''Why does the chef just get to be super mean? Why does Dan Barber just get to yell at all of his employees about asparagus?' I thought it was pretty ripe for parody' — 'Gods of Food' creator rekhalshankar on food shows
and the gourmands who flock to their restaurants. Shankar and her team nail the aesthetic of the original show while riffing on some of the major themes that bubble up throughout— particularly the ideas about authenticity versus innovation, and the egos that drive both chefs and the diners who obsess over their food. Each episode also features hilarious cameos from real-world chefs — including Hugh Acheson, Jet Tila, and Alison Roman — playing versions of themselves.
Earlier this summer, Eater hopped on the phone with Shankar to discuss the inspiration behind this series, the challenges of parodyingChef’s Table: I’m a huge food show fan. I watch all the baking and cooking shows, and my job as a comedy writer is to come up with ideas for long-form shows. A co-worker of mine hates this kind of pretentious food stuff, and we were just kind of chatting about it, and we came up with this idea of, “What if we did a satirical take on, and I also hate it.
You know, I do love all these shows too, and I love some of the things that they have to say about creating something from nothing and really innovating in a space where it feels like everything’s already happened. So trying to marry those two things was what the development process was like. Okay, we can make fun of molecular gastronomy. But what is the real heart of someone who’s like, “I want to futz with molecular gastronomy”? It’s, “Oh, I want to make something that impresses you.
What’s interesting through the series is exploring the hypocrisies that lie within the chef’s world of “new and different is good” or “old and traditional is best,” and just kind of making fun of it.One of the challenges, weirdly, was that some of it seemed too real. For the molecular gastronomy episode, with some of the ideas that we were pitching, it was like, “Actually, someone did make something like that.” And I thought, ”Oh, that sounds crazy to me.
I think the first season had a lot of problems that they then fixed in the second season. Like in the first season, they covered mostly white men and one Asian woman, and that was very apparent to me when watching it, like, “Oh this show isn’t for me — let’s exalt these angry white men who got their way.
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