Pressure Cooker, C-CAP, and a Positive Side of the Restaurant Industry

This is a bit overdue, but I watched a great documentary a few weeks ago called Pressure Cooker. We chose it, of all the movies available for streaming on Netflix, because it had a solid rating and had been filmed in Philly, but I couldn’t have expected how much I would relate to the story and the characters. Here’s the trailer:

Synopsis: Three Frankford High School students shine in a culinary class, winning scholarships at a city-wide culinary competition, and they are motivated to work so hard by a stunning, tough-love teacher.

If you have 10 minutes (& care about tomatos)

Even when they’re not about food, I love the NYT Retro Reports. Long-term accountability meets really interesting content. Bam.

But this one I find especially interesting. I’ve watched it more than once since it was published (we’re talking about half an hour or more of my life now), and I like thinking about the discrepancies between our pasts’ idealized futures and the present. What will we be saying about GMOs in 30 years? What does the media misreport, and what are they missing altogether?

Documentary: Soul Food Junkies

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At work last week, my boss gathered the interns into the conference room to watch Soul Food Junkies, a documentary by filmmaker Byron Hurt about his father’s obsession with eating unhealthy food.

There’s no question that the issues covered in the documentary are complex and multi-faceted, but the film is grounded on one family’s experience– and I loved it.