Pressure Cooker

A committed, passionate teacher tries to make all the difference in the lives of disadvantaged students.

2008-01-01 | en

The Raw Gourmet, Volume Three: Palate-pleasing Entrées to Feed 4 to 400

Culinary artist Nomi Shannon prepares luscious entrées and explains how to expand her recipes to feed a crowd. Nomi prepares raw lasagna, an all-raw pasta (with pesto, pomadoro, or marinara sauce), and a spinach mouse—the raw food answer to quiche!

2001-01-01 | en

The Raw Gourmet, Volume Two: Making Meals Out of Nuts and Seeds

Culinary artist Nomi Shannon shows us how to use nuts and seeds to make hearty entrees and protein-rich meals. Nomi demonstrates how to make nori rolls, stuffed peppers, 'neat-balls' and gravy, Asian pate, chiles rellenos, pâté, loaves and the sun garden burger.

2001-01-01 | en

Consommateurs, vous avez le pouvoir !

2022-05-10 | fr

La France aux fourneaux

2020-12-23 | fr

Arnaques à l'italienne

2022-06-07 | fr

Vařil jsem pro dva krále...

1994-01-01 | cs

Alice Waters, Edible Schoolyard: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2006

Alice Waters, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2006 Community Leadership Awards (The John R. May Award) - for transforming our relationship with food. Through her promotion of sustainable agriculture and the slow food movement, she fights obesity and fosters a clearer understanding of how the natural world sustains us. Alice and the Chez Panisse Foundation's Edible Schoolyard educates public school children on the importance of growing and cooking fresh, nutritional food.

2009-12-09 | en

The Most Remote Restaurant in the World

The meals based on indigenous ingredients and sustainability at the forefront. Project managers are soon faced with problems ranging from sourcing ingredients to staffing a high-end restaurant in a location inhabited by only 53 people.

2023-06-01 | da

Cuisines hors de portée : sous-marin nucléaire

2024-09-04 | fr

How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy

In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded conversations with him about his life, his work, and his other passion: cooking! With the flair of a seasoned raconteur, Leacock recounts key moments in his seventy years as a filmmaker and the innovations that he, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and others invented that revolutionized documentary filmmaking, and explores the mystery of creativity. With the passing of both Blank and Leacock, the documentary is a moving insight into the lives of two seminal figures in the history of film.

2014-08-31 | en

Center for Ecoliteracy: California Food for California Kids

The Center for Ecoliteracy advances school meal innovation and is pleased to introduce its California Food for California Kids initiative. Using the acclaimed Rethinking School Lunch planning framework and Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools cookbook and professional development resource, the Center convenes food service directors from across California to support and inspire their work providing more fresh and freshly-prepared food for school children.

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Arabian Flavours

Join world renowned chefs, Pierre Sang & Cédric Grolet, as they travel Saudi Arabia experiencing new flavours, meeting other chefs and learning Arabic cooking techniques.

2022-06-01 | fr

Marcella

Marcella Hazan didn’t just teach Italian cooking—she changed the way America eats. Fearless, passionate, and exacting, she introduced authentic recipes to millions. Julia Child called Marcella “my mentor in all things Italian.” Featuring Jacques Pépin, Danny Meyer, April Bloomfield, and Lidia Bastianich, this intimate portrait reveals the bold woman who forever shaped home kitchens.

2025-05-09 | en

Kings of Pastry

The collar awarded to the winners of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman in France) is more than the ultimate recognition for every pastry chef - it is a dream and an obsession. The 3-day competition includes everything from delicate chocolates to precarious six foot sugar sculptures and requires that the chefs have extraordinary skill, nerves of steel and luck. The film follows Jacquy Pfeiffer, founder of The French Pastry School in Chicago, as he returns to France to compete against 15 of France's leading pastry chefs. The filmmakers were given first time/exclusive access to this high-stakes drama of passion, sacrifice, disappointment and joy in the quest to have President Sarkozy declare them one of the best in France.

2009-11-06 | en

Soul

Soul explores the secrets of gastronomy where two cuisines apparently so opposite in their philosophy, conception and experience, have both earned the highest culinary recognition, three Michelin stars.

2017-07-30 | en

Million Dollar Buffet: World's Most Expensive All-You-Can-Eat Buffet

From glorious wagyu beef to luscious lobster, this special takes viewers to the world's most decadent buffets for heaping plates of luxurious food.

2022-12-29 | en

Forks Over Knives

Examines the profound claim that most; if not all; of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled; or even reversed; by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Cameras follow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments - while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.

2011-05-06 | en

Le raisin a un grain

2023-09-19 | fr

PlantPure Nation

Three people try to start a pilot program to document the health benefits of a plant-based diet.

2015-04-04 | en