Best Food/Cooking DVD's Non-Fiction
Not asking for "Big night" or "Chocolat"
Rather any non fiction DVD's that are cool for people like you and me!
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11 Comments:
I'm gonna go back to my recommendation from the Christmas list topic and throw "Decoding Ferran Adria" on the list here too. It's a look at the mind behind El Bulli and it's hosted by Tony Bourdain. I've seen it once and keeping meaning to add it to my DVD collection.
It's not exactly food/cooking so much as people, but you might dig the Chef's Story series. Keller, Boulud, Pepin, Bourdain, Samuelsson, lots of big names - I think there's like two dozen of them (it was a PBS series). The DVDs are around twenty bucks a pop though, which could make it pricey to own them all.
corycm at 4:18PM on 10/19/07
If Alton Brown's Good Eats has a DVD series...I'd get that for sure!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 5:27PM on 10/19/07
if it says Alton Brown, it's good in my book!
Traveller at 5:45PM on 10/19/07
The Julia Child DVDs are amazing and culled from different periods of her French Chef series. Do not miss the suckling pig episode in the first volume.
GregWA at 7:21PM on 10/19/07
Might be on the dorky side of cooking dvds but I am a huge fan of the America's Test Kitchen PBS Series, there are 6 seasons available on DVD and I enjoy watching not only the recipes but their tasting lab, and equipment recommendations. Check them out from your local library if you are interested but don't want to buy.
bobcatsteph3 at 9:18PM on 10/19/07
corycm your recommendation on my other posting promoted me to ask this question... thanks!!!
Kbear919 at 11:10PM on 10/19/07
I own the first season of Good Eats and it's really good. And funny. Funny because Alton tries to make it funny and funny because Alton is really different in those early episodes! Sometimes if you order the set from the Food Network's website, they'll throw in a book as well...
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 9:46AM on 10/20/07
My reference to Alton Brown = "The television equivalent of attending cooking school."
The Culinary Institute of America has a whole bunch of DVD offerings on their site. http://www.ciachef.edu/
chiff0nade at 11:50AM on 10/20/07
'Sandwhiches You WIll Like' is an awesome PBS special
coolname at 10:20PM on 10/25/07
I've rented PBS' The Meaning of Food quite a few times from Netflix. I love it so much I tried to break the law and make a copy. (I'm innocent...it didn't work.) I also have Food for the Ancestors next up in my queue, a documentary on the feasts of the Day of the Dead. Oh, and how about The Future of Food....reveals the creepy stuff going on between big business, government, and agriculture.
Potluckcraft at 9:20AM on 10/26/07
And, I know this isn't nonfiction, but I have to suggest Eating: A Very Serious Comedy About Women and Food, a film by the odd Henry Jaglom. It's a mostly improvised film where the women discuss their relationships with food. It's extremely dated, offbeat, and a little stilted, but also hysterical because of those very qualities. Anyone see this?
Potluckcraft at 9:27AM on 10/26/07