Join Christopher Kimball and the cast of America’s Test Kitchen, the most-watched cooking show on public television, to learn the basics of great home cooking. From French Chicken in a Pot to Almost No-Knead Bread, Crispy Breaded Pork Chops to Blueberry Pie, these recipes will work the first time you try them, thanks to the dozens of test cooks who develop, refine, and test recipes again and again until they arrive at the very best versions. In addition, this collection includes honest taste tests of supermarket ingredients, detailed ratings of indispensable kitchen equipment and tools, and helpful kitchen science tips so that you can make informed choices when shopping. Learning to become a better cook has never been this foolproof or fun! These DVDs also include printable versions of all 52 recipes!
Producers: PBS Distribution
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David Macaulay: Roman City
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay’s acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in Verbonia, a fictional city in Gaul. A well-planned town with all modern conveniences, it is threatened by conflict between conquerors and conquered. Macaulay also visits Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Nimes, Orange, and Rome, to view actual Roman architecture and engineering greatness.
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A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast with America’s Favorite Chefs salutes cooking traditions across the globe and represents the diversity of food and culture that make America the world’s great melting pot. Join public television chefs Jose Andres, Lidia Bastianich, Rick Bayless, Chris Kimball, Ruth Reichl, and Ming Tsai as each chef cooks up a single course to create a complete moveable feast that starts with appetizers and ends with dessert.
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Cry for Help
This primetime special features first-person stories from adolescents who are confronting depression, anxiety and mental illness. From depressed, suicidal teens to parents unaware of what may be troubling their own children to those on the front lines of prevention and care, CRY FOR HELP provides a rare and important look at mental illness among young adults.
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Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound – Public Performance
This program, specifically designed to help people get the most from their vision and hearing as they age, considers how these senses change throughout life and what people can do to keep them healthy and fully functional.
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David Macaulay: Cathedral
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France’s most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.
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David Macaulay: Castle
CASTLE combines colorful animation with live-action documentary sequences to tell the story of a 13th-century Welsh castle. Author David Macaulay, who wrote and illustrated the best-selling book of the same title, leads viewers on a castle tour, explaining its cultural and sociological significance and its architectural design. Detailed animation dramatizes the building of the castle and portrays the lifestyle of the early inhabitants.
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David Macaulay: Pyramid
How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology, and religions of Egypt’s people, combining live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II and buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.
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Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon – Home Use
TEN9EIGHT chronicles the inspirational stories of several teens from low income communities (from Harlem to Compton and all points in between) as they compete in an annual business plan competition. By learning how to be entrepreneurs, many of these students can now forge futures and destinies they never thought possible.
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Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice – Pubic Performance
The Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off to the Red Planet in August 2007. This film chronicles the meticulous preparation through blastoff. The Phoenix Mars Lander scheduled to land on the Martian surface on May 25, 2008. Once on the surface, scientists from around the world will gather to search for water in the form of ice under the planet’s surface.