Eat: The Story of Food

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Season 1
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Denver Post
    Reviewed by: Joanne Ostrow
    Nov 21, 2014
    70
    If the tone of this miniseries lays it on thick, the subject is universal, the information is solid, the photography brilliant and the whole effort a sumptuous departure for NatGeo.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Allison Keene
    Nov 20, 2014
    70
    While Eat: The Story of Food is educational, it can also be silly and glib.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Nov 20, 2014
    60
    A preview of the first two parts of what the channel is billing as a “miniseries event” yields some insight regarding the historical and cultural relationships between man and food without doing enough to whet the appetite for additional courses.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Dec 1, 2014
    50
    he two episodes offered for review, "Food Revolutionaries" (including Auguste Escoffier, Julia Child and Clarence Birdseye) and "Carnivores," hop around within their subjects with no particular direction, but lots of anecdote and opinion; the tone is hopelessly antic, marked with animations and sound effects and never landing on any image for longer than it takes to take it in.