Confucius was a Foodie

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  • Premiered: Feb 2016
  • Episodes: 19
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • Canadian Learning Television
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  • Documentary Food

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Season 2
2x1
Celebrations, Ceremonies and the Dumpling
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Air date
Feb 02, 2017
Christine eats her way through the Lunar calendar with traditional customs, cuisine and culture.
2x2
Tea Culture, Celebration & Commerce
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Air date
Feb 11, 2017
Chef Christine starts her tea adventure in London, England where she learns why Westerners think of England when they think of tea, even though it's one of the most important Chinese exports and essential to all Chinese celebrations.
2x3
Noodles - Long for Life, Food of Legends
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Air date
Feb 18, 2017
Birthday parties and baby naming ceremonies all wish for the same thing - long life. And in the Chinese culinary culture, that means noodles and there are more noodles in Chinese cuisines than you can possibly imagine.
2x4
Origins of the Beginnings
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Air date
Feb 25, 2017
Everything has its origins somewhere. Chef Christine looks for the culinary roots of foods such as ice cream, ketchup, pasta, phyllo, baklava and pizza.
2x5
Politics and the Origin of Off Shoot Cuisines
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Air date
Mar 02, 2017
Both during and after China's Cultural Revolution, traditional Chinese chefs, often seen as keepers of the cultural flame, were among the first to defect and their exodus has had a lasting effect on world cuisine, in particular in Taiwan.
2x6
Confucius and the Origin of Food Philosophy
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Mar 09, 2017
Was it Confucius or Hippocrates who first said, "let food be your medicine and medicine be your food"? Chef Christine sets off to compare the thoughts and beliefs of foodie writers and philosophers.
2x7 Season finale
The Origin of ‘Cuisine’
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Mar 16, 2017
When did cooking become cuisine? Was it in the Confucius Mansion 2,500 years ago and is Chinese cuisine really the biggest, the most expressive and the most complex cuisine on the planet?

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