The Cooking Show : A video essay by Dirty Furniture (excerpt)

Role: Editor

Directed by Dirty Furniture Magazine (Elizabeth Glickfield and Anna Bates)

Sound: Chris Greives

The cooking show is as old as television itself. But why do we like watching the making of a meal that most of us will never cook, let alone eat? Dirty Furniture’s jam-packed video essay is a rollercoaster ride through the history of the genre, at once a staple of television viewing and a hotpot of shifting perspectives and sociocultural values.

e-flux Architecture presents Dirty Furniture's video essay The Cooking Show with Dirty Furniture (2020), as part of Critical Cooking Show, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one.