David Gelb, Creator of "Chef's Table" and "Chef's Table: Legends"

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Foodies Alert: Phil and David welcome David Gelb, the gifted director, writer, producer who has cooked up "Chef's Table" and "Chef's Table: Legends," among other great shows. Over delicious sandwiches from Larchmont Village Wine, Spirits & Cheese, Gelb discusses his distinguished family background, his groundbreaking 2011 feature documentary, "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," which became the template for so much of his extraordinary work, including the acclaimed 2021 documentary "Wolfgang," about previous "Naked Lunch" guest Wolfgang Puck. For more on "Chef's Table," go here. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com.

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0:00.0	David, guess what?
0:04.1	What, sir?
0:04.8	We have a very, very special guest today, one of the pioneers of a certain type of art form.
0:12.0	How about that?
0:12.7	And a guy who helped your Netflix success story become even possible.
0:17.3	I owe him a sandwich.
0:19.5	And he's very young to be a legend, but he's sort of a chef's table
0:23.9	legend of a different sort. He is the legend of chef's table legends and all of chefs's table.
0:30.2	Ladies and gentlemen, David Gett.
0:45.3	Let's fill the beans, chew the fat, food for thought and jokes on tap, talking with our mouths full having fun.
0:50.3	A piece of cake and humble pie, serving up a slice alive to leave the dressing on the side
0:58.5	It's naked lunch
1:02.0	Clothing option
1:04.0	Wait before we drank a wine everybody having a good time
1:12.0	Except you
1:13.6	You were talking about the end of the world
1:22.3	Can I ask you about
1:23.9	I am a fan of chef's table
1:26.2	But I think the coolest fan to me, Bono said something
1:32.6	about Chef's Table. Do you know about this? Nope. I think Bono said that when he was injured and hurt,
1:38.2	at one point he had a bad injury, he became obsessed with Chef's Table. And I thought,
1:43.7	now that is, the idea of Bono, binge viewing, blowing through, you know,
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