Chef Kenji López-Alt isn’t just the culinary scientist behind New York Times best-selling cookbooks—he’s been a violinist since age 4 and still plays chamber music. In his new project, Tasting Notes, he mixes live music, cooking demos and candid chats about creativity, proving that recipes and melodies both evolve as they pass through generations.
Filmed at Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival, Lara Downes and Kenji riff on how technique—whether in the kitchen or on stage—is just a tool for expressing heart and heritage. From the multicultural streets of his NYC youth to his grandmother’s Japanese kitchen, he shows how a bite or a bar of music can instantly reconnect us to memory, culture and our shared humanity.
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