As the Momofuku empire continues to increase, chef/restaurateur David Chang is stepping lower back from the kitchen a chunk to recognition on some television tasks, consisting of a modern-day series for Netflix known as Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
In this travel series, Chang will explore a distinct city with one celeb visitor in keeping with the episode. “There’s something about touring with a person that opens you up,” Chang says in an announcement approximately the display. “Being far from all the craziness of each day lifestyles, you spend long days collectively in a strange vicinity with not anything to do however wander the road, percentage meals, and communicate. That’s what BLD is all approximately—gaining knowledge of greater approximately ourselves, our buddies, and the human beings we come upon out inside the world. Plus, of the route, the ridiculously delicious food we share.”
Morgan Neville, Chang’s collaborator on Ugly Delicious, is also working with this chef in this new series that’s slated to optimal on Netflix this fall. The chef/restaurateur is likewise getting ready a brand new season of Ugly Delicious; in addition to Family Style, a Hulu speak show with Chrissy Teigen that’s being co-produced by way of Chang’s Majordomo Media and Vox Media Studio. No most efficient dates had been announced for these series but.
In other meals TV information, Roy Choi and Jon Favreau’s fantastic cooking collection Chef Show will go back to Netflix this autumn with a brand new batch of episodes. And at the same time as Samin Nosrat’s docuseries Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat stays certainly one of Netflix’s maximum famous new food indicates, reputedly the amusement company is still “waiting for her pitch for a 2nd collection.” Hollywood Reporter’s new food TV cowl story additionally includes a few thrilling information about the enterprise side of those productions — Gordon Ramsay makes an ungodly amount of cash for each of his Fox suggests if you had been wondering — in addition to this intriguing blind item:
One unscripted agent notes that there have been “hundreds of thousands” of exceeded pitches of Bourdain knockoffs given that his death and several resources point out one excessive-profile food character who unsuccessfully campaigned as a Bourdain substitute to No Reservations manufacturers Zero Point Zero within some weeks of his demise. But imitators are considered character non grata in an enterprise nonetheless very protective of the icon’s legacy.
Who is the meals famous person who pitched himself as a replacement for Anthony Bourdain following the Parts Unknown megastar’s tragic death last year? There virtually should simplest be maybe 5 folks who fit this description. And whilst we may additionally by no means know the reality approximately who that “high-profile meals persona” was, it’s at the least really reassuring to recognize that the food TV head honchos rejected these pitches for the sake of keeping Bourdain’s legacy.
