LEARN/CREATE (MT)

9:30 pm 

Essential Pepin  "Easy and Elegant Seafood"  NULL

10:00 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Here's The Beef"  NULL

10:30 pm 

Burt Wolf: What We Eat  "How Sweet It Is: The Story of Sugar"  Sugar started out in Asia, traveled to the Middle East and then to Europe first as a medicine and then as a rare spice. During his second voyage in 1493, Columbus brought it to the Caribbean where it changed into a common necessity, became a key element in the Caribbean slave trade and an early example of capitalist manufacturing. We'll find out why people who had a sweet tooth had a better chance of surviving than people who didn't and how sugar became the basis for England's international trade, a key element in the control of Britain's working class, and an essential part of the temperance movement. D

11:00 pm 

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence  "Ticket to Provence"  NULL

11:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Portugal's Heartland"  Rick eats barnacles in an old fishing town, marches with pilgrims, and views riches of the country's Golden Age.G