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Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
How the Past Informs the Future
Season 6
Episode 610
Can our ancestral past help us as we move into the future? Our ancestors evolved to ensure survival, creating settlements, becoming agrarian, growing food, processing food and preserving food. They revered, respected and feared nature for its power over humanity. Today we cook to honor our past as we visit mystical Matera and learn how ancient foods still inform how we eat in our modern world.
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Eating like an Italian is holding a deep respect for food and tradition.
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Christina meets a chef who adapts Italian dishes to be healthier and kinder to the planet.
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Christina cooks with an instinctive chef who to creates luscious meals for each customer.
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What is Italy doing for sustainability?
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How can we manage stress when stress is a part of life? Italians have a clue.
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In a home kitchen in Tuscany, Christina creates a luscious meal with her friend Sandro.
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Eating locally-grown food has become mainstream, but what does “local food” actually mean?
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How can we adapt our lifestyles to step a little lighter on our planet?
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Can kale save the planet? What is green living and why should we live that way?
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Choosing more plant and less animal food intake is our best shot at making a difference.
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Travel to Pompeii to cook with one of the coolest, strongest and finest cooks I know.
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The Beatles sang it and it has become an anthem for living well.