Made in Spain (2008)
Made in Spain
2008Made In Spain is a 2008 food and travel series starring José Andrés, the show focuses on ingredients, cooking techniques and historic locations. Cooking is shown both in Spanish restaurants and in Andrés' home kitchen near Washington, DC.
Seasons & Episode
José travels to Cataluña, the region where he was raised, to join in the Calçot Festival, a joyous occasion attended by thousands that honors, of all things, an unusual onion. He uses a similar onion to cook a white bean omelet, and shows us how to create two more traditional dishes from this area: One is mar y montaña, (Spanish surf-and-turf), which he pairs with the region’s famed Priorat wines; the other–canelloni. (OH, you thought that was Italian? Not any more!)
Centuries of history and generations of cooking tradition come together in Castilla y León, where José travels to restaurants that have mastered fire. We look on as master chefs roast pigs and lambs, then watch as José prepare the perfect roast rack of lamb. And we meet the Ibérico pig—source of the Ibérico ham that was unavailable in the U.S. until recently, but is now sweeping the nation as the caviar of cold cuts.
After creating a special drunken goat cheese and tomato salad, José ventures through the region of Murcia in search of the truth behind drunken goat cheese. After visiting the great historic sites of Murcia—the Roman theater at Cartagena, the still-working ancient water wheels—José takes us to a wonderful winery, and explores the famed Murcia vegetable gardens and cooks some great vegetable dishes. Finally, José tries his hand at a unique style of fishing—and, of course, cooks what he catches.
José explores the fascinating region of Valencia, famed for its rice fields and paella restaurants. After visiting the best of them, José takes us back to his home in America and teaches us to cook paella at a backyard barbecue with his wife and three daughters!
José travels to Andalucía’s Granada, the city that made cold soup famous, and creates two of his own–the famed gazpacho, and the purely Andalucían delicacy, ajo blanco. He dances his way through one of Spain’s most famed festivals, the Feria de Abril in Sevilla, and takes us on a tapas bar-hopping trip to sample the local delicacies —all sandwiched around a visit to La Alhambra, one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
In the mythical forests of Aragón, a heavenly region almost too beautiful to be real, José is inspired to cook two very earthly regional dishes: Migas, an ancient dish based on breadcrumbs (in this case, paired with mushrooms and serrano ham) and pollo al chilindron, a chicken stew made with a green and red pepper sauce. He returns to Aragón to walk the Pyrenees Mountains, fish for trout, and even hunt for truffles, the old-fashioned way.
José explores one of the most sophisticated regions of Europe, Basque Country, and cooks some of the iconic dishes of the countryside – from pintxos (small regional tapas) including one named after a movie star, to the delicate cod dish known as bacalao al pil pil. He takes us to the traditional place in Spain for eating bacalao – a cider bar; explores the beautiful city of San Sebastian; and he visits Arzak -- the restaurant of one of his mentors, and one of the greatest restaurants in all of Spain.
Since the United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato, José begins his trip to these stunningly beautiful islands of Canarias by cooking up a fascinating local dish of wrinkled potatoes and two great sauces, a mojo rojo and a mojo verde – then visits the potato fields on the island of Tenerife. While there, of course, José stops off at a great winery and a fabulous restaurant, then ventures on to the island of Lanzarote (but not before creating a superb sancocho–a local version of fish stew).
Made In Spain is a 2008 food and travel series starring José Andrés, the show focuses on ingredients, cooking techniques and historic locations. Cooking is shown both in Spanish restaurants and in Andrés' home kitchen near Washington, DC.