My food-series TV show pitch ramble!
[Pretend you're a TV executive and you're listening to me give you a pitch]
Ok, so it's a TV show about our parent's cooking and our own cooking. Specifically, it's a focus on immigrant parents and their "American" children. When my parents came in the 80's, they told me they carried a jar full of gochujang (Korean red hot pepper paste) to Florida. They told me it was difficult to find Korean ingredients. My mom is a food experimenter, she's always trying to make new recipes (one time she made collard greens kimchi, other times she add gochujang in chili). So it's about showing our parent's history: the struggles of going to a new country especially when it comes to adapting.
And then it's going to be the children's side. What aspect of their parent's cooking do they keep, what do they reject? And it's going to ask, for the future generation, what would their food be like? Most people incorporate different cultures for their day to day meal. I'm married to a white woman from San Fransisco, and we always discussed what food we would feed to our children. Korean food is important to me, but it's likely I'm going to adapt it to bring some of my own wife's culture into it. Fennel, for example, grows wild in the west and it's one of her favorite vegetables. I would make it into kimchi!
I title the TV show "Did you Eat? What did you Eat?". Because this is the question I get asked a lot by my mom when I call home.
Yeah. And it's interviewing just regular people. It doesn't always have to be a positive interview, it could be a negative, bitter interview. Maybe this connection to their parents bring conflicted emotions.
Yeah. 12 episodes across United States. One episode dedicated to me, of course, to represent the Korea diaspora. Yeah give me a million dollars.