Chef's Table 2020: Barbecue

We are watching the very new Netflix season of Chef's Table. There are four episodes dedicated to various sorts of barbecue in locations throughout the world. We watched the first two episodes this morning. I suspect we'll watch two more before we go to bed. Binging!

From IMDB:

"The critically-acclaimed series returns for its latest iteration, delving into the smoky, juicy world of barbecue. Featured chefs and pitmasters include Tootsie Tomantez, Lennox Hastie, Rodney Scott, and Rosalia Chay Chuc." 

Here are a few of my favorite scenes from the first two episodes. I'm not making an effort to describe just what's in these episodes, as they are similar in style and approach to every other David Gelb production that we have watched with great pleasure. And I don't think we have missed any.

Pitmaster Tootsie Tomantez at Snow's Barbecue in Texas, preparing meat with the owner of
the famous barbecue restaurant, considered the best in Texas. Tootsie at 85 years old still labors
to cook real wood-fired country barbecue every Saturday. There's much about her life as well as her food.

Lennox Hastie's special barbecue oven in Sydney, Australia.

EVERYTHING at Hastie's barbecue restaurant, called Firedoor, is cooked on the fire, and his entire method is very unsual.
He originally trained and worked at several Michelin-starred restaurants in England and Spain.

Without really planning it, we prepared for this series a couple of nights ago by having barbecue from our local takeout place, Satchel's, not far from our house. Although we have vowed to avoid buying meat, we wavered from our principles and had brisket and ribs.