David Moscow
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"In an effort to help us reconnect with the food that sustains our lives, David Moscow has spent four years going around the world, meeting with rock-star chefs, and sourcing ingredients within local food ecosystems -- experiences taking place in over twenty countries that include milking a water buffalo to make mozzarella for pizza in Italy; harvesting oysters in Long Island Sound and honey from wild bees in Kenya; and making patis in the Philippines,...
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From Scratch follows actor/producer/adventurer David Moscow on a worldwide expedition of making meals literally from scratch. After being presented with a dish from a Chef or home cook, David will have to hunt, gather, forage, and grow each ingredient to remake that meal. Does the meal need butter? Well, then David has to milk a cow and churn it until he has butter. No shortcuts⁵Salt will be sourced from the ocean in Iceland, tequila harvested from...
3) Newsies
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July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....