· Squeal Like A Pig - This unique travel/cooking
series features Chef and Author David Chang making connections between
food and nature, science, music, art, sports, history and just about
anything else that he can stir up. In Montreal, David and Comedian Aziz
Ansari try Wilensky's famous fried bologna sandwich. In the kitchen,
David makes a "red-eye mayo;" his pastry chef shows how to make a salty
sugary late night snack--the corn cookie ham and cheese. Anthony
Bourdain narrates.
· Noodlin - Author and Chef David Chang visits a
noodle factory in Japan; eats the best bowl of ramen in his life; and,
cooks two incredible dishes with the instant ramen variety. Food
Scientist Harold McGee explains how alkaline salts make ramen noodles
unique. Anthony Bourdain narrates.
· Spain - In Spain, Author and Chef David Chang
explores the streets of San Sebastian with friend and legendary chef
Juan Marie Arzak. El Bulli's Ferran Adria talks about the current state
of cuisine. David prepares a salt cod omelet, and in honor of Adria, he
cooks a microwave sponge cake. Anthony Bourdain narrates.
· Memory Lane - Author and Chef David Chang revisits a
ramen shop in Japan, where he ate while apprenticing at a restaurant in
Tokyo. He also visits the Callaway Golf factory where, for the first
time in the 14 years since he threw his clubs off a cliff, he hits a
golf ball. Later, he prepares a cold Korean soup, naeng myung, that his
mother prepared for him and his father when they went golfing.
· Rotten - David Chang travels to San Sebastian,
Spain, to exhibit his experiment in rot: pork butabushi. His pastry chef
shows that the best flavor in a banana cream pie comes from rotten
bananas. Rene Redzepi cooks a "garbage plate" using potatoes left in the
ground months longer than what is considered fresh.
· The Sweet Spot -
· Simplicity - David Chang visits a sushi master in
Tokyo and a yakitori chef who has been grilling chicken for 30 years. In
the kitchen, David makes a simple chicken noodle soup.
· So You Think You Are A Chef - Wylie Dufresne cooks
carrot-coconut sunny-side up egg, Rene Redzepi cooks clam chowder and
David Chang cooks a buttermilk apple dashi. This series dares to make
connections between food and nature, science, music, art, sports,
history, and pretty much anything else a renowned chef can stir up.
· Phresh Vs. Phrozen - This program addresses various
theories of food preservation. In Japan, David Chang examines a
technique of killing fish, called ike jime, that inhibits rigor mortis.
In the kitchen, he cooks with space food, while his pastry chef makes a
corn cookie using freeze-dried ingredients.
· Japan - David Chang travels from Tokyo to Kyoto to
meet and eat with friends and to explore the different ingredients and
culinary techniques of the eastern world. He visits a street market in
Tokyo, a fish auction in Kyoto and finishes the trip at a Michelin
three-star restaurant, Kikunoi. In the kitchen, he cooks yakitori--or
Japanese grilled chicken.
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