Monday, June 24, 2013

Kitchen ga Hashiru

Kitchen ga Hashiru (English: Go, Kitchen, Go!) is a current cooking show on NHK. I love it! I don't enjoy most cooking shows nowadays because of the reality show angle; all the fierce competition and harsh criticism. I don't like seeing people crying because they failed.

Kitchen Wagon

 

The host of this show travels in a yellow kitchen wagon to various areas of Japan. Each week he is accompanied by one chef. They visit a few local food producers (farms, fishers, specialty food makers, etc.) and see how things are made or procured, and talk to the people. Then the chef takes all the food gathered and makes a delicious meal. The food producers all come together and get to taste the interesting menu. Very sweet interactions between everyone. A bit like a travel show too, you learn about the local area.

I couldn't find any video online, maybe because I'm searching from a Japanese IP address. It airs on NHK World too. Here are some links.

Kitchen ga Hashiru (NHK in Japanese)

Go, Kitchen, Go! (NHK World in English)

 

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