I really enjoyed this series! What a fascinating and fun conversation on the clash between tradition and innovation in food! It touches on the way that food is reinterpreted and recontextualized across cultures and the cyclical nature of change -- does authenticity stunt innovation or does innovation harm autheticity? There's also a very interesting conversation on the politics of food and how food always comes back to history and the sociopolitical. Overall, this series is really interesting and really fun. I would love for a second season of this show.

I really tried to like this show because I like the idea behind it, but David Chang is absolutely insufferable. I gave up on the show at episode 3, where he kept bringing up old stories of his mom embarrassing him with her home cooking, then said, to the face of someone cooking a home dinner for him, "Doesn't matter if it doesn't taste good, it's the intent that's great." Chang also has a weird superiority complex about Asian food, which is weird considering that, according to the way he talks about his mom's cooking, he evidently didn't like it growing up and considered it a source of embarrassment. This is such a pitiful contrast to someone like Roy Choi (from "The Chef Show") who embraces both his roots and his upbringing in LA in a way that is inclusive of all the cultures he meets. What an ass. He clearly thinks highly of himself and thinks that the only real value of food is as seen through the prism of a Michelin-starred chef. You could see it in the Tacos episode, where, as always, Mexicans are folklorized as poor but honest cooks, while only American-trained chefs can truly coax the maximum out of their ingredients or comment on the greatness of Mexican cuisine. This is also the guy who, while sitting with a famous NYC pizza chef in a historical Brooklyn institution, orders Domino's to prove some kind of bizarre point. It's all so weird and awkward because you can tell people want to stay polite for the camera. It's all so sad and infuriating. I can't.

A racist korean, it's not like they're uncommon. Momafuckyou. It's an okay series but turn's very anti white to words the end. The series within it's self good. I just think David Chang was the wrong chef to centre the series around.

Only watched the first episode, but as an Italian myself I have to say I was deeply interested and entertained. I probably am the weirdest and less traditionalist of all italians so I'm a little biased to the topic of the episode (Pizza) but it really was food for thought. I can't say for further episodes, but if it's anything like the pilot there is no reason for which anyone interested in cuisine wouldn't be interested. Great, diverse show.