Episode

Cooked: Fire

Name: Cooked: Fire
Released: 2016-02-19
Duration: 59 min
Cast: Michael Pollan

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Overview

With help from Aboriginal hunters and a barbecue pit master, Pollan shows how fire shaped human gastronomy, and weighs our duty to the animals we eat.

Details

Series: Cooked
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 2016-02-19
Runtime: 59 min

Episode context

Fire is Episode 1 in Season 1 of Cooked. It aired on 2016-02-19. The runtime is 59 min.

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