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- 2016
- Netflix
- 2016
- Netflix
Summary The documentary series from Alex Gibney and Michael Pollan focuses on the four elements--Air, Earth, fire, and water--and how they are used to make food around the world.
- 2016
- Netflix
- 2016
- Netflix
Cooked
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 19, 2016
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
7.5
Summary The documentary series from Alex Gibney and Michael Pollan focuses on the four elements--Air, Earth, fire, and water--and how they are used to make food around the world.
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Mr. Pollan’s messages are important to hear and are engagingly presented in this series. Still, there’s a disconnect that’s never addressed.... The world’s poorest people--some seen in idyllic imagery here--have to devote long hours to basic subsistence, and the world’s relatively well off have the luxury to indulge in artisanal cooking. Yet applying his ideas across the whole range of human circumstances is a trickier subject than this pretty series wants to tackle.
More than being a definitive explanation of the issues it discusses, Cooked serves more as a launching pad for discussion, offering viewers discussion topics, if not enough information to exactly have that discussion. Most of the time, Cooked does just what it says Americans shouldn’t: It heaps too much on its plate.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.5
82% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.5
82% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
18% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Jigsaw Productions
- Netflix Studios
- Netflix
Initial Release Date: Feb 19, 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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Awards
International Documentary Association
• 1 Nomination