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About America and Americans via food. No, not cheaply about obesity through fast-food hamburgers and fries, but through real food. And it’s presented nicely, like a Michael Palin travelogue (yes, it’s more about travel than cookery); it focuses on genius loci, experiences and people. And so in one episode, through (il)legal aliens and their national cuisine, Jamie focuses on New York where guerilla and domestic protest restaurants play an ever more important role, but then in the next episode he jumps to Louisiana where, apart form searching for real gumbo and hunting alligators, he looks for the answer to the question of what makes settlers choose to stay in places regularly hit by destructive tornados, but then in the next episode he tries traditional Mexican cuisine in the suburbs of LA amongst Latino gangs and learns what role food can play in disrupting the vicious circle “if you live among gangs, you join a gang" and... Well, that gives you some impression. And in addition to occasional excesses (yes, the hair styling scene), this time he neglected to make an episode about himself (you know, him talking about himself, his wife, problems in his chain of restaurants etc.; in other words, how he wrecked the otherwise solid concept of his journeys around Italy) and so he is primarily the guide here. Which is a role which suits him unsurprisingly well, considering how funny and endearing he can be.
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