There were only tiny pictures online!
Sarah Wiener and the Kitchen kids is a documentary series which has nearly finished screening on SBS. I wish I had know about this show, because I’ve missed it all and it is GREAT! It follows chef Sarah Wiener and 12 kids to a rustic country house in Provence, where they cook together and learn about food and gardening and keeping pigs and things like that. In this week’s episode, Sarah fearlessly shows the kids how to deep fry a perfect Schnitzel, with a lot of splashing oil and a few burns thrown into the mix. The kids have a great time, despite the painful lessons. Later, pregnant piggy Terrine escapes from her pen, shooting off like a bullet with a low lying belly, followed closely behind by her pen mate. They take clippings from the garden, swim in the river, make apple fritters and bake bread from ancient leaven in a 20 loaf capacity wood fired oven. This. Show. Is. Great.
If you are listening SBS, please send me the whole series. Just burn it on a DVD, surely you could do that. I will not tell a soul. I really need to watch the episodes I missed….. Or better still, can’t you put them online? Then we can all watch.
You can catch this week’s episode on SBS Two : Saturday at 6.35
Within Australia SBS is uploading episodes to their website (although I think there are only two more left to show) Click here and then on the FULL EPISODES tab and scroll down (have your sound turned off as videos autostart over there. Ugh.) I can’t find the series anywhere online to buy on DVD…. Hopefully that will change!
xx Pip
PS : I also watched an AMAZING documentary on the SBS site about Meth labs and the drug industry. You might want to watch that too, if it’s your cup of tea? Very, very interesting. Lots of information about big drug companies selling TONS and TONS of ephedrine and pseudo ephedrine to Meth cooks. Ugh. Horrible. Ban cold and flu meds, I say.