The Mind of a Chef

  • Premiered: Nov 2012
  • Episodes: 86
  • Followers: 65
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Friday
  • Documentary Food

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Season 2
2x1
Southerners
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 05, 2013
In this episode, Chef Sean Brock explores a few of the unique regional cuisines in the South.
2x2
Seeds
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 12, 2013
It all began when Sean Brock went looking for Jimmy red corn. That simple journey turned into a lifetime of searching, archiving and reviving lost crops of the South. His partners in .. show full overview
2x3
Rice
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 2013
The resurrection of Carolina gold rice, which disappeared following the Civil War era, is examined. Included: making pilaf and Hoppin' John fritters. Also: Louisiana chef Donald Link makes jambalaya; and Senegalese chef Fati Ly makes pilau.
2x4
Louisiana
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 26, 2013
A look at Louisiana cuisine features a visit to Middendorf's Restaurant in Akers, La., with food writer John T. Edge; and a frogging excursion with chef Donald Link.
2x5
Preserve
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 03, 2013
Preservation techniques that play an important role in Southern culture are discussed, including drying, salt-curing, canning and fermentation.
2x6
Roots
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 2013
Host Sean Brock prepares a typical Appalachian dinner; cooks chicken dumplings with his mother; visits with chef Joseph Lenn at Blackberry Farms in Tennessee; and learns how to make fried okra and country ham.
2x7
Low Country BBQ
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 17, 2013
Host Sean Brock prepares an outdoor feast on a friend's farm, where he's joined by barbecue pitmaster Rodney Scott, who roasts a whole pig; and Steven Satterfield, who makes Savannah red rice. Brock also prepares frogmore stew
2x8
Senegal
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 24, 2013
The influence of West Africa on Southern cuisine is explored during a visit to Senegal. Historian and chef Fati Ly leads a tour of the markets in Dakar and M'Bour; and cooks theibou yapp, a traditional Sengalese dish.
2x9
London
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 2013
Travel with Chef April Bloomfield to London, where her cooking career began.
2x10
Sea/Salt
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 2013
Focus on April’s love of the sea, which is deep and fully realized.
2x11
Curry
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 2013
Explore the origins of curry and England’s versions of this historic cuisine.
2x12
Italian
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 2013
Explore April Bloomfield’s deep love for Italian cuisine and its influence on her cooking.
2x13
British Classics
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 2013
Review some of the signature dishes of UK cuisine: bangers and mash, fish-n-chips, and pies.
2x14
Farmer
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 2013
April travels four hours outside London to Cornwall to visit and cook with farmer and chef Tom Adams on his farm. Tom raises the cute, furry and delicious mangalitsa pigs. April and Tom .. show full overview
2x15
Leftovers
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 2013
This episode aims to prove that nasty bits have been given a bad rap and deserve to be on the kitchen table along with meatloaf and mashed potatoes. In the kitchen, April cooks faggots, .. show full overview
2x16 Season finale
Restaurateur
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 2013
Chef Bloomfield wrestles with the questions every aspiring new or expanding veteran chef has to confront. April and her business partner, Ken Friedman, explore the challenges of opening .. show full overview

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