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Video: In Mali, Thousands of Fisherman Empty a Lake in 15 Minutes
This clip from BBC One's documentary series Human Planet shows what happens the one day a year when the Dogon people in Mali are allowed to fish in the sacred Lake Antogo in the village of Bamba. It only takes 15 minutes for thousands of fishermen to clear out the lake.DVD Giveaway: A Connecticut Hot Dog Tour
For the final week of the Hot Dog of the Week's Connecticut Hot Dog Tour, we're giving away five copies of the DVD and one deluxe set, which includes both the DVD and an 11x14 original art print from the Connecticut Hot Dog Tour series. To enter to win one of the five prizes, just tell us your favorite hot dog toppings in the comments section.A Connecticut Hot Dog Tour: Blackie's Hot Dogs
A Connecticut Hot Dog Tour is a brand-new (and terrific) documentary from filmmaker Mark Kotlinski that takes an in-depth look at ten of Connecticut's most interesting and delicious hot dogs. Kotlinski really digs deep into the history of these places. One such place is Blackie's, an old-school hot dog joint that has really come to define Connecticut as a hot dog mecca.Video: Use Both Hands (A Bagger's Anthem) from 'Ready, Set, Bag!'
Documentary Ready, Set, Bag! follows eight state champion baggers from across the country working to win the National Grocers Association's Best Bagger competition. One of those baggers, Roger Chen from Alabama, is the subject of this uplifting auto-tuned anthem about bagging and practicing until you can't get it wrong.The Kings of Pastry, a Documentary About the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Competition
The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (M.O.F.) competition is the ne plus ultra of pastry-making. Chronicled in the documentary "Kings of Pastry" by D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, it makes Top Chef seems like child's play.Meet & Eat: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis of Truck Farm, a Farm on a Truck
Longtime friends and documentary filmmakers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis broke onto the food scene with their thought-provoking documentary, King Corn. Still hopeful to arouse new interest in agriculture, the two are now attempting to prove that farming can happen in even the most urban of areas. Despite many skeptical looks, they are successfully growing vegetables in the bed of a pickup truck! I chatted with Curt and Ian about their current projects and their hope for the future of urban agriculture.Video: Being A Fish In Japan: Tuna
Japanese fishmonger/rockstar "Captain" Tsurizao Morita started his fish-themed band Gyoko ("fishing port") to get people to eat more fish and learn to appreciate it. Besides singing about fish, part of the way he does this is by filleting a tuna's head on stage and describing how to cook it. Watch Morita in action, learn what makes tuna "rock," and get a look inside Tsukiji, the world's biggest fish market, in this segment from the series Being a Fish In Japan.Serious Green: Movies That Go Beyond Food Inc
©iStockphoto.com/thebroker This summer's Food, Inc. has brought food consciousness in the U.S. to a whole new level. If Food, Inc. made you hungry for more info on food production in the U.S., you should get your hands on one of the movies below. These films range in theme from school lunches to genetically modified foods. People can talk and write about food production and industrial feed lots till they're blue in the face, but seeing sometimes makes all the difference. Food, Inc. was groundbreaking because it was the first enviro-food film to be screened at major movie theaters across the country. But the small, food-focused films that follow after the jump played at independent festivals and then never seemed...In Videos: Man Sleeps With Pigs for BBC Documentary
It’s one thing to read about the conditions in which factory-farm animals are kept. But it’s another to actually live the life of a pig slated for bacon. For a recent BBC documentary, titled My Life as an Animal actor Richard da Costa spent four days in the pigpen—sleeping on a bed of straw, feeding on soy-alfalfa pellets (“so disgusting that you would rather go hungry”), and dodging the frequent tussles of his snorty pen-mates. Did bonding with the piggies turn da Costa off meat for good? “It was two months before I could eat pig after coming out of the farm,” he writes in the corresponding article. But his aversion didn’t last. “I finally cracked…I was lured back...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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