THE MEALS THAT MADE US

There is a reason we ask people what they miss eating when they are far from home. Not what landmark they miss. Not what street. Not even which person.

- CHECHE V. MORAL

What do you crave?

Food has always been nostalgia’s most reliable accomplice. Long after memories blur, the palate remains stubbornly precise. You may forget an address, but remember exactly how your grandmother’s soup tasted. You may lose a language, but still recognize a dish from childhood.

This is the emotional terrain explored by No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski, one of the most unexpectedly moving series to emerge in 2025.

Porowski, best known as the food and wine expert on Queer Eye, travels with a roster of celebrities - including Florence Pugh, Awkwafina, Justin Theroux, Issa Rae, James Marsden and Henry Golding - in search of the stories behind the foods that shaped their families. It sounds like a familiar television formula. Celebrity. Travel. Genealogy. Food.

Yet the series succeeds because it understands something many food shows do not: Food is rarely the destination. It is merely the portal.

Again and again, a dish opens the door to something larger.