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Chef's Table

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50 min
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gumstarr
6 May 2015, 18:37
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If you plan to stuff outrageously pricey food in a star restaurant, it is recommended to see if you can do that at the table du chef. Many restaurants have one and from this strategic spot in the middle of the kitchen you can see exactly what those cookers are doing with your foie gras poached in caviar stock. If you don't feel like paying yourself all round blue (see what I did there?) For portions that even Kate Moss would scoff her nose for, you can now also sit down at the chef's table in your own living room. Figuratively then. In the six-part Netflix documentary series 'Chef's Table' you sit with your nose on top of the fingers, thoughts and dishes of six of the world's greatest cooking artists. How spottieottiedopalicious is that ?! Massimo Bottura. Dan Barber. Francis Mallmann. Niki Nakayama. Ben Shewry. Magnus Nilsson. The names probably don't mean anything to you, but this illustrious list belongs to the global culinary rock star elite. They are the Einsteins, Jim Hensons and Picassos of the kitchen unit. 100-year-old aceto balsamic vinegar runs through their veins and they can hear the hiss of the pan when the diamond tenderloin is ready for its bed of steamed seasonal vegetables. If the Avengers were looking for a chef with otherworldly baking and roasting skills, they would no doubt look up the names above in the Golden Pages. Whether you're watching Bottura in Modena with his Ducati Diavel scare the cows of the local Parmigiano farm, Mallmann is frying caramelizing pig carcasses over the campfire in his backyard in the most remote part of Patagonia, or How Barber in New York tries to save asparagus for asparagus from our wolverines, it's all as entertaining as it is inspiring. In words that sometimes taste just as good as the dishes they serve, the chefs tell about their philosophy, that success often depends on coincidences and about falling over and getting up again. It's not really about eating at all, but about pursuing dreams without losing your principles. They are passionate people who unintentionally make you feel guilty that you have been hanging like a bag of potatoes on your Klippan all day, while at that time you could also have knocked the first piles of your own empire into the ground. One chef is a bit more interesting than the other - I myself mainly clapped for Dan Barber and Magnus 'De Viking' Nilsson - but in combination with the music and sometimes overwhelming images, every episode is actually more than worthwhile. If you enjoyed the documentaries about El Bulli and Jiro's sushi hut before, it would be outrageous to ignore these.
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