From Scratch

Chef Gunnar Karl of Dill in Reykjavik challenges David to source a traditional Icelandic cod dish. David goes dry suit diving in the North Atlantic Sea, learns how to make salt and even smokes butter with lamb dung.

Broken Spanish chef, Ray Garcia and David try to reproduce Ray's famous chicharron taco. A wild boar hunt, followed by a trip to Jalisco to harvest corn, chiles and make tequila, with a stop at the iconic Jose Cuervo.

David works with Michelin starred chef, Christiano Andreini, to recreate his coastal Sardinian dishes. David dives for octopus, goes lobster fishing and learns to make ricotta cheese from scratch on a mountain-side goat farm.

David Moscow's epicurean journey takes him to Utah, where he experiences all the steps of making Trout Piscatore with James Beard award winner Galen Zamorra. First, David must harvest the Four Corners Potato. This tiny tuber has a big history as possibly the first domesticated plant in the U.S. But as the clock ticks, he desperately tries to catch a fish for a dish whose three main ingredients are trout, trout and trout.

David Moscow's journeys take him to Kenya, where humanity all began, to create a meal from scratch with Chef Ariel Moscardi. The tentpole ingredients are plants gathered from the African plains and jungles and topped off with some goat. What David doesn't realize is that while harvesting the ingredients from one end of Kenya to the other, he would get an up-close glimpse of the 500 year old Maasai culture as it bumps up against the "fast" economic revolution taking place in the country.

David Moscow finds himself on a bow hunt for elk in Sheridan, Wyoming for Native American Chef Antonia Armenta-Miller of Bonafide Food Truck, named one of Food Network's top 50 food trucks. Antonia's signature dish includes an elk accented it with horseradish cream and a buffalo berry/wild plum sauce, all found within 20 minutes of Sheridan. David's mission is to replicate this dish from scratch. But he learns fast that bowhunting to catch an elk is far more difficult than it looks.