user_search=1
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs6pr1_american-eats-history-on-a-bun-part-2-of-2_lifestyle
probably one of my favorites.

>> No.6833834

>>6833647

is this for real ?

>> No.6833866

Chef Ramsay did a documentary about Indian cuisine was pretty good

>> No.6833871

>>6833834
not sure what you mean, it's a real documentary
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333994/

>> No.6833873

El bulli
Somm (about wine but worth noting)

>> No.6833903

>>6832836

I need to know where this review was posted. It's absolutely golden.

>> No.6833917

I'm wondering why there are no other Reviewers who have commented on this film's disgusting display of mass slaughter of our sea creatures by the Japanese. I had to turn this movie off half way through. It was so horrible to get a glimpse into those seafood markets where there are massive amounts of beautiful sea creatures captured and held in plastic bags and nets only to be auctioned away for slaughter. This reminded me of a animal rights documentary showcasing how the Japanese are destroying our oceans and the creatures that swim within them. I'm so sad that such pressure is put on Japanese sushi chefs to find the absolute best meat and to serve it at the highest price. This has produced a culture that lives and breathes off the mass slaughter of our ocean's inhabitants, and quite frankly I think it needs to be stopped.

Really disgusted.

>> No.6833940

>>6833903

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2EQAFVSLFAQWI/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg1?ie=UTF8&asin=B008ODZEQ0&cdForum=FxFX84EVB9S0CP&cdPage=1&cdThread=Tx2Z2AXNKEYE0JY&store=instant-video#wasThisHelpful

>> No.6834000

>>6832301

anyone know where to watch this?

>> No.6834773

>>6833873
>Somm (about wine but worth noting)

I enjoyed this one, too.

>> No.6835648

>>6832873
required for faggotronics

>> No.6835669

>>6832133
The second episode of Chef's Table was pretty fucking cool though. The one where it's not in a big fancy restaurant, where the dude just sits on an island, catches food and prepares it right there. The rest were pretty weak but that episode was nice.

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6837109

7.5/10

Some places dragged but overall a good documentary.

>> No.6837119

Andy Ricker Farang documentary
Dude's way annoying but good shots of thai food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr4HHepGxxM

>> No.6837135

>>6832133
A Bite of China

>> No.6837136

>>6832133
lol sushi

>> No.6837260

>>6832133
Pretentious? No you fucking duck
The art of sushi like any cooking genre, is to always maintain consistent on the plates you create, and how you're always striving to achieve perfection
Knowing that it will never be reached, it's called discipline

>> No.6837626

>>6833593
The whole fucking point was to super size it every time he got it that's why

>> No.6837686

Just watch everything by and with gordon ramsay in it

>> No.6837804

>>6832968

My mom and I both loved this one. It was really well done by netflix.

>> No.6839207
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6839207

I don't even drink wine, but this was excellent.
Somm and Jiro are the best that I've watched.

>> No.6840396

>>6837109
the whole SAVE TUNA part was too preachy for me

>> No.6840428

james may done a wine/beer thing. was really good. james and oz or something like that.

>> No.6840459

>>6833493
I started an episode of this, I think it was the first one. Maybe my hopes were too high, but I was let down. They just kept talking about the chef and how magical and different he is and how his life is super cool, when I really just wanted to see more food and cooking.

>> No.6840692

>>6833830
holy shit, thanks anon, i found jiro pretty boring but this changes topic so frequently and smoothly
highly recommend it

>> No.6840758

>>6837626
But he only super-sized his meal when they asked him specifically if he would like to super-size it. Every meal was not super-sized

>> No.6840828

>>6840758
watch >>6833647

>> No.6841365

>Movies

Exploring China
Food - A Cultural Culinary History
El Bulli - Cooking in Progress
Tasting Treasure of China
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Kings of Pastry
Somm
Spinning Plates
Step Up to the Plate
A Matter of Taste
3 Stars
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Inventing Cuisine (several each based on a different chef)
Red Obsession
The Restauranteur
Eat This New York
A Year in Burgundy
Boom Varietal
Decoding Ferran Adria


>TV Series


>Anthony Bourdain:


A Cook's Tour (By far the best IMO)
No Reservations
Parts Unknown
The Layover

Food & Drink
Food Safari
French Food Safari
Luke Nguyen's Vietnam
Luke Nguyen's France
Heston Blumenthal - In Search of Perfection
How to Cook Like Heston
Kitchen Chemistry with Heston Blumenthal
Mary Berry Cooks
The Mind of a Chef
Raymond Blanc - How to Cook Well
Raymond Blanc - The Very Hungry Frenchman
Americas Test Kitchen
The French Chef(Julia Child)
The Galloping Gourmet
Any Jacques Pepin PBS series

>Instructional Videos


Rouxbe Cooking School
CIA - Knife Skills (Culinary Institute of America)

>Cooking Competitions that are good and all about food


Knife Fight
MasterChef Australia, Ireland, and UK(only the UK Professional Series)

>Fictional series and movies that are good and foodcentric


Kitchen Confidential
Whites
Party Down
The Trip
Comme Un Chef
La Grande Bouffe
Tampopo

>> No.6841404

>>6841365
>french cuisine
>chinese cuisine

snob/10, literally meme cuisines

>> No.6841468

>>6841365
Oh and I've personally seen all of these and they are all pretty good. I'm sure there is some stuff that has came out since I created this list a year or so ago. I just copy and paste it whenever someone asks because it used to come up a lot so its not exactly updated.

There are some real gems here. Most of it can be found on TPB but somethings like Inventing Cuisine cannot. If you have the money I would highly recommend buying the whole set though because it is really worth it. They profile some amazing chefs. The Bras one is one of my favorites.

Food - A Cultural Culinary History is long. I think its about 30 parts @ 30min per part but it dissects food from its very beginning up until modern times. Well worth the watch.

El Bulli, Step Up to the Plate(Detailing Seba Bras taking over Restaurant Bras from his father) , and A Matter of Taste(about Paul Liebrandt; one of the youngest chefs to be starred ever) are probably my favorite although they are all pretty good.

Red Obsession, A Year in Burgundy, Boom Varietal, and Somm are about wine not food but I think they fit with the theme.

>> No.6841472

>>6834000

netflix

>> No.6841478

>>6841404
>>6841404
You are certainly entitled to your opinion I was just helping out the OP. Personally I feel both French cuisine & Chinese cuisine both pioneered and laid the foundation for modern cookery in their respective parts of the world. Thats only my opinion though

I think there is room for all cuisines to be discussed here not just what you consider to be relevant. Each country's food is unique & even within each country each region's food is unique and I think they all have a place.

They all bring something special to the table and I think to discount an entire countries cuisine because you believe they are "meme foods" is a real injustice and part of the reason I don't come to this board as much as I used to and spend most of my time on ChefTalk instead.

I don't consider myself a snob, I enjoy foods from most countries in the world but like everyone else I do have my favorites. I am partial to the pork and duck fat laden cuisine of SW France(probably because of the time I spent working there) as well as the German inspired cuisine from NE France along the German border and the foods of Northern China. I am also a big fan of Spanish cuisine particularly Catalonian and Andorran and Portugal is not without it merits either. I think there is probably something for everyone in every cuisine if you seek it out.

I'm not sure I understand your criteria for "meme cuisines" or why you consider French & Chinese to be a meme. They have both been around for a very long time and to say that they have nothing to offer to the culinary would is pretty strange to hear as a professional in the field but as I said you are certainly entitled to you own opinion. Hopefully you can find something in this list that you would enjoy and I encourage you to take a chance on a couple you think you wouldn't because they might surprise you.

What drives food even more so than innovation is passion and there's certainly a lot of passion for their craft in both of these places.

>> No.6841677

>>6832968
Chang was really good, wish there was more. Its hard to watch Sean, he's just too laid back and its nothing but southern food. Probably just going to skip to Season 3 then.

>> No.6841738

The documentary series about Gourmet Academy, I forget what it was called. The chairman of the academy had a really cool life.

>> No.6841756

>>6841365
Hell yeah, thanks for this. Going to check these out.

>> No.6842150

>>6833647
I just watched the whole thing

Incredible. Thank you for showing me this, you may have saved my life

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>>6832133
this one

>> No.6842449

>>6840396

Pretty much this.

It started out as a nice documentary on sushi and then turned into a plea for humane fishing out of nowhere.

>> No.6842457

>>6841365

Thanks anon.

I could have ate at every restaurant, featured in everything on your list, and it wouldn't have raised my blood pressure as much as reading though your list and finally seeing Tampopo, at the very bottom.

I know it's not necessarily ranked, but the idea of such an autistic anon leaving out the best food movie ever made almost gave me a heart attack.

>> No.6842559

>>6833830
This is some nostalgia here!

>> No.6842718

>>6841365
Gonna check these out thanks