As the saying goes, "the people take food as the sky", and the taste of food is always evocative. Food knows no borders, there is no distinction between high and low, and tasting food is not only a special experience, but also a spiritual enjoyment.
Today I recommend a food documentary produced by Netflix, which is guaranteed to make your appetite explode after watching it.
"Chef's Table", as a food documentary produced by Netflix, can receive praise and surprises every season. There have been four seasons plus a French season, and the fifth season has recently returned.
Since the first season, the "Chef's Table" program team has traveled to the world, showing the specialties of many famous chefs in France, Italy, the United States, Sweden, Australia, Thailand and other countries, so that the audience can feast their eyes.
Last season, I specifically took out a whole season to introduce desserts, a special food, but seemingly unimportant desserts can make people feel happy and happy, and have such a strong healing effect.
Instead of telling the audience how to cook a delicious meal, Chef's Table features the chef as the protagonist, and each episode tells the story behind the chef's personal and culinary delights.
As another translation of the documentary, "One Kitchen, One World," we see different worlds in different chefs, and food is a way for them to express their views on the world and promote their attitudes towards life.
You can clearly feel a strong humanistic concern from the fifth season of the return, and the food is given more social significance.
For example, in the first episode, Christina Martinez, a female chef from Mexico, began to learn roast sheep at the age of six, and with her family's inherited barbecue skills, she opened a restaurant in Philadelphia, USA, bringing the very traditional dishes of central Mexico to a foreign country.
In November 2016, Good Appetite magazine announced 10 of the best new restaurants in the United States, and her restaurants successfully made the list and gained some popularity.
However, Christina's immigration status is relatively special, especially in today's US policy environment, immigration is a rather sensitive topic.
She could be in danger or even have nothing. Even so, she bravely stood up for the immigrant community, striving for the rights and status she deserved and changing the dilemma of social injustice.
After learning more about Christina's personal experience, you will understand why she smuggled herself to the United States after so many hardships, which is really an inspirational story of women's struggle.
Christina jumped into the fire pit of marriage as early as the age of 17, her husband not only used her as an employee, but also abused and scolded at home, and her mother-in-law looked at her coldly and pretended to be deaf and dumb to everything.
Women living in Christina's hometown marry early and have children early if they don't go to school, and there are arguably many regions around the world that practice this traditional patriarchal value.
Christina's daughter is no exception, working for the family at the age of 6, and although she wants to go to boarding school at the age of 13, Christina's husband is bent on getting his daughter married and keeping a firm grip on all the money in the family.
In order not to let her daughter follow her own old path, Christina had to smuggle herself to the United States and desperately earn tuition for her daughter.
She gradually got her own career in the United States and found true love (I didn't expect to be sprinkled with dog food on a food show).
Although Christina and her daughter are thousands of miles apart, she can still find the taste of home through the food she cooks herself, and feel the strong warmth.
The hometown delicacies she cooks have built a bridge of communication for people and made each other understand each other more.
This may be the meaning and value of food.
As Christina puts it: "I cook food with love, strength and passion. "The chefs in this documentary do not forget their original intentions, maintain their true selves, and pursue deep meaning and value with deep passion and love.
In the fifth season, these four episodes of different cuisines from Mexico, Turkey, Thailand and Spain not only bring visual impact and enjoyment, but also make the audience have a different understanding of food.
It can be said that Netflix has done the food documentary to the extreme, not only to capture the audience's stomach, but also to enter the audience's heart.
Whether it is the Mexican female chef who dares to fight against fate and speak out for immigrants, or the Turkish male chef who insists on national cooking and only unites different races;
Whether it is the Thai female chef who pursues a green and environmentally friendly lifestyle, or the Spanish male chef who strives to get rid of his brother's light, we can see our own shadow in them.
They are not only cooking delicious dishes, but also tasting the bittersweet and bittersweet of life, wanting to pursue a better lifestyle and achieve higher personal and social values.
Some viewers may think that the fifth season is not as good as the previous seasons in terms of visual experience, but the fifth season digs out more connotations of food in depth.
In addition to the good qualities of inheritance, resistance, struggle, persistence, courage, innovation, etc., there is also great love for food, family, friends and even strangers, which is a touch that transcends national boundaries and is also a good medicine to heal the soul.
As the saying goes, "All things in the world, only love and food can not be disappointed." ”
(This article first published FIX subtitles man)