Episodes

Tuesday May 14, 2024
Middle Eastern Platter at UMass-Amherst Dining
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
This Middle Eastern platter with grilled chicken kebabs, warm hummus, chickpeas, and roasted vegetables is a regular item served at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst student dining. Bob Bankert, Executive Chef at the university’s dining services, shows us how to make the dish. He likes to offer the students a customizable topping, which, for this dish, is sumac onions and pickled watermelon radish.
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Monday May 13, 2024
Interview with Chef Alex Ong from UMass-Amherst Dining
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
Chef Alex Ong is director of culinary excellence at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Dining Services, and brings the principles of plant-forward cooking to a high volume setting. He serves more than 50,000 meals a day at four dining halls. While 6% of the students are vegan and 70% are omnivores, Chef Alex Ong strives to serve all students with sustainable meals full of colorful vegetables. His plant-forward menus are performing well, and Princeton Review has awarded University of Massachusetts-Amherst “best campus dining in the United States” seven years in a row.
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Sunday May 12, 2024
A Chef’s Tour of New York’s Union Square Greenmarket
Sunday May 12, 2024
Sunday May 12, 2024
Gonzalo Gout, Chief Operating Officer at Casamata, and Gustavo Garnica, Chef de Cuisine at Cosme, tour the Union Square greenmarket. Casamata and Cosme are Chef Enrique Olvera’s two New York City-based restaurants that serve modern Mexican cuisine. They have developed relationships with farmers from the Hudson Valley and search for seasonally available produce to inspire the menus at Casamata and Cosme.
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Saturday May 11, 2024
Corn Tomato Tlayudas at Cosme
Saturday May 11, 2024
Saturday May 11, 2024
Gustavo Garnica is chef de cuisine at Cosme, Enrique Olvera’s plant-forward Mexican restaurant in New York City. Here he shows us how he makes tlayudas, a traditional Oaxacan dish comprised of a fresh corn tortilla with all sorts of delicious toppings. Chef Gustavo tops the tlayuda with a puree of caramelized onions, cherry tomatoes tossed in charred habañero vinaigrette, onion escabeche, and greens.
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Friday May 10, 2024
Sweet Potato Tamales at Cosme
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
Gustavo Garnica is chef de cuisine at Cosme, an Enrique Olvera restaurant in New York City that serves contemporary Mexican cuisine with locally produced ingredients. He shows us how he makes sweet potato tamales. He fills the tamales with roasted sweet potato puree, and tops them with an aerated sweet potato and guajillo sauce, purslane salad, and sweet potato chips.
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Thursday May 09, 2024
Interview with Chef Gustavo Garnica at Cosme
Thursday May 09, 2024
Thursday May 09, 2024
Gustavo Garnica is chef de cuisine at Cosme, an Enrique Olvera restaurant that serves contemporary cuisine rooted in Mexican flavors and traditions, while celebrating local ingredients from the Hudson Valley. In this interview, Chef Garnica talks about the plant-forward menu at Cosme, respecting ingredients, and the relationships he has forged with local producers and farmers.
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Wednesday May 08, 2024
Grilled Maitaike Tacos at Oxomoco
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Chef Emilio Cerra shows us how he makes grilled maitake mushroom tacos at Oxomoco, a plant-forward Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn. He par-cooks the maitakes in mushroom broth, then grills them over a wood-fired grill. He tops the tacos with herbed ricotta, the grilled maitake, maitake soy butter, and some sous vide egg yolk salsa.
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Tuesday May 07, 2024
Carrot Tostadas at Oxomoco
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Emilio Cerra is chef de cuisine at Oxomoco, a plant-forward Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn. He shows us how he makes a tostada topped with various carrot preparations. He tops the tostada with coconut yogurt, grilled and braised carrots, blanched and marinated carrots, carrot habañero salsa, and finally dressed raw carrots.
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