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Raja, Rasoi Aur Anya Kahaniyaan (2014)
A very good place to start to understand Indian Cuisine. Just to get a reference of what lies beneath.
Very well filmed, researched and presented. This series attempts the impossible and does it very well to an extent. Seems like the idea was to give an overall picture of how diverse,complicated, brilliant and old Indian food is and yet trying to start to scratch the surface somewhere. It also feels like a documentary made for Indians in order to remind us about our own food heritage and make us feel very proud about it. I am sure every Indian who watched it felt they missed some obvious recipes but that is justified as around 20 to 30 mins to cover a state's cuisine is an impossible task. Although the presentation is mostly in hindi and as such completely misses the mark in the pronunciation of many south indian dishes (But, its alright, we will let this one slide :P). Immense respect to the boss man "Pushpesh Pant", never knew there was a food historian in India. The task at hand is extremely difficult and hence rated 9 on 10 because the effort is commendable and beautiful. Would love to see an episode for a particular district's food within each state but that will become a year long series :P
A very good place to start to understand Indian Cuisine. Just to get a reference of what is all the "fuss" about..
This series is like the tip of the iceberg. A lot more lies beneath.
Ugly Delicious (2018)
At last someone said it.
What David Chang did here was on a lot of people's mind for a long time but they hesitated to say it out loud for various reasons. Selective appreciation of some food cultures is so wrong and what it does is diminish other food cultures. For some reason stupid people start flowing "trends" in food and lose their originality. "Follow the food" you may say but "trends" change what people eat and the distinction of this food is classier than that is wrong and a lot of food cultures die because people stop eating it as it is not considered "fine dining". Food, of all things is an individual's representation of all his/her living years. It shouldn't be judged by the way it looks. As he rightly said, people should stop charging for food by the way it looks but by the way it tastes. Flavors are a living testament to how rich a culture is and how it evolved feeding billions of people. (Rich or poor) food is for everyone.