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Cooked (2016)

Cooked poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Michael Pollan hosts a documentary series that examines the history and importance of cooking. It looks at how preparing food connects people to each other and to the natural world.

educationalcontemplativewarmgroundedexploratoryinformativeconnecting

What happens

Cooked is a 2016 original Netflix documentary series created by Alex Gibney based on the book by Michael Pollan with the same title, starring Michael Pollan and Isaac Pollan. It explains the history and different aspects of cooking, and its ability to connect us as human beings. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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