Omnivore

This is not the kind of show you can turn on and listen to - you must pay attention and read the subtitles because there are stories from various cultures and countries - none speaks the same language.

However, that aside, it's very interesting content, beautiful imagery, excellent music, and the personal stories are touching, relatable.

Each episode centers on the culinary anthology of a specific ingredient or food source, that is universally meaningful. And each character we are introduced to is passionate about their contribution to the food we eat, how to preserve its heritage, how to expand our thinking about simple ingredients we use often.

Don't get me wrong, AppleTV+ has some excellent content like Severance, For All Mankind and Presumed Innocent. But even with their top tier stuff, there's this whiff of something noxious that I couldn't quite put my finger on.

This docu-series perfectly encapsulates it: that odor is the smug condescension of the global one percent. Hosted by some celebrity chef from a fancy restaurant few people could ever afford to dine at, it trots through some popular foods, focused on just a tiny fragment of the whole industry, the fancy pants artisanal froo-froo segment.

It's lovely that some dude in Rwanda is making coffee by hand, for what, $100 a pound? Obviously this has no relevance to the common herd, watching grocery prices soar and thinking about what they have to cut back.

The episode about salt could have been fascinating, especially if it did anything more than, once again, talk about the teeny industry of making salt by hand. How about the long, fascinating history of salt in various human cultures? We barely get any of that.

Netflix (which in general doesn't have anything near the quality of AppleTV+ anymore) made a good series along the same lines called Rotten. If you're frustrated by Omnivore, check that out. Eschewing the prissy approach, Netflix takes us to the gang wars of the avocado trade, the cratering French wine industry, and corruption in the garlic industry. Much more real and relevant.

"Omnivore" is a captivating new series on Apple TV+, a visual feast that dives deep into the stories behind essential food ingredients, with educational and entertaining episodes on chilies, tuna, salt, rice, coffee, corn, bananas, and pork. The cinematography is stunning, and I was often so mesmerized by the visuals, I had to rewind to catch the dialogue we missed. Renowned chef and host René Redzepi guides viewers through each episode with his mellifluous voice making even the most commonplace ingredients seem significant. Each episode serves as a deep dive, exploring cultural relevance and the intricate connections in our lives. The series transforms the mundane into the extraordinary, reminding us of the importance of the ingredients we often take for granted.

1. This is boring, for each topic they explain five minutes and then they show like 20 minutes of repetitive shots 2. History is plain and reductionist It was expected we would know the history of each food, but this just show a commercial look of the item Imagine that for chili they talked about paprika and Tabasco, there is a lot more.

Mexico was not mentioned, even this is the country which consume more chilly and the crazy relationship of Aztecs with it. Not to mention the great variety of chilies they have.

3. Beautiful shots I can say that photograph was so nice, but it is useless without a genuine story to tell.

The name and introduction before watching this TV series,i thought the content was going to be very interesting and meaningful. I thought each episode is to introduce the growth process of the most commonly eaten food in different parts of the world, its nutrition, different tastes and human effects brought by different people and different cooking methods in different regions. The documentary introduction also said"We are what we eat" which is compeletely my opinion. But in this series,we don't see much of these. And we don't see periods of professional cooking process and food raw materials are different all over the world, we just see very very slow picture, people walk around, say some nonsense,like in the chili episode,A family in Serbia,They just roast peppers in the yard and make sauce. Like every other family in this world can do,imean,this is good,but not making a big meaning in a se Ries introducing human's food. And there went some nonsense words again,more and more young people do N't want to do this. I tell you why.tradition is tradition,but it gotta to be a meaning of being kept .Only good meaningful tradition will be left behind. The production process of this simple made chili sauce is less than a few tenths of the taste of the machine, and it is not as delicious as the pepper factory, and it can't make money that's definitel Y going to be eliminated,And introduced some chilis in Thailand.not introducing the growing process,not filmi Ng how they cook the fried frogs with this local chili,just filming some nonsense about they eati Ng and saying their love story,not even some shots of the dishes. Just as a word what i saw in another Review:commercial.i can understand the commercials in tv series,but your resturant is that type tha T serving a little serving in each dishes,and selling high price. Only introducing 4 chilis in whole episod E and you saying that chili planted in your resturant is the hottest in the world,not at all.and eve Ry costmer and cook takes a bite. That's not some interesting plot.just like i saw the series:the bear, Very high scores and dozens awards. But I can't watch it after watching it for more than ten minutes. Extremely slow and meaningless shots, dim light and sad music, you call it art, truth is that's just nonsense. Just like the fifth episode of Iberian black pigs, they proudly introduce that they only need to eat, sleep and play a day without thinking about other things. It seems that this is an advantage, but which pig in the world does not only need to eat, drink and sleep. Those pigs do have a lot of space to move but not worth That highest price in the world which is totally IQ tax. Complicate simple things, that's what they're doing.