Episodes

13 episodes in this season

It's a Shore Thing

25 min

Fusion Revolution

25 min

Quest for Fire

25 min

The Capital of Hip

25 min

Welcome to Tequila

25 min

Mexico Unplugged

25 min

Super-Hero Sandwich

25 min

The Mothers of Invention

25 min

Go Global. Eat Local.

25 min

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Archaeology for Breakfast

25 min

E11

Muses for My Menu

25 min

E12

Tips and Salsa

25 min

E13

Mariachi Mania

25 min

Mexico: One Plate at a Time

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Archaeology for Breakfast

Season 4 · Episode 10 · Mar 17, 2006

We find Rick somewhere in the jungles of Mexico, pondering the great questions of the ancient world—like, “what was for breakfast?” Back in Chicago, he whips up a plate of Huevos Motuleños—Eggs Motul-Style, a heady, layered “short-stack” of Mexican breakfast favorites piled on a tortilla, including fried eggs, chorizo, cheese, peas, beans, plantains, cilantro and salsa. But instead of digging in, he decides to dig down a few layers, like a culinary archaeologist, and investigate just how Mexican—and just how ancient—these beloved ingredients are. That investigation takes him to a dairy stall in Mexico City’s cosmopolitan San Juan Market, a down-and-dirty pulqueria (a bar that serves pulque, a locally brewed “agave beer”), La Tequila restaurant (where we get a lesson in the ancient art of making salsa in a lava mortar called a molcajete), and a market stall that sells, among other delicacies of antiquity, edible bugs.

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Mexico: One Plate at a Time

TV Series

200325m

Documentary

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Archaeology for Breakfast

Season 4 · Episode 10 · Mar 17, 2006

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