A new TV cook show titled “The Farm” starts airing February 5th on UNC-TV at 8:30 PM. It’s a different kind of food program.
Former North Carolina resident Kevin Rhoades is the director behind this exciting new series. His company, Rocket Surgery Entertainment, is the producer of “The Farm.”
Rhoades invites you to join chef Ian Knauer on his family farm where he will show you how to live off the land in grand style. Not the typical “dump-and-stir” cooking program, you’ll feel like you’re a dinner guest at Knauer’s homeplace, a rustic farm that has been in his family for generations.
Rhoades also called on his high-school buddy Brian Low, a Wilkes County-based musician, to provide much of the music for the new television series.
The series will take an idyllic tour of the farm … harvesting food from the garden with Knauer at your side … fishing in local trout streams … then winding up in the kitchen to prepare a gourmet meal with all the fresh and natural ingredients at hand.
Knauer’s recipes are easy to follow, and his instructions are as straightforward as 1-2-3. You’ll be amazed at how simple it is to be an old-fashioned cook with modern taste buds.
In addition to preparing amazing dishes, he will lead you through such do-it-yourself projects as building your own smoker, how to be a bee keeper, or roasting a whole pig.
Learn how to keep your own bees and cook a honey feast including Chipotle-Honey Glazed Ribs.
Bees are the most important farm member. Learn how to keep your own, harvest honey and cook a honey feast including Chipotle-Honey Glazed Ribs and Honey Cake.
As a host, you will find Ian warm and inviting — a refreshing break from all those over-the-top, screaming-in-your-face food programs found so abundantly on television today.
Airing on PBS and the Create Network, “The Farm” is a jewel of a food show all the food network missed out on.
“You don’t have to be a foodie to love this show,” says Knauer, “but it might turn you into one once you view the mouth-watering dishes.”
Rocket Surgery Entertainment takes food shows to the next level with cinema-type production that makes you feel like you are watching a feature film instead of a TV cooking show.
Director Kevin Rhoades is a veteran of television food shows such as “Emeral Green,” “The Paula Deen Show,” and “Big Daddy’s Kitchen.” He says, “This is my chance to do a cooking program the way I’d like to see it done — as a friendly visit to a master chef’s own home, showing how to cook with farm-fresh foods, make it simple.”
In that quest, celebrity host Ian Knauer takes you out of the television studio, out of the commercial restaurant, out of the supermarket chain … inviting you to walk with him across a farm, take a stroll in the woods, dip a hook in a mountain stream, step into a real kitchen and make the kind of food you’d enjoy eating rather than fuss with an unfathomable fusion of cooking styles that you’ll never try more than once.
“Storytelling in a cooking show is unusual,” admits the director. “But Ian is a great storyteller, a country gentleman of sorts. As we follow him around the farm, we learn about the food chain, how to plant and harvest and prepare magnificent dishes.”
“The Farm,” it is a food show designed satisfy our hunger while making us long for more.