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Chef's Table Season 5 (2018) — four episodes, watch online on iFILM. Each chef, each city, each episode asks why a kitchen can matter beyond the plate.
Cristina Martínez cooks Philadelphia's most respected barbacoa from family recipes passed across generations — and has turned that reputation into a platform for undocumented immigrants' rights. Her story runs well past the dining room. Musa Dağdeviren runs Istanbul's Çiya as a rescue operation: he hunts down regional Turkish dishes on the verge of extinction and cooks them back into circulation before the recipes are gone. Bo Songvisava opened a sustainable restaurant in Bangkok out of frustration — authentic Thai cuisine was being crowded out by tourist-ready shortcuts, and she wanted no part of that. Albert Adrià spent years as the creative force behind El Bulli alongside his brother Ferran, then built an entire constellation of genre-bending restaurants across Barcelona, each one a different experiment. Season 5 is the most politically aware chapter in the series — these chefs have reasons that run deeper than flavor. Stream Chef's Table Season 5 on iFILM.
4 episodes
S5·E1Cristina Martínez
Drawing on her family's rich barbacoa tradition, Cristina Martínez has become a Philadelphia food star -- and a voice for undocumented immigrants.
S5·E2Musa Dağdeviren
At Istanbul's Çiya, "food anthropologist" Musa Dagdeviren meticulously re-creates regional Turkish dishes in a bid to keep them from going extinct.
S5·E3Bo Songvisava
Frustrated by the dearth of authentic Thai cuisine, Bo Songvisava revives bold, complex local flavors in her sustainable Bangkok restaurant.
S5·E4Albert Adrià
After years as the creative director of El Bulli, innovator Albert Adrià now presides over an "amusement park" of genre-bending Barcelona eateries.
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