Food Odyssey is a new style of documentary about “Food”, a mutual interest of 6 billion world citizens. From the Sahara to the North Pole, the program travels all over the world to reveal the unlimited human creativity and the secret of civilization contained in food. Directed by Lee Wook-jung, a chef from Le Cordon Bleu and the winner of Peabody Awards for the film Noodle Road, Food Odyssey will meet your intellectual needs and also satisfy your five senses at the same time. Finding amazing world of cooking, let’s start adventures to the living cultural sites of human food!
Episode 1 Bread and Circus
The hidden stories about ‘Bread’, which has fed human race for a long time. Why has bread become the main staple for us among others? How great was the invention of leavened bread in human history? From a political tool to an art form, bread itself has a long history. Let’s look see what bread has been to human beings.
Episode 2 Spice, the Scent from Paradise
Spices stimulate our tip of the tongue with their captivating scents and colors. For the ancient Greeks, spices were the materials to reach their Gods. For the medieval Europeans, they were the most priceless property to bring about wars. Why do people keep chasing for spices? The old history and secrets contained in spices such as Saffron, black pepper are now about to unfold.
Episode 3 Meat, the Gift of Life
Meat is an ideal food that has long been the object of human’s desire. When did the stock raising begin? Why the only 28 species becomes domesticated among lots of animals? Seeing the lives of the Komi, a tribe in a frozen land, the film tries to trace the origin of meat eating. Further, the film introduces what the dinner of the English aristocrat was like as well as the history of slaughtering.
每个人都有过相似的经验,就是疑问“人究竟为了吃而生存还是为了生存而吃”。“吃东西”是直接连着我们的生命,也是对个别人的价值观连着重要的意义。凭借上述的观点,以人类的食物和食文化为题材的《料理人类》不是不仅仅是个单纯的有关料理节目。
誰でも一度は、「食べるために生きるのか?」それとも「生きるために食べるのか?」と悩んだことがあるだろう。「食べる」ことは、私たちの生命と直結するばかりでなく、一人一人の価値観にもつながる重要な意味を持つ。そういう意味において、人類の食べ物と食文化を扱う「フードオデッセイ」は、単なる料理プログラムではない。