Episode
How Do They Do It?: Duck Calls, Wasabi, Accordions
Overview
How do they craft accordions? How do they make the wasabi that puts a kick in Japan's raw fish? And how do they produce duck calls that can trick birds?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2011-08-05
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Duck Calls, Wasabi, Accordions is Episode 9 in Season 8 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2011-08-05. The runtime is 22 min.
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