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Name: Cooked
Released: 2016-02-19
Cast: Michael Pollan

2016
1 Season
8.0 (3,215)

Cooked is a four-part Netflix docu-series hosted by award-winning author and journalist Michael Pollan that premiered in February 2016. Based on his book of the same name, Cooked takes a deep dive into the cultural, social, and emotional significance of cooking and how it shapes our relationship with food.

Pollan is an authoritative voice on food and agricultural policy and has written numerous books on the subject, including The Omnivore

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Seasons

4. Earth

February 19, 2016

Discover how microbes help turn raw ingredients into delicacies like chocolate and cheese as Pollan tackles the mysterious process of fermentation.

3. Air

February 19, 2016

Visit food labs and Moroccan fields as Pollan delves into the science of bread-making and the nature of gluten.

2. Water

February 19, 2016

Pollan looks to the kitchens of India for a lesson in the value of pot cooking and examines the consequences of eating highly processed food.

1. Fire

February 19, 2016

With help from Aboriginal hunters and a barbecue pit master, Pollan shows how fire shaped human gastronomy, and weighs our duty to the animals we eat.

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