This weekend I started binge-watching the first season of David Chang's Ugly Delicious, and it didn't disappoint. He jumps right into the fraught question of "authenticity" in food by traveling between Brooklyn, Napoli, LA, and, ahem, spending a day working at a local Domino's to get to the heart of understanding pizza.
It was great. It was totally unpretentious. The Domino's stuff really impressed me as well because in addition to saying the occasional craving for Corporate Garbage Food doesn't make you an awful person, he took the time to seriously interview the manager and delivery dude as to how they saw their roles in the larger food universe. He did it, as a Michelin-starred chef, without any hint of condescension.
I'm looking forward to the rest, and season two as well.
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