Mexico: One Plate at a Time - Season 11 Episode 12 Pit Cooking Sacred and Smoky
Cooking in underground pits is an elemental part of Yucatecan cooking. In fact, it’s downright sacred, as we’ll see during the preparation of mucbil pollo at an intimate candlelit Hanal Pixan ceremony (think of it as the Yucatán’s version of Dias de Los Muertos.) Rick heads to Yaxunah to see the entire process of making cochinita pibil, from the digging of the pit to the garnishing of the tacos. Rick also visits the smoky ovens in Temozón, a village known throughout Yucatán for its purveyors of smoked meats. Then, he places a big order at Momocoa, a Southern-American-slash-Yucatecan barbecue joint in Merida run by Chef Paloma Ponce. All of the smoke stokes Rick’s inner pit master, so back in Chicago he makes short ribs with ancho BBQ sauce and pollo pibil.
First Air Date: Jan 10, 2003
Last Air date: Jun 24, 2019
Season: 12 Season
Episode: 168 Episode
Runtime: 25 minutes
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The Hunt for Caribbean Lobster
Tour of Traditions
Off the Beaten Path Playa del Carmen
Cerviches Gone Wild
Cooking Like a Local
Love of Live Fire Cooking
Baking up Comfort
Splendor of Yucatan Enchanting Markets
A Place of Deeply Rooted Innovation
Chocolate Dreams Cacao Fantasies
Dreaming of Sustainable Agriculture
Pit Cooking Sacred and Smoky
Examining the Yucatans Natural Resources