David Gelb
American director
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Jul 16, 2026
The Story Behind Chef’s Table: David Gelb on Jiro, Storytelling & Reinventing the Series
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Daniel ShemtobHOST
And I guess one of the things I first wanted to know is when you started uncovering the story, was it intoxicating? Were you like, hey, I'm going to go back and create mastery? What was the lessons learned? And at what moment did you know in there that
David GelbGUEST
I wanted to do a bunch of different sushi chefs and kind of make like this kind of planet Earth kind of thing about sushi chefs around the world.
David GelbGUEST
But I got really sucked into his story because I realized that it's first off Jiro being at the time he was what, 83 years old, 84 years old.
David GelbGUEST
working in the subway station, serving the first ever three Michelin-starred sushi.
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