Premieres: September 17
Airs: Thursdays, 9pm ET
Network: Food Network
Hosted By Jeff Corwin
What’s It All About? Explorer, environmentalist and television host Jeff Corwin switches tacks in this series: Instead of protecting wildlife species, he’s eating them. Traveling around the globe, from Morocco to Peru, Thailand to New England, Corwin connects with the people in each locale on one of the universal points that we all have in common — food. “We look at food differently in Western culture, sometimes — specifically in American culture,” Corwin explains. “We often eat fast, we often eat in large quantities, and we sort of get stuck on our own little radar screens. And basically, I want the viewer to just jump in the fry pan, take a chance and see what people eat around the world.”
More than that, Corwin hopes to illustrate the role food has played in the development of civilization, both within individual communities and across cultural boundaries. “My mission for this series is to really explore, for me, how food is the binder, the cement of human culture. It brings forward a history of the community, and also looks at how people around the world that don’t have refrigeration, that don’t have access to all the technology that we use for eating — how they survive.”
