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In that sense,Street Fooddoes not feel especially remarkable or innovative.
They look less like meals and more like works of art being photographed for a museum exhibition catalogue.
The message is not subtle.
Its the thesis of Guy FierisDiners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, for Petes sake.
(And alsoUgly Delicious, andNo Reservations… the list goes on.)
More than any food series Ive watched, poverty and survival loom over the chefs featured inStreet Food.
After years as a stay-at-home mother, her husband announced that hed gotten the family into debt.
In the footage of her as she works, Yonsoon smiles and laughs with her patrons.
Her story is not unusual in this series.
And yetStreet Foodepisodes are not framed as stories of desperation and anguish.
Theyve been selected, after all.
They have been deemed the best.
Street Foodalso shows that more than one kind of story about food can be valuable.
There is room for both the classic and the innovative.
WatchStreet Foodfor all the usual reasons you watch travel food shows.
