Chef's Table Pizzeria Bianco Netflix

 

Chef's Table Pizzeria Bianco Netflix 

Why Netflix Chose Pizza As The Focus For This Season Of Chef's Table

If you've ever had pizza in Italy, you'll understand the difference between the evolution of pizza in the U.S. and the history of pizza in Italy. It's the type of experience that will make you want to book a flight — not for gondolas in Venice or the Colosseum in Rome, but simply to go back to that little restaurant where you tried your first authentic pizza.

Chef's Table: Pizza

Netflix released all six episodes of "Chef's Table: Pizza" on Wednesday, September 7. The series follows culinary icons from around the world who are "redefining gourmet food with innovative dishes and tantalizing desserts" (per Netflix). If you've ever thought of pizza as just a takeaway food or something to grab after a night of drinking, this season may change your mind. Each episode focuses on one chef who has taken pizza to a whole new level, not only in America but also in Italy — the birthplace of pizza (via History).

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Chef’s Table has pretty much established a tone and style over its many seasons, and the Pizza season continues that tradition. It certainly has been an influence on shows like Taste The Nation With Padma Lakshmi and others.

Our Take: One of the things we’ve always appreciated about the Chef’s Table series is that it’s more concerned with the lives of the people making the food than the actual food itself. Sure, there are still lots of lovingly-shot views of the food in question. But the often extraordinary lives of the people who make that food, and how passionate they are about making that food, is what’s really interesting. Chef’s Table: Pizza continues that tradition.

While the series starts in a pretty obvious spot — Chris Bianco has been winning James Beard Awards for a couple of decades now — the show is going to some less obvious pizza hotspots. Also profiled will be Gabriele Bonci from Rome, Ann Kim from Minneapolis, Franco Pepe from Caiazzo, Italy, Yoshihiro Imai from Kyoto, Japan, and Sarah Minnick from Portland, Oregon. Yes, they visit a couple of spots in Italy. But they bypass some well-known pizza areas in the US, like New York, Chicago or New Haven, because they’re going where the stories are more interesting.

The story about Bianco leaves out a few details, like the fact that he went to Phoenix when he won plane tickets to anywhere in the US, but it makes up for it with some emotional moments where Chris talks about how he almost had to give up pizza making due to “baker’s lung,” and how he’s had to slow down and delegate more, which has also opened himself to enjoy more of the pleasures of life — including marriage and two young daughters at 60. We see him touring the local farms where he gets his ingredients and he also dispels the myth that the Southwest isn’t an abundant region, despite its arid climate.

Sex and Skin: Just some very sexy shots of pizza.

Parting Shot: Bianco looks out over a sunset and talks about how he thinks coming out to the desert changed his life in the best way.

Sleeper Star: Bianco’s wife Mia, mainly because she acknowledges that “Chris has this really gruff exterior, and he says ‘fuck’ a lot, but he is so, so sweet. He wants to make people feel good, and that’ll keep him up at night.”