As we come off a dreadful year, we are reminded of the few things that still did well during the pandemic – mainly, streaming platforms. OTTs like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Apple TV+, etc. experienced a major boom in subscriptions which led to major increase in profits due to the (ongoing) global pandemic in 2020. With this huge explosion of new users, major streaming platforms diversified their original content by foraying into various different types of content such as gaming, food, lifestyle, fashion, etc. And thanks to Covid-19, Netflix gained a massive foothold in the food genre category.
Netflix was already on a roll with multiple food series such as Taco Chronicles – a look at the various types of popular Tacos and their history, Street Food: Asia – explore nine colourful cities in Asia and its street food and The Chef’s Table – a show which features a few of the world’s most renowned chefs who share their inspiration, stories and philosophy behind their style of food, among many others. But this again is just one style of food series. Netflix is also known for its reality cooking competition – The Final Table.
Shows such as The Chef Show – which is presented by world renowned director Jon Favreau and chef Roy Choi, Somebody Feed Phil – a show which features Everyone Loves Raymond creator Philip Rosenthal, travelling around the world eating some good food and Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner – a docuseries where Celebrity Chef David Chang travels to different cities round the world with different celebrities acting as his guide, are just a few food categorized television series among others which features celebrities.
Netflix did not disappoint this year either with The American BARBEQUE Showdown – a show which featured America’s eight best backyard smokers and pitmasters who will face-off in this friendly competition, Street Food: Latin America – explore various Latin American cities and their street food and Korean Porkbelly Rhapsody – a unique show which is also love letter from every generation of South Koreans to their favourite meat. Each show has been well received by Netflix users around the world.
All of the above mentioned shows are available for streaming on Netflix (as mentioned earlier) among other brilliant food based web/ docu series.