René Redzepi, Shawn Levy, and Lorraine Nicholson on The Treat

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes René Redzepi, acclaimed chef and co-owner of the world famous restaurant Noma. He is currently hosting the Apple TV+ series Omnivore. Then, blockbuster director Shawn Levy joins to talk about the newest addition to the MCU — Deadpool & Wolverine. And on The Treat, writer Lorraine Nicholson shares the “operatic” film that turned her on to the language of cinema.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:13.0	It's the Treatment.
0:15.4	It's the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:17.1	What would it be like if you would have taken to the world's most celebrated chefs and restaurateurs and have them put together a tasting menu for you?
0:25.4	Well, it would probably be like the Apple TV Plus series Omnivore,
0:29.6	which takes us eight episodes, which in effect feels like a tasting menu to me.
0:34.5	The narrator and central figure and the man behind Noma, René Redzeppe, is here to talk about the show.
0:41.3	First of all, thanks so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me.
0:44.3	And it does feel like a tasting menu to me. There are starches. There are foods that contain multitudes, like corn, or, or, because I mean, I...
0:53.3	Chile? Chile. Or rice. I mean, mean it's funny and the show does feel like that
0:58.7	to me is if somebody said to you you i'm invited into your kitchen and you would put together a
1:03.3	tasting menu for me yeah well it's eight ingredients they're varied there's rice and we all eat
1:10.0	and we all eat corn and i mean we eat corn in ways that we don't even know we're eating corn. When you swallow a pill, there's corn in it. Most of the snacks you eat, there's corn in it. And so on and so forth. I mean, your gas might even be made from corn sometimes. Certainly, yeah. And but also, so many of these items that are part of the show each episode have a multiplicity of uses.
1:33.0	And I just find so thinking about how much this show is about the wealth of information that comes with food.
1:40.3	I mean, the salt episode alone.
1:42.6	And you say at the beginning of that episode, you just used to find table salt and it had no idea.
1:48.8	I mean, just the historical stuff that the Chinese government once controlled the movement of salt throughout the world.
1:56.6	Yeah, salt today is, you know, in our part of the world, in the cold Nordics, we throw it on the ground to melt ice.
2:04.3	But it used to be more valuable than gold.
2:07.0	Salt is a mineral that's essential in our bodies.
2:09.7	If we don't have it, we die.
2:11.9	It's just all around us, omnipresent, disposable.
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