Sami Tamimi, a co-founder of London’s famous Mediterranean Ottolenghi restaurants, and Tara Wigley, a food author and Ottolenghi alumna, delve into the food of Tamimi’s homeland, Palestine. Netflix’s tackle the elite cooking competitors sequence à la MasterChef and Iron Chef, The Final Table is straight-up not on the level of the sequence from which it takes its inspiration. It is, nevertheless, an unintentionally scathing insight into a darker aspect of food tradition and the facility disparities that disenfranchise minority chefs within the culinary world, and for that, it’s a fairly fascinating watch. The set-up finds 24 celebrated cooks from around the globe, adorned with varied accolades from Michelin stars to regional prizes, competing to execute the proper dish from destinations across the globe. For their “trip” to America, they want to craft a Thanksgiving dinner.

Homo erectus, thought of the first fashionable human species, realized to cook and doubled its …