Episode
How Do They Do It?: Caviar, Porcelain, Soccer Cleats
Overview
How do they farm sturgeon for caviar? How do they mould centuries of history into the finest Japanese porcelain? How do they make world-class football boots?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2011-10-19
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Caviar, Porcelain, Soccer Cleats is Episode 12 in Season 8 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2011-10-19. The runtime is 22 min.
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