Omnivore showcases local food stories, and experiences.
Omnivore showcases local food stories, and experiences
Don’t watch this show if you’re trying to save money. Or if you’re hungry.
It only makes you want to get in a tuk-tuk and fly around Bangkok’s hawker-lined street stalls. Or cruise down the Ganges in a boat, or travel to the deep south and smash fried chicken and Tabasco.
Omnivore is the recently released eight-course docuseries of 50-minute episodes that reinforces the way food is an inherently important part of how we live and travel.
It elevates a destination so much. Like, so much.
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The Omnivore series scrutinises different ingredients in every episode – chilli, pork, rice, salt, coffee, banana, corn and tuna, documenting their social and culinary impact.
You could think of this show as a little like one of those 'exploring the city' food tours, only a much deeper, global version of it. Rene Redzepi is our well-qualified guide, and the Danish chef of NOMA fame (who is our well-qualified guide) has a passion for food that is perfect for the show.
Your appetite's about to get cultured.
Are you starving yet?
This is making what's in our fridge feel very basic.
The food is the star, but so is this guy, Rene Redzepi.
“When you eat, you are eating culture,” says Redzepi.
“Food is never just food. Our greatest triumphs and challenges are all reflected in the meals we share.”
And it’s so true.
Corn like you've never seen it before.
Courtesy of Redzepi we end up in tiny tuna-fishing villages in Western Spain, paddling downstream next to banana plantations in India, talking to coffee growers in Rwanda or walking the improbably precarious paths of Peru’s terraced salt flats.
This series is like a passport stamp for your tastebuds.
Every catch tells a different story.
There is beauty to be found in the way a single ingredient can take on a completely different meaning, depending on its use through different backgrounds, cultures and more.
“Food is never just food. Our greatest triumphs and challenges are all reflected in the meals we share.”
The way chillies, for example, are consumed so differently in Bangkok, Louisiana and Serbia is the focus of the rip-roaring first episode, and an insight into how people can take a simple equation and end up with completely different answers from their workings—and all can be very right.
For the Serbians, they are central to keeping a small village afloat. And in Bangkok, chillies appear to be the key ingredient of a marriage.
Watch, learn, drool, repeat.
We just know the temptation to rub their eyes is so strong rn.
In Melbourne, I drink my coffee from the café down the road every morning and think nothing more than how fucking good it is, but in Rwanda, Omnivore explores how the coffee industry, once marred by colonial exploitation and giving way to deep suffering, is now a key element in the country's journey towards growth and redefinition.
Your front-row seat to the most delicious journey ever filmed.
That'll turn into a lot of go-go juice.
When we travel, we rarely think about what has taken place prior. When we tuck into a rogan josh, we’re mostly unaware that the dish was originally thought up by the Persian-influenced Mughals or is popular in the Kashmir region due to the abundance of chillies and the comparatively cooler temperatures than the rest of India. We just want that curry hit, ya know?
Proving food isn't just about eating, it's also about adventure.
We don’t think about how bananas have shaped the geopolitical situation in Latin America, or how families have depended on them for survival in Kerala, India. We’re just here for that potassium, bruh.
You'll need a bib for this one.
We could all do better to consider the foods we eat in general, but this is especially the case when travelling. There’s a story behind every single thing you eat. You just have to listen.
,get in the know Mushrooms can never be overcooked. Like, ever. Not even if you leave 'em boiling while you complete a 1,000+ piece puzzle and learn a new language.
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