Mexico: One Plate at a Time is a television series starring chef Rick Bayless

Rick Bayless

Rick Bayless is an American chef who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations. He is perhaps best known for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time....

 distributed to public television stations by WTTW

WTTW

WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...

. The show is currently broadcasting its seventh season. Reruns are shown on PBS's Create channel and on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

's Live Well Network digital subchannel.

Season One

Directed by Chris Gyoury

1. The Whole Enchilada
   Enchilada
   An enchilada is a corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a chili pepper sauce. Enchiladas can be filled with a variety of ingredients, including meat, cheese, beans, potatoes, vegetables, seafood or combinations.-Etymology:...
   
   
2. Let’s Talk Tacos
3. The Straight Cheese on Quesadillas
4. Sopes and Gorditas: Masa Appeal
5. Tacos from the Ground Up
6. Ceviche
   Ceviche
   Ceviche is a seafood dish popular in the coastal regions of the Americas, especially Central and South America. The dish is typically made from fresh raw fish marinated in citrus juices such as lemon or lime and spiced with chilli peppers. Additional seasonings such as onion, salt,...
   
    in the Limelight
7. Green Sauce
   Green Sauce
   Green sauce is the name of several different sauces containing mainly herbs, namely the Italian salsa verde, the French sauce verte, the Spanish salsa verde and the German Grüne Soße or Frankfurter Grie Soß .- History :...
   
    and Tomatillo
   Tomatillo
   The tomatillo is a plant of the nightshade family, related to the cape gooseberry, bearing small, spherical and green or green-purple fruit of the same name. Tomatillos are a staple in Mexican cuisine. Tomatillos are grown as annuals throughout the Western Hemisphere...
   
   s: Mexican Vine Dining
8. A La Mexicana: The Soul of Mexican Cooking
9. Fruit, Aguas, Ices & Paletas: The Ripe Stuff
10. Rice
    Rice
    Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...
    
     to the Occasion
11. Caldo de Pollo & Tortilla Soup: The Super Bowl
12. Chiles Rellenos
    Chile relleno
    The chile relleno, literally "stuffed chile," is a dish of Mexican cuisine that originated in the city of Puebla. It consists of a roasted fresh poblano pepper , sometimes substituted with non-traditional Hatch green chile, Anaheim, pasilla or even jalapeño chili pepper...
    
     and Other Cool Stuff
13. Fish a la Veracruzana: How to Fish for Compliments
14. Carne Asada
    Carne asada
    In Mexican cuisine, "Carne asada" is an item that consists of thin beef steak. The meat can be marinated by rubbing with olive oil and salt or with spice rubs such as lemon and pepper or garlic salt, lime, or Worcestershire sauce, before being cooked on a grill. The meat can be served alone or...
    
    : The Great Steak Out
15. Adobo
    Adobo
    Adobo is the immersion of raw food into a preparation, in the form of a stock , of different components, including paprika , oregano, salt, garlic, and vinegar — mixed according to the place of origin and the food with which it is intended to be used—primarily to preserve and enhance the flavor of...
    
    : Chiles Cut and Dried
16. Beans Inside and Out
17. Barbacoa
    Barbacoa
    Barbacoa is a form of cooking meat that originated in the Caribbean with the Taíno people, from which the term "barbecue" derives. In contemporary Mexico it generally refers to meats or a whole sheep slow-cooked over an open fire, or more traditionally, in a hole dug in the ground covered with...
    
     and Cochinita Pibil: Down to Earth Cooking
18. Mojo & Escabeche
    Escabeche
    Escabeche is a typical Mediterranean cuisine which refers to both a dish of poached or fried fish that is marinated in an acidic mixture before serving, and to the marinade itself...
    
    : The Light Fantastic
    The Light Fantastic
    The Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published in 1986. The title is a quote from a poem by John Milton and in the original context referred to dancing lightly with extravagance....
    
    
19. Three Hot Tamales
20. Seafood
    Seafood
    Seafood is any form of marine life regarded as food by humans. Seafoods include fish, molluscs , crustaceans , echinoderms . Edible sea plants, such as some seaweeds and microalgae, are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia...
    
     Stew: The Perfect Warm-Up
21. Beyond Chips & Salsa
22. Holy Mole: Mexico City
    Mexico City
    Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
    
    
23. Chocolate
    Chocolate
    Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...
    
    : The Magic Ingredient
24. Green Mole
    Mole (sauce)
    Mole is the generic name for a number of sauces used in Mexican cuisine, as well as for dishes based on these sauces...
    
     & Pipian: Lessons of the Mayoras
25. Cajeta
    Cajeta
    Cajeta is a Mexican confection of thickened syrup usually made of sweetened caramelised milk.According to chef Rick Bayless, the name for cajeta came from the Spanish phrase al punto de cajeta, which means a liquid thickened to the point at which a spoon drawn through the liquid reveals the bottom...
    
     & Flan
    Flan
    Crème caramel , flan , or caramel custard is a custard dessert with a layer of soft caramel on top, as opposed to crème brûlée, which is custard with a hard caramel top...
    
    : Plaza
    Plaza
    Plaza is a Spanish word related to "field" which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. All through Spanish America, the plaza mayor of each center of administration held three closely related institutions: the cathedral, the cabildo or administrative center, which might be...
    
     Sweets
26. Pozole
    Pozole
    Pozole is a ritually significant, traditional pre-Columbian soup or stew from Mexico. Pozole was mentioned in Fray Bernardino de Sahagún's "General History of the Things of New Spain" circa 1500 CE. It is made from nixtamalized cacahuazintle corn, with meat, usually pork, chicken, turkey, pork...
    
    : The Life of the Party

Season Two

Directed by Chris Gyoury

1. Salsa Lessons
2. Pizza
   Pizza
   Pizza is an oven-baked, flat, disc-shaped bread typically topped with a tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings.Originating in Italy, from the Neapolitan cuisine, the dish has become popular in many parts of the world. An establishment that makes and sells pizzas is called a "pizzeria"...
   
    of the Three Cultures
3. A Midsummer Night’s Taquisa
4. Open All Night
5. Keeping the Flame
6. Craving Crustaceans
7. Kidding Around
8. Garden Spots
9. Dessert Oasis
10. That’s a Mole
    Mole (sauce)
    Mole is the generic name for a number of sauces used in Mexican cuisine, as well as for dishes based on these sauces...
    
    ! An Elegant Dinner for Eight
11. Timeless Tamales
12. Cocktails at Rick’s Place
13. Torta! Torta! Torta!

Season Three

Directed by Chris Gyoury

1. Mexico’s Real Independence Day
   History of Mexico
   The history of Mexico, a country located in the southern portion of North America, covers a period of more than two millennia. First populated more than 13,000 years ago, the country produced complex indigenous civilizations before being conquered by the Spanish in the 16th Century.Since the...
   
   
2. Antojito
   Antojito
   An antojito is a Mexican street snack designed to satisfy a craving . Many antojitos have become regional icons of Mexican cuisine and can be found in almost every region of Mexico, although there are a few local variants that are exclusive to a specific place.It is widely accepted that an antojito...
   
    Jones
3. Thrills and Chiles
4. Lend Me Your Ears
   Maize
   Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...
   
   
5. Tropical Cool
6. Hip ‘n’ Happenin’
7. Health in the Balance
8. A Sterling Birthday
9. Savoring Sundays
10. Acapulco
    Acapulco
    Acapulco is a city, municipality and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semi-circular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico’s history...
    
    —Jump Right In
11. Chorizo
    Chorizo
    Chorizo is a term encompassing several types of pork sausages originating from the Iberian Peninsula.In English, it is usually pronounced , , or , but sometimes ....
    
     Hunter
12. Color on the Palate
13. The Mysteries of Chili
    Chili pepper
    Chili pepper is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The term in British English and in Australia, New Zealand, India, Malaysia and other Asian countries is just chilli without pepper.Chili peppers originated in the Americas...
    
    

Season Four

Directed by Nancy Bardawil, Luminair Film Productions, Inc.

1. It's a Shore Thing
2. Fusion
   Fusion cuisine
   Fusion cuisine combines elements of various culinary traditions while not being categorized per any one particular cuisine style, and can pertain to innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s.-Categories and types:...
   
    Revolution
3. Quest for Fire
4. The Capital of Hip
   Hip (slang)
   Hip is a slang term meaning fashionably current and in the know. Hip is the opposite of square or prude.Hip, like cool, does not refer to one specific quality. What is considered hip is continuously changing. The term hip is said to have originated in African American Vernacular English in the...
   
   
5. Welcome to Tequila
   Tequila
   Tequila is a spirit made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands of the western Mexican state of Jalisco....
   
   
6. Mexico Unplugged
7. Super-Hero Sandwich
8. The Mothers of Invention
9. Go Global. Eat Local.
10. Archaeology for Breakfast
11. Muses for My Menu
12. Tips and Salsa
13. Mariachi
    Mariachi
    Mariachi is a genre of music that originated in the State of Jalisco, in Mexico. It is an integration of stringed instruments highly influenced by the cultural impacts of the historical development of Western Mexico. Throughout the history of mariachi, musicians have experimented with brass, wind,...
    
     Mania

Season Five

Directed by Chris Gyoury, Luminair Film Productions, Inc.

1. Eat, Drink and Be Mérida
   Mérida, Yucatán
   Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about from the Gulf of Mexico coast...
   
   
2. Fresh Chiles, Hot & Cold
3. Mysteries of the Deep
4. A Pig, a Pit, and a Plan
5. Savoring Citrus
   Citrus
   Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the rue family, Rutaceae. Citrus is believed to have originated in the part of Southeast Asia bordered by Northeastern India, Myanmar and the Yunnan province of China...
   
   
6. Tropical Sweet Tooth
   Sweet tooth
   Sweet Tooth may refer to:* Sweet Tooth , a character in the Twisted Metal video game series* Sweet Tooth , a strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips, and later Buster...
   
   
7. Rick & Jacques. Two Chefs at Playa
8. Yesterday, Today & Tamales
9. Yucatan
   Yucatán
   Yucatán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 106 municipalities and its capital city is Mérida....
   
    Snack-a-Thon
10. Modern Mayan
    Maya peoples
    The Maya people constitute a diverse range of the Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America. The overarching term "Maya" is a collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term...
    
    
11. Paste Sensations
12. Show Me the Honey
    Honey
    Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans...
    
    
13. Hacienda
    Hacienda
    Hacienda is a Spanish word for an estate. Some haciendas were plantations, mines, or even business factories. Many haciendas combined these productive activities...
    
     Renaissance

Season Six

Directed by Chris Gyoury, Luminair Film Productions, Inc.

1. Return to Hacienda
   Hacienda
   Hacienda is a Spanish word for an estate. Some haciendas were plantations, mines, or even business factories. Many haciendas combined these productive activities...
   
   
2. A Man, A Pan, Paella
   Paella
   Paella is a Valencian rice dish that originated in its modern form in the mid-19th century near lake Albufera, a lagoon in Valencia, on the east coast of Spain. Many non-Spaniards view paella as Spain's national dish, but most Spaniards consider it to be a regional Valencian dish...
   
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3. Beach Blanket Barbeque
4. Let's Do Brunch
   Brunch
   Brunch is a meal eaten between breakfast and lunch. The word is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch.-Origin of the word:The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine which wrote that the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for "Saturday-night...
   
   
5. Taquisa for Ten
6. Ice Cream
   Ice cream
   Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
   
    Social Skills
7. Seafood Cocktail Party
8. The Whole Tamalada
9. Summer and Smoke
10. Barbacoa Block Party
11. Fiesta in the Fast Lane
12. Tequila
    Tequila
    Tequila is a spirit made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands of the western Mexican state of Jalisco....
    
    Flights and Bites
13. Street Fare Tonight!

Season Seven

Directed by Scott Dummler, Luminair Film Productions, Inc.

1. Tacos on Fire!
2. Chiles Rellenos: The Stuff of Passion
3. Guac on the Wild Side
4. Salsas That Cook
5. Triple Torta-Thon
6. A Ceviche State of Mind
7. The Soul of Mole
8. The Case for Quesadillas
9. Confessions of a Carnita-vore
10. Tacos Hola!
11. A Whole New Enchilada
12. Chorizo Made Easy
13. Liquid Gold

External links

• Rick Bayless' Website
• Episode Information and recipes for season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6