The Making of The Bear’s Showstopper Monologue: “It’s a Love Letter”

Cooking is meant to be a nurturing experience as well as a bonding one. The crafting of the very sustenance that keeps us alive has been, for generations, how parents show love to their children or how those children show respect for elders’ traditions. Restaurant employees call the food they eat together before their shift a “family meal.” Cooking is also an exhausting, high-stress experience. Those who do it professionally can spend their entire heart-pumping, gotta-make-the-deadline shifts on their feet in tight quarters. Burnout and addiction are common. Both sides are depicted in FX on Hulu’s eight-episode freshman series, The… Read Full Article