A Cooking Show A Mystery And A Documentary

What do a cooking mystery show and a documentary have in common? I have no idea, although there are few, but the mystery is on PBS.

PBS Cooking Show

After cooking on several cooking shows with the Food Network, this was my first experience cooking with PBS. It was also my first 8 episode series.

Honestly, cooking on the TV with the timer on isn't everyone's idea of fun, but it is mine .

Why? Let's just say that it gives me a unique opportunity to create "visual narratives" through food, which I like, but not to learn to cook, which I don't.

Cooking - Chefs vs

Although few viewers like cooking shows and don't realize that most of the cooking competitions are made up of home cooks and non-professional cooks, the popularity of these shows is now surpassing all others.

As for me, I have been immersed in several excellent series aimed at professional chefs. Like Chef's Table or The Great British Menu.

Oddly enough, I watch in awe and learn as they execute every detail, from technique to presentation.

However, this is not the case with non-professional cooking shows.

home cooks on tv

In general, there are more cooking shows on TV than I can find, and most of them feature home cooks or those who started out that way.

When I was asked to do The Great American Recipe with PBS , they were obviously interested in creating a completely different kind of cooking competition.

Robin Dummett

Surprisingly, all the images were there. Beautiful converted barn with ten kitchens located in rural Virginia on the edge of a lake.

Interestingly, the stories they wanted to tell through the chefs were central to the producers, as was PBS' style of entertainment.

What they sought was to capture the multiculturalism of the United States through the heritage of traditional recipes passed down by each of our families.

kitchen documentaries

Creating documentaries about various aspects of the culinary world has become a widely accepted form of entertainment.

Often these documentaries are created around ordinary faces we see on TV, Stanley Tucci or professional chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants.

How about America's Top Ten Chefs? None of us are professional chefs, but they welcomed us into their televisions and hearts.

How and why is the tenth documentary made and will there be?

mysteries and PBS

If you love a good story or mystery, you're already familiar with PBS' style of storytelling.

They have collected and shared everything from classic books and movies to delving into our heritage and tracing its roots.

So I couldn't help but be surprised when, sixteen months after filming the first season of The Great American Recipe, ten of us got a mystery box, a cooking show based on our roots.

Mystery Box and Documentary

During Valentine's week, we each received a package that seemed like a nice gesture of appreciation.

Inside the box was a cute "airplane" that you could put on the couch while watching TV, with letters that basically meant "alphabet soup."

In the box, there was also a note that said "You warm our hearts" and a book.

The puzzle became a book, a library classic, and the words on the other side of the writing became you, me and the documentary.

presentation of the documentary

As I have an analytical mind, I began to delve into the meaning of this package, book and letter.

We get a (mostly) different book, a classic story, and the same message. What was the selection of books that PBS chose to recommend to each of us?

As each of us (former contestants, now friends) began to explain which book we had received, I began to see the connection between the book and the person clearly as we appeared on the show.

Cooking and mystery documentary

A few days after receiving this package, the mystery remains unsolved.

Someone could make a documentary about people building a story around themselves on a cooking show, beyond the mystery and intrigue of this package, it's PBS.

Bambi Daniels

continues

How about a little more mystery? Another chef entered this puzzle. He's not on our show, but he has a popular cooking show on PBS...my god, the plot just keeps getting thicker.

Speaking of fat, carnival starts this week and it's time to whip up a pot of moqueca, a Brazilian seafood stew, the amazing dish I made in episode 6 of The Great American Recipe.