Summary: The region of Asturias means family for Chef José Andrés, and in this program, he prepares a simple apple and cheese salad with his mother’s favorite blue cheese, Cabrales. Chef José shows us the region’s traditional hard cider, and returns home to add cider vinegar to some caramelized onions that he serves with light and fluffy corn cakes. Back in Asturias, he joins his family for a hearty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: No Spanish wine is more famous than Rioja, and in this program, Chef José Andrés starts with a quick tapa of apples in a red wine syrup. He takes us to a great Rioja winemaker before cooking his own version of the region’s classic dish of potato and chorizo sausage. Back in Spain, he shows us Rioja’s superb vegetable market and eats at a special restaurant run by a mother and son who cook their...
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Summary: In this video, shot in his home region of Asturias in northern Spain, Chef José Andrés showcases its great cheeses, making a sweet and sour salad of cheese and tomatoes with a honey and vinegar dressing. He fries some golden brown monkfish, and takes to the seas off Asturias to risk his neck while fishing for barnacles.
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Summary: Chef José Andrés explores the food of the magical, mystical region of Galicia where pilgrims have traveled for centuries. In this program, he cooks a simple tapa of green Padrón peppers stuffed with cheese, as well as the traditional pilgrim’s meal of a chicken empanada, or turnover. He fishes for octopus off the region’s rocky coast, eats a traditional Galician dish of boiled octopus with...
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Summary: This video shows how Chef José Andrés turns Spain’s sparkling wine, cava, into a light dressing for oysters and also a refreshing mimosa cocktail. He goes mushroom-hunting in the Catalan mountains, before cooking a crumbled pork sausage with wild mushrooms. Back in Spain, he fishes for shrimp and eats Catalan seafood in traditional and modern ways.
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Summary: Sweet, hand-roasted red piquillo peppers are now sold in jars across the United States. In this program, Chef José Andrés stuffs some piquillos with cheese, then takes us to Navarra to show how they painstakingly roast and peel the peppers. He returns to his home kitchen to prepare a cheese and white asparagus salad. He ends with a trip to Pamplona, where the young men run with the bulls -...
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Summary: Chef José Andrés prepares scallops in their shells with Albariño white wine, and visits the dramatic seafood farms of this northwestern region. Back home, he steams mussels with bay leaf and serves them with potatoes and Spanish smoked paprika. This video then returns to Galicia to watch the magical cooking of the legendary Spanish potato tortilla, or omelet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Chef José Andrés prepares a cold soup of Basque cheese bought in Manhattan before going to the rustic farms where the cheese-makers live. In this program, he introduces us to the great red and white wines of the Basque Country, then returns home to cook a traditional dish of baby squid with caramelized onions. He finishes by eating an extraordinary meal cooked entirely on a charcoal grill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008