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If you're culinarily inspired – and you're probably if you're reading these pages – keep your remote (or your computer) handy this summer during the first of the upcoming programs. All have additional broadcasts so check the ads if it's too nice to be inside when the shows start to work.
On Sunday, tune in to "Iron Chef America" to watch Handsome Hog St. Paul's chef Justin Sutherland and the new pearl and thief of Stillwater while he brings his cooking Contemporary South at Kitchen Stadium for a battle with Iron Chief Alex Guarnaschelli. Who will claim the title? Chiefs Susan Feniger and Jonathan Waxman will decide. The competition takes place at 9:00 pm
Marcus Samuelsson the New York chef who led Aquavit in Minneapolis for five years, will host a new series of six documentary-style documentaries during his trip to the United States . the diversity of immigrants' traditions and cuisines in a program called "No Pbadport Required" on Tuesdays at 8 pm on TPT2 (and at other times). For the first episode, Samuelsson starts in Detroit while he meets immigrants from the Middle East. Later, weekly episodes connect him to the Vietnamese community of New Orleans, the Mexicans of Chicago, Indo-Guyanese immigrants from Queens to New York, to the Haitian people of Miami and to Ethiopian families in Washington, DC
. dream, "he said in a press release. "It inspired people from all over the world to come here, and what would America be like without all immigrants? Not so delicious! Not as tasty!" Samuelsson himself is an immigrant, born in Ethiopia, raised in Sweden and now an American citizen.The program will feature musicians, poets, chefs, business owners, artists, community leaders and home cooks in a look at culture and cuisine
And there's more: Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, the directors of Minneapolis Placettes, have turned their attention to immigrants and released a film about a family of Somali refugees in Minnesota, as part of A series they call "The Immigrant Family Dinner Project."
The film was premiered at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival and can be viewed on Vimeo at vimeo.com/277116873 or on Faceb ook at tinyurl.com/y9ytrx5c or on their website theperennialplate.com
Somali history, which ends with a meal, tells of the 20-year family in refugee camps, the separation of members from family for five years and their meeting in the United States
LEE SVITAK DEAN
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