Special Report: Jeremiah Tower - The Last Magnificent (2016)

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to Lydia Tenaglia about her film Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent (2016), a documentary about culinary pioneer Jeremiah Tower and his travels and travails.
Ms. Tenaglia also shares stories of her early career; working on medical reality shows (Trauma: Life in the ER) and her role in bringing Anthony Bourdain to television.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.5	When there's something wonderful to be done, if you're not right there with me, then get out of the way.
0:15.4	Most people would not know who Jeremiah Tower is.
0:18.6	He was on the front of magazines. He was not all over Europe.
0:21.3	He hadn't seen his kind before. He was a natural. A superstar.
0:25.2	And this was a chef?
0:26.9	He certainly is considered a father of the American cuisine.
0:31.7	We should know who changed the world. We should know their names.
0:39.5	1972, Jeremiah Tower walks in a shape of Nice.
0:42.3	It was Alice Waters' little dream restaurant.
0:45.8	The first thing they did is celebrate local ingredients.
0:48.1	I wrote the menu, the California regional dinner.
0:50.7	It exploded.
0:52.6	Complete re-evaluation of not just American food and ingredients, but food.
0:58.7	Then all hell broke loose, you know.
1:00.6	Alice showed me the first book, the Chapinese cookbook, and she had taken all the
1:04.8	dinners I had dreamed up, written the menus for, and cooked, and said that she did it.
1:09.3	I'm not coming back.
1:11.2	He became something bigger.
1:13.0	Jeremiah at Stars defined what a modern American restaurant could be.
1:19.4	It was at one point arguably the best in the world.
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