During August’s inaugural Chef’s Table Festival in Park City, David Gelb watched Massimo Bottura, one of Italy’s most celebrated chefs, rescue a pizza. A cook working with Franco Pepe was about to discard a pie that hadn’t met the pizzaiolo’s standards when Bottura intervened and told him to fold it into a calzone. Then Bottura started saucing it, slicing it and feeding event attendees who had gathered to watch the spectacle unfold. “I felt like it was scripted,” says Gelb, creator of Netflix’s Chef’s Table. Bottura was the series’ first subject in its 2015 premiere, and starred again in episode four of Chef’s Table: Pizza in 2022. The…
