From Scratch

Mile High City isn’t the steak and potatoes town it was and much of it has to do with James Beard award winning chef Jennifer Jasinski and her restaurant Rioja. David learns fly fishing, harvests a lamb, mills wheat and farms within the city limits.

David has his work cut out for him with a huge ingredient list that sends him up and down California. He attempts harvesting urchin, abalone, cauliflower, matsutake mushrooms, garlic, olives to make olive oil, quail, and rice to make saké.

David road trips around Kansas and Missouri on a mission from James Beard-nominated Chefs Johnny Leach and Helen Jo Leach at The Town Company, located in the Hotel Kansas City. Local farmers, ancient grist millers and artisanal butchers guide David.

In the land of wine, lamb and bread Davids mission is Chakapuli the dish that represents the start of spring. But trouble begins when he is sent up into the Caucuses Mountains on the most dangerous road in the world.