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Great food shows worth watching
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Baking, cooking and grilling: series and shows on the topic of food keep foodies under their spell. In the jungle of food series, we keep an overview and show amateur cooks, gourmets and Co. which programs they absolutely have to watch.
Essen not only gathers people together at a table, but also in front of the television: Because more and more programs, series and shows on the subjects of nutrition, eating, drinking and cooking are flickering across the screens. They provide information, lead to the world’s culinary hotspots or show simple recipes for enjoyable moments in everyday life.
Different formats whet the appetite for more: Cooking challenges provide excitement, culinary travel reports make foodies dream and interestingly packaged knowledge satisfies the hunger for background information. At the core, however, they have one thing in common: their great love for enjoyment. These are the greatest food shows to watch.
The best food shows for foodies
Chef’s Table
When Chef’s Table went online on Netflix in 2015, it quickly became clear: this food show changes everything. Chef’s Table brings the passion for cooking into your own four walls thanks to unique recordings, pictures and interviews of the highest quality. The series introduces the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world and shows their exciting gourmet concepts – it makes haute cuisine accessible to everyone. Eleven of the chefs in this Emmy-nominated documentary series made it onto “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants”. Among them is a German star chef: Tim Raue from Berlin.
Somebody Feed Phil
Phil Rosenthal is always in a good mood, happy and open to culinary adventures. The creator of the series “Everybody Loves Raymond” explores the cuisines and cultures of global travel destinations in the Netflix series “Somebody Feed Phil”. He is on the road in Copenhagen, Lisbon and Mexico City, among others, and introduces the local restaurant and bar scene. From small rustic snacks, hip cafés, local delicacies and extravagant gourmet temples, everything is here for every taste and budget.
When you see the hungry Phil and his shining eyes with his first bite of food, you can’t help but book your next trip around Phil’s food tips. In June 2021 season 5, the long-awaited extension of “Somebody Feed Phil” will be announced. By the way: The food show will be nominated for an Emmy as the best unstructured reality series in 2019 – be sure to check it out!
Kitchen Impossible
While some watch the crime scene on Sundays, foodies switch to VOX: A new season of Kitchen Impossible has been running there every year since 2016. With Tim Mälzer at the helm, Germany’s top chefs also face a top-class culinary challenge in every episode: the two of them compete in duels around the world to cook local favorite dishes as perfectly as possible.
The exciting cooking challenge, however, has one catch: all the ingredients are not neatly on a recipe, but must be tasted by the star chefs themselves and then combined with one another as true to the original as possible. A jury of critical regular guests then evaluates the cooked dish.
The opponents: Inside are red-hot duels at the stove and sometimes seem to almost despair of the task. Rough maltster sayings, great recordings and exciting stories about the guests – the food program, which is well worth seeing, thrives on all of this. A real homage to cooking.
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Zora just cooks it!
With freshly harvested ingredients from Ole Beeker’s garden, Zora Klipp prepares healthy dishes – with a large portion of taste! The hobby cook and restaurateur proves that you don’t have to stand at the stove for long and need all sorts of international ingredients with her food program “Zora kocht’s simply” on NDR. Together with guests from the north of Germany, she cooks with a lot of charm, wit and knowledge. With her great love for food, she infects the audience and creates modern dishes for every day from mostly seasonal and regional products.
Nadiya’s baking world
The world of Nadiya Hussain is sugar-sweet. The cook, author and winner of “The Great British Bake Off” conjures up delicious cakes, sweet cupcakes and heavenly breads on the table in her food show. In addition to the colorful dishes, foodies can also look forward to exciting background information from the food industry, because in her Netflix series Nadiya introduces creative minds who share their culinary passion.
Sources used: netflix.com, amazon.de, vox.de