What documentaries about food are worth seeing?

Key projects of CCTV, * * * seven episodes. The theme revolves around China people's pursuit of good food and life, and links China's food ecology with specific characters' stories.

Episode 1: The Gift of Nature

As a gourmet, the delicious food is certainly worth pondering, but where does the food come from? There is no doubt that we get all the food from nature. Before we go into the kitchen and go to the dining table, let's go back to nature and see the original gift she gave us.

Episode 2: The Story of Staple Food

Staple food is the main food on the table and the main source of energy needed by people. From the natural grains used by people in ancient times to the rich and mouth-watering foods on people's tables today, a colorful and varied world of staple foods is presented to you.

The third episode: the enlightenment of transformation

Fermented bean curd, fermented soybean, yellow rice wine and pickles all have one thing in common, and they all have a special flavor, which is rich in flavor. This smell is the result of the joint efforts of people and microorganisms. This technique is called "fermentation"

Episode 4: The Taste of Time

Pickled food, air-dried dry goods, sauce soaking and freezing are the oldest food preservation methods in China. Today, people in China still like this kind of food.

Episode 5: The Secret of the Kitchen

Compared with the traditional western food culture of "eating raw and eating separately", China cuisine pays more attention to color, aroma, taste, shape and container. In the pursuit of this series of artistic conception, all the chefs in China, like magic masters, can play the trick of "attacking with water and fire" to perfection and practice it for 8,000 years.

Episode 6: Harmony of Five Flavors

China's diet is called "taste", which is the theory of the soul. Different raw materials, different condiments, different modulation techniques and different seasoning masters lead food to a more delicious realm. Salty and fresh, sweet and salty, sweet and sour, sour and hot, spicy, spicy, bitter and delicious ... Every food carefully cooked by China people presents a different taste and temperament.

Episode 7: Our Field

The last episode will lead the audience to complete a return-from the dinner table to the earth. Starting from the delicious food on the dining table, we turned our attention to the vast fields producing all kinds of delicious raw materials, explored the sources of delicious food, and how they were cultivated by human beings in various ways, highlighting the ecological and environmental protection agricultural production mode. Only in this way can we provide a vital quality guarantee for delicious food-high quality and cleanliness.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

David gelb's documentary about sushi. He is from new york to the core! He loved sushi since he was a child and was moved by Jiro Ono's professionalism. He simply went to Japan to take pictures with his camera.

Jiro Ono, 86, is the oldest Samsung chef in the world and is known as the "God of Sushi". Its status in Japan is lofty, and its reputation as "the first sushi person" is spread all over the world. Throughout his life, he has been grasping sushi, always demanding himself and his disciples with the highest standards, observing the dining situation of the guests, and fine-tuning sushi to ensure that the guests enjoy extremely delicious food. Even in order to protect the hands of sushi creation, he always wears gloves when he is not working, and even sleeps tirelessly.

His sushi restaurant "Jijiro Jizukiya" is well known, and every step has been carefully calculated from ingredients, production to ready-to-eat. This small store, hidden in the basement of Tokyo office building, has won the highest evaluation of three stars in the Michelin guide of the gourmet Bible for two consecutive years. Known as a food worth waiting in line for a lifetime.

Noodle road

"Noodles" is a simple, delicious, nutritious and healthy food, and it is also one of the most common staple foods on the table. This documentary is to pursue the development of noodles all the way and let the audience appreciate the different natural environment and cultural differences in different regions.

With its mouth-watering "noodles", it tells us the unique noodle culture behind "noodles" and brings us brand-new visual enjoyment.

This documentary won several awards in the 36th Korea Broadcasting Awards. The Road to Noodles took three years from preparation to shooting. The film crew traveled all over Chinese mainland, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Bhutan, Turkey, Italy and other European and Asian countries, and comprehensively displayed the pasta culture in various places with all kinds of conclusive archaeological evidence and documents.