'Jeremiah Tower': A Reclusive Celebrity Chef, Under Glass
This unexceptional documentary about an exceptional chef — the chief innovator of California cuisine — dutifully traces his rise and self-imposed exile, but leaves the viewer hungry.
There are no sure things in the volatile world of indie film distribution, but food documentaries have become reliable winners — the of dinner-and-a-movie date nights, the pornography of Netflix. Half of them warn of all the terrible things in food—! ! !—but the other half are sensual delights like or, advancing the culinary whimsy of the world's most innovative kitchens.
