The Cooking Show

• Movie
• 2021
• 17m
• Documentary

The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we like watching the making of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat? Dirty Furniture’s jam-packed video essay is a rollercoaster ride through the history of the genre, at once a staple of television viewing and a hotpot of shifting perspectives and sociocultural values.

Director

Elizabeth Glickfeld

Starring

Massimo Bottura, Julia Child, Martha Stewart, Nigella Lawson