Episode
How Do They Do It?: Taiko Drums, Green Factory, Pasta
Overview
How is a 700-year-old tree made into a two tonne Japanese drum? How can a factory produce thousands of cars and stay green? And how do Italians make great tasting...
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2011-12-08
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Taiko Drums, Green Factory, Pasta is Episode 15 in Season 8 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2011-12-08. The runtime is 22 min.
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