Why Cooking Connects Us and Makes Us Human

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 1, 2016

Filmmaker Alex Gibney and bestselling author Michael Pollan talk about their new Netflix Original Documentary series "Cooked" which examines the human relationship with food. Each episode focuses on one of four elements used in cooking: fire, water, air and earth, and takes viewers on a culinary and cultural journey from an Aboriginal tribe in Western Australia, to a Benedictine nun who makes French cheeses in Connecticut. 

Event: Michael Pollan and Alex Gibney will be interviewed by Sam Sifton for Times Talks on March 14th at 6:30 p.m. at Director's Guild of America (110 West 57th Street). 

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