That Michelle Obama she was endowed with the rare gift of telegenia was clear since she accompanied her husband Barack to public ceremonies and the cameras were all on her, bewitched by her charm and her gab, by that innate ability to always say the right thing at the right time . It was clear that it would be a matter of time before seeing her involved in a television project outside of politics and that slice of democrats who still hope that one day she will be the candidate to support, so it is not surprising that Michelle relied on Netflix, who had already produced a documentary, Becoming – La storia, dedicated to the launch of his million-copy biography, nor that she has chosen to explore a topic that has always been close to her heart, such as food information.
Contrary to what was believed, however, Michelle surprised everyone not only by choosing to address the show to a preschool audience, but also to carve out for herself a marginal role, of simple appearance.
The series is Waffles + Mochi, is available on Netflix and is produced by Higher Ground, the production house owned by Barack and Michelle herself. It is a ten-episode show very light and very enjoyable which features two puppets named Waffles, daughter of a Yeti and a frozen waffle, and Mochi, a round creature that is expressed only through guttural sounds. They live in the Land of Frozen Foods and, despite everything they cook in the shape of ice cubes, they keep within themselves the dream of becoming a chef and savoring, for once, real food. The opportunity comes when a broken down truck stops right next to their home, which will allow Waffles and Mochi to sneak inside and then end up in a supermarket that sees Michelle Obama as the owner, lurking in the garden set up on the top floor of the building, not too distantly recalling the vegetable garden that she has cultivated with love in the eight years she has been in the White House. From here Waffles + Mochi becomes a journey to discover the kitchen: in each of the 10 episodes, in fact, the two friends will deepen a certain food by traveling the world, meeting renowned chefs, children and various celebrities to try to explain to the little ones something more about fruit, vegetables , spices and so on.
On board the magic cart, Waffles and Mochi literally travel the world letting us guess that both Netflix and Higher Ground have spared no expense: from the cultivation of Oakland tomatoes to the Maras salt pans of Peru, from Japan to our Italy (among the many guests we will also see the chef Massimo Bottura, consulted in the sixth and ninth episodes), the series seeks not only to provide children with basic information on the foods we eat at the table, but also the tools to immediately get in touch with very different cultures. From lessons such as “the tomato is not a vegetable but a fruit” to precepts such as “too crippled”, albeit without some slip that for us Italians is unforgivable – in the first episode we see a pizzeria in San Francisco in which parmesan is spread over the pizza, horror! – the gist of the experiment is that there is always something to discover, to smell and to taste, with Michelle Obama who, at the end of each episode, is ready to give a medal to the two puppets for being able to learn something from her travel. In a period in which we are not yet allowed to move, watching a light series that will also be aimed at children, but is certainly not contraindicated for adults, it is an excellent exercise to imagine the things we will see and, above all, that we will taste a once left the pandemic behind. Better if with the smile of Michelle Obama to reassure us that everything will be fine.
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