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Season 6

This season of The Mind of a Chef delves into the boundless creativity of Danny Bowien, the chef and owner behind New York’s Mission Chinese Food. Bowien’s origin story informs much of his playful, continually evolving cuisine: born in Korea and adopted by a devoutly Christian white family in Oklahoma. After his mother’s death in his late teens, he chose to move to San Francisco to attend culinary school. His twenties unfold as a tapestry of highs and lows—formal training, stints at fine-dining kitchens in New York and San Francisco, abusive chefs, love found and a reconnection with his Korean roots, and a stumble into what would become a food movement—the original Mission Chinese Food in San Francisco.

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Cast & Crew

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

Narrator (voice)

Danny Bowien

Danny Bowien

Self

Episode Guide

No one chooses the life they are born into. Cast into a body, a family, a country, and a history, the story of our existence unfolds as the sum of countless contingent forces that determine whom we will meet, how we will fare, and who we will become. Yet for adoptees, origins grow tangled as the place of birth fuses with the world in which they are raised. Danny Bowien was born in Korea and spent only the first three months of his infancy there. He was adopted and raised by American parents in Oklahoma—devout, industrious people—and instead of a life in Seoul, Danny grows up in suburban Middle America. Adjusting to this life came easily, for it was all he knew, but he carried traces of his past—on the surface and buried deep below.

Season 6 FAQs

The cast of Season 6 includes Anthony Bourdain as Narrator (voice) and Danny Bowien as Self.