From Scratch - Season 2

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.

Arriving in Malta, David Moscow plans to make a meal with Chef Stefan Hogan of Corinthia Palace, focused on the international culinary mixtape that is Malta. Scrambling to find ingredients, the meal might become whatever he could harvest locally on this dry cluster of rocky islands as time is running out.

David Moscow meets with the 2019 Top Chef Croatia winner Tvrtko Sakota to create his signature dish from scratch. Driving across the country making sugar from beets, harvesting pork, and hunting rabbit, he understands how Croatia is finding its culinary feet by walking a tightrope between local customs and the modern world.

David Moscow journeys to the small 19,000 square mile country of Costa Rica to replicate an amazing Tico meal for Chef Manuel Badilla at Origins, and doing it completely from scratch. Life is rich here and that starts and ends with the rain. And boy does it rain! David's adventures include a horse ride through path turned river a rainstorm, a fishing expedition in a rainstorm, falling trees in a rainstorm and gardening in a rainstorm.

David Moscow meets with chef Marilu Madueno of La Huaca Pucclanai, one of the best restaurants in Lima. After learning the significance of how Peruvian ingredients shaped the world's food, David travels across the country to source these foundational ingredients. After heading into the Andes to check out Incan ruins, he harvests Quinoa, Corn, and Potatoes, slaughters a duck, and finally in a test of his fortitude he becomes a Mata Cuy.

David Moscow gets soaking wet hunting "from scratch" ingredients on an island north of Seattle for Chef Matt Costello at the Inn at Langley. Whether it's mushrooms in the rain, clams in the sand, or crabs in the San Juans, David learns a new appreciation for how incredible the Pacific Northwest is.

David Moscow travels the northern coast of Croatia to dive for clams, hunt for truffles and fish the Adriatic for Marina Gasi in Novigrad. He learns about how tied to the sea Croatia is, but also how the history of the country has brought international flavors into its dishes.

David Moscow works in the kitchen of Lima's Central, the brainchild of wildly talented chef and food ethnographer Virgilio Martinez and the world's 6th best restaurant according to the "World's Best 50 Restaurants." Central's menu is based on altitudes and the dish sends him hunting for each ingredient, from Lima on the coast into the Andes for potatoes and back down into the Amazon to harvest chocolate and to fish for piranha.