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#MOCHI AND WAFFLES SERIES#

Just last week, Higher Ground announced a whole slate of new, upcoming content, including the series Firekeeper's Daughter, adapted from Angeline Boulley's same-name YA thriller, and the feature film Exit West, based on Mohsin Hamid’s novel. The company was also behind the Michelle-centered doc, Becoming, which followed the former First Lady on her memoir book tour and her transition to life after the White House. Their first project for Netflix was the documentary American Factory, which premiered at Sundance in 2019 and arrived to the streaming platform later that year. In 2018, the couple landed a major, multiyear deal with Netflix to produce a whole range of content, "potentially including scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features." Retrieved March 19, 2021.Michelle and Barack Obama are also executive producers on the series, which was created through their Higher Ground Productions company. " 'Waffles + Mochi' Is the 'Sesame Street' of Food TV". "Review: The Obamas' 'Waffles + Mochi,' Starring Michelle, Enters the Culture Wars". "Random House Cooks Up Tie-Ins for Michelle Obama-Backed 'Waffles' ". Sarah Rebar, Erika Thormahlen, Jeremy Konner. Sarah Rebar, Michelle Obama, Erika Thormahlen, Jeremy Konner. Waffles + Mochi, created by Erika Thormahlen and Jeremy Konner, with episodes directed by Konner and Alex Braverman, plays like the instructive, puppet-human collaboration formula of Sesame Street. "Michelle Obama is launching a cooking show on Netflix". ^ Benveniste, Alexis (February 9, 2021).Time's Judy Berman penned that the series is the " Sesame Street of food TV", describing it as "engaging, illuminating, curious and effortlessly inclusive".

The Los Angeles Times' Robert Lloyd described the series as "a well-balanced mix of familiar ingredients: a fanciful set, documentary visits to far-flung places, real kids being real, comical or calming adults, and puppets", while Sonia Saraiya of Vanity Fair wrote that Waffles + Mochi "feels wholesomely entertaining" as a show. The Guardian critic Adrian Horton, giving the series a rating of 4 out of 5 stars, wrote that it is "hard to fault" and that it "strikes the difficult balance between didacticism, age-appropriate messaging and zany fun". On Metacritic, it has a score of 82 out of 100 based on 12 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Waffles + Mochi holds a approval rating of 95% with an average rating 8.40/10, based on 20 reviews. The original plans for the puppets had them "as detailed as possible with animatronics" but decided to keep them simpler and Sesame Street-like with "puppetry rods clearly visible".

To improve Zamora's real-time reactions to Waffles eating food, they rigged the sets so Zamora could eat at the same time as Waffles and she said she was "getting spoon-fed tortellini from Massimo Bottura - world-renowned chefs!" They had "three or four puppets" on set for the eating scenes in case the puppets got too messy and were unable to be cleaned. Waffles had a "hidden pocket" that's cleanable along with a specifically designed glove to let Waffles eat hot food safely, according to Waffle's puppeteer Michelle Zamora. Produced by Higher Ground Productions with Michelle Obama as executive producer. The puppets were created by Viva La Puppet and had the unusual feature of being able to eat food on camera for multiple takes. Waffles + Mochi is a childrens cooking streaming television series. All episodes were made available to stream on Netflix on March 16, 2021. Executive produced by Erika Thormahlen, Jeremy Konner, Tonia Davis, Priya Swaminathan, Alex Braverman and the Obamas, it was announced on February 9, 2021, and its trailer was released on February 11. It is one of the first programs to be made by the company for Netflix. Waffles + Mochi was produced by Higher Ground Productions, the production company founded by former President and First Lady of the United States Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. Diona Elise Burnett as Magicart and Steve the Mop.Jonathan Kidder as Busy Bee, the store manager.Through the series they encounter tasks they need to accomplish and travel around the world on Magicart where they meet chefs, other food experts, and learn to eat and make different kinds of foods in each episode. They're hired as employees of a grocery store owned by Michelle Obama. Waffles (whose dad is a frozen waffle and mother is a yeti) and Mochi (a mochi ball) are two friends that wish they could become chefs but live in the land of frozen food where everything is made of ice.