Kimchi Chronicles, let's see where this is going

I stumbled upon Kimchi Chronicles last night on PBS.  At first I was like, who is this orange lady and what is going on here?  She was touring around Seoul and the surrounding area eating bulgogi.

The orange thing turned out to be unflattering light.  Marja is actually black-Korean and adopted in the US.  The show is evidently about her discovering her Korean roots through food.

The Korean travel scenes are fantastic.  I missed the first 15 minutes or so of this show but when I jumped in she was talking with several locals and an expat about the different types of bulgogi.  It's a beautifully shot show made by the same people who did that insufferable Spain series with Mario Batali, Mark Bittman, and (ugh) Gwenyth Paltrow.

The part that lost me was when she was back in her super-modern tricked out kitchen with her snooty French chef husband, a man who admits he has never washed a single dish in his entire married life, and some random celebrities.  Chef Husband Guy made crazy steaks with wagyu beef and plopped butter mixed with kimchi down on top of them.  Make no mistake, this is in no way Korean food.  At least Marja made somewhat authentic LA kalbi.

Then there was the scene at the end with waif-like Heather Graham halfheartedly picking at some other Korean food and complaining about how spicy everything was.  Presumably at the end of the evening she jumped from the balcony and caught a light breeze back home.

FUCK I hate cooking shows with celebrities.

I've got the series set to record on DVR so I'll check out some other episodes as they become available.  But I'll probably skip the wanky celebrity parts from here on out.