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Food Markets: In the Belly of the City Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
Florence - Mercato Centrale
52 mins
The Renaissance capitol is where the city food market as a concept was born. More than 1000 years ago farmers from the countryside came to the main square of Florence and gave their goods to the craftsmen, merchants and bankers for money. The tradition is still alive today and walking through the stalls of the Mercato Centrale in San Lorenzo one can taste the best food treasures Tuscany has to offer. From the olive oil of the Fiesole hills to the onions of the medieval borough of Certaldo and up to the Natural Reserve of San Marcello with its Tuscan cured meats, we discover a food region where the simple and genuine tastes are king and where one of the oldest food traditions in the world is constantly reinventing itself.
Episode 2
Toulouse - Marché Victor Hugo
50 mins
Unquestionably, there's no better place than the centrally-located and well-covered food market of Marché Victor Hugo to get a general view and to feel the beating heart of Toulouse's vivid food scene. Here, one can find aromatic black truffles, fragrant Rocamadour cheese, tender foie gras, and white beans for a truly traditional cassoulet dish, as the Michelin-starred chef, Michel Sarràn, introduces us to the town's hidden food treasures.
Episode 3
Zagreb - Dolac Market
52 mins
Looking at the "Kumice" selling their baskets full of vegetables and cheese on the Dolac market stalls in Zagreb is like going back in time. These ladies come to town bringing only what they grow in their gardens. Croatia is the last country that joined the EU, and visiting its food market is the best way to embrace Eastern and Western Europe in one look, and to taste it in one bite. The country goes from the breathtaking Mediterranean islands to the Austrian Alps in a few hours drive. The market offers humble greens, fish freshly caught and simple Baltic snacks but surprises us with an internationally awarded cheese from the island of Pag, and Turkeys breed uniquely on the hills overlooking the town.
Episode 4
Riga - Centraltirgus
52 mins
Latvia is a small country yet Riga Centraltirgus is the biggest city food market in Europe. Located just aside the Old Town of the city famous for its Art-Nouveau architecture, the market astonishes its visitors with specialties coming from the country's extended forests, its birch groves, flatlands and thousands of rivers. Century old bread making, fishing and hemp cultivating traditions were kept strong against the soviet based agriculture and animal breeding systems. Today the best of these traditions and food making knowhow is maintained and pushed fast-forward into the digital era by young and curious chefs, bloggers and pop-up restaurants.
Episode 5
Freiburg - Münstermarkt
50 mins
Freiburg is the 'green' city of Germany and surrounding its imposing gothic cathedral there is the Münstermarkt, its food market. Every morning, six days a week the farmers from the Black Forest bring their trout and herb pestoes, the wild berries and their world famous smoked ham to the city. Others come from the hills of the KaiserSthül - the mild climate area producing one of Germany's most important white wines and the renowned white asparagus. At the enchanting open-air market the customers know that "we are what we eat" and be it a vegan wurst or a traditional cheese cake, it is how it is made and where it comes from that makes it a quality food.
