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In a mouth-watering tour of cooking traditions around the world, best-selling author Michael Pollan explores the joys and power of preparing food.

Cooked

Name: Cooked
Genre: Documentaries
Released: 2016-2-19

2016 TV-PG 1 Season

As he tries his hand at baking, brewing and braising, acclaimed food writer Michael Pollan explores how cooking transforms food and shapes our world.

Starring: Michael Pollan

Genres: TV Shows, Food & Travel TV, Docuseries, Documentaries, Social & Cultural Docs

Creators: Alex Gibney, Michael Pollan

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Cooked (Trailer)

In a mouth-watering tour of cooking traditions around the world, best-selling author Michael Pollan explores the joys and power of preparing food.

EPISODES Cooked

Release Year: 2016

Focusing on four kinds of "transformations" that occur in cooking, Michael Pollan teases out links between science, culture and the flavors we love.

1. Fire

59m

Helped by local Australian hunters and a barbecue pit master, Pollan shows how fire shaped human gastronomy, and weighs our duty to the animals we eat.

2. Water

50m

Pollan looks to the kitchens of India for a lesson in the value of pot cooking and examines the consequences of eating highly processed food.

3. Air

53m

Visit food labs and Moroccan fields as Pollan delves into the science of bread-making and the nature of gluten.

4. Earth

52m

Discover how microbes help turn raw ingredients into delicacies like chocolate and cheese as Pollan tackles the mysterious process of fermentation.

Michael Pollan has won numerous awards for his books about food, which include the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma."

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This show is:

Cerebral

Audio:

Italian, French, Spanish, German, English [Original], English - Audio Description

Subtitles:

Spanish, Simplified Chinese, English, Traditional Chinese, French

Cast

Michael Pollan

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