Cooked: Season 1 (2016)

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Part I: Fire

Air date: Feb 19, 2016

In this mesmerizing episode, director Alex Gibney introduces us to the essential idea of how cooking made us human and how it began: with fire. Through fire cooking, Gibney links the past to the present, beginning with a group of aboriginal people from Western Australia, the Martu, who travel from the modern conveniences of home to hunt in the outback on the weekend. The Martu, who have rarely been filmed, represent the importance of hanging on to traditions that bring us back to the land and help us understand where food comes from.

Part II: Water

Air date: Feb 19, 2016

Pot cooking in India is examined. Also, Michael discusses the possible downsides of eating highly processed food.

Part III: Air

Air date: Feb 19, 2016

Director Ryan Miller opens with a lyrical scene of a Moroccan mother making bread while talking to her child about the ancient traditions of baking. From this simplest of home kitchens, the episode takes the viewer on a journey to understand how this most elemental of foods feeds and interconnects cultures around the world.

Part IV: Earth

Air date: Feb 19, 2016

Of all the traditional methods he explored, says Pollan, fermentation is the most mysterious: the work of "cooking" is done not with heat, but by microbes. It is also more common in our diets than we realize, involved in a third of the foods we eat. Director Peter Bull travels to Peru to visit women who chew yuca root and collectively spit it out into a vat so enzymes in their saliva will jump-start the fermentation process for the making of the traditional beverage masato.