Episodes

13 episodes in this season

The Hunt for Caribbean Lobster

25 min

Tour of Traditions

25 min

Off the Beaten Path Playa del Carmen

25 min

Cerviches Gone Wild

25 min

Cooking Like a Local

25 min

Love of Live Fire Cooking

25 min

Baking up Comfort

25 min

Splendor of Yucatan Enchanting Markets

25 min

A Place of Deeply Rooted Innovation

25 min

E10

Chocolate Dreams Cacao Fantasies

25 min

E11

Dreaming of Sustainable Agriculture

25 min

E12

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Pit Cooking Sacred and Smoky

25 min

E13

Examining the Yucatans Natural Resources

25 min

Mexico: One Plate at a Time

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200325m

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Pit Cooking Sacred and Smoky

Season 11 · Episode 12 · Dec 2, 2016

Cooking in underground pits is an elemental part of Yucatecan cooking. In fact, it’s downright sacred, as we’ll see during the preparation of mucbil pollo at an intimate candlelit Hanal Pixan ceremony (think of it as the Yucatán’s version of Dias de Los Muertos.) Rick heads to Yaxunah to see the entire process of making cochinita pibil, from the digging of the pit to the garnishing of the tacos. Rick also visits the smoky ovens in Temozón, a village known throughout Yucatán for its purveyors of smoked meats. Then, he places a big order at Momocoa, a Southern-American-slash-Yucatecan barbecue joint in Merida run by Chef Paloma Ponce. All of the smoke stokes Rick’s inner pit master, so back in Chicago he makes short ribs with ancho BBQ sauce and pollo pibil.

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Mexico: One Plate at a Time

TV Series

200325m

Documentary

Now playing

Pit Cooking Sacred and Smoky

Season 11 · Episode 12 · Dec 2, 2016

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