If we are what we eat, then what does our food say about us, our lives, and our world? In a new docuseries called Omnivore, René Redzepi of Copenhagen's Noma unpacks that question as he travels to learn more about the foods that nourish and define us. “Ingredients do more than feed: they fuel economies, power politics, and unlock hidden truths about who we are and where we are going,” narrates Redzepi at the start of the first episode. That episode is dedicated to chili, and it transports us, in the cinematic richness that executive producer Matt Goulding, of Parts Unknown, is known for—from a tiny village in Serbia where every home is sheathed in curtains of bright red string pepper to the Tabasco factory in Louisiana and the night markets of Bangkok—all the while marveling at the heft of an everyday ingredient that has the power to suspend us between pleasure and pain.