BONUS: Rene Redzepi talks about Omnivore, his new TV show

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Food is never just food. That's the idea behind Omnivore, an Apple TV+ series that peels back the layers on eight common foodstuffs — coffee, corn, salt, rice, bananas, chilies, pork, and tuna.

Narrated by Noma chef Rene Redzepi, the show serves up gorgeous images and fascinating characters. But it goes way beyond that. Each episode explores the cultural, historical, and socioeconomic context of a single ingredient, whether that's the connection between coffee cultivation and the 1994 Rwandan genocide or the impact of climate change on rice cultivation in Kerala, India or how a family of Serbian pepper farmers grows peppers in an effort to make exceptional paprika.

Redzepi discusses the making of Omnivore with Elvis Mitchell on The Treatment. You can hear more episodes of The Treatment here.

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0:00.0	I'm Evan Klyman, and today I'm bringing you a bonus interview from our colleagues over at the
0:05.6	Treatment. Every week on The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell hosts deep conversations about creative
0:11.4	inspiration. He explores the worlds of entertainment, fashion sports, the arts, and in this episode,
0:18.1	he sits down with chef Renee Rizepi.
0:26.6	You probably know Renee as the chef behind the world-renowned restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen.
0:33.6	He's also the co-creator and host of Omnivore, a new food documentary series on Apple TV, which is the subject of this episode of The Treatment.
0:39.6	I hope you enjoy it. Here's Elvis.
0:44.6	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:59.1	It's The Treatment. It's the Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. What would it be like if you were to take a world's most celebrated chefs and restaurateurs and have them put together a tasting
1:04.3	menu for you? Well, it would probably be like the Apple TV Plus series Omnivore, which
1:09.9	takes us eight episodes, which in effect feels like
1:13.1	a tasting menu to me. The narrator and central figure and the fan behind Noma, Renee
1:19.6	Red Zeppi, is here to talk about the show. First of all, thanks so much for being here.
1:22.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:24.2	And it does feel like a tasting menu to me. There are starches, there are foods
1:28.4	that contain multitudes, like corn, or, or, because I mean, I, Chile. Chile or rice. I mean,
1:36.6	it's funny. And the show does feel like that to me, is if somebody said to you, I'm invited
1:41.8	into your kitchen and you would put together a tasting menu for me.
1:45.4	Yeah, well, it's eight ingredients.
1:47.5	They're varied.
1:48.5	There's rice, and we all eat rice.
1:51.0	We all eat corn.
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