THE COOKBOOK

WGA registered: 2065225 VISION To create a renaissance for cookbooks, ensuring this centuries-old art form lives on through the digital age.

WGA registered: 2065225 CONCEPT A docu-series hosted by food writer Kirk Leins, as he opens renowned cookbooks and brings the people, their stories and their food to life.

WGA registered: 2065225 SAMPLE EPISODE It takes a village

SHERRY VILLANUEVA JASON PALUSKA MACDUFF EVERTON

Co-author, Entrepreneur, Co-author and Executive Chef Photographer, Photo Restaurateur and Activist Anthropologist and Historian

Former marketing executive Born in Tomball, Texas, Jason Macduff’s images are featured in turned restaurateur, Sherry moved west to study cooking some of the world’s foremost started by opening 3 restaurants in San Francisco. He quickly museums, as well as numerous simultaneously and now has 7 to rose through the ranks of private collections and her name. She is also on the some of the city’s most publications. Prior to Around the advisory board for African renowned restaurants before Table, he had shot food as a Women Rising, a non-profit that being charged with running photojournalist. His involvement Around the Table is more than a cookbook. It is a story benefits female empowerment Sherry’s flagship restaurant, has helped elevate the cookbook to about Santa Barbara and how a community comes together in Africa. The Lark, in Santa Barbara. become both an artistic statement to revitalize a part of the city that fell into disrepair. and an anthropology on food.

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Kirk explains the impetus Meet Robert Dautch, one of Meet Bernard Friedman, a behind the show and his several organic farmers featured Santa Barbara mussel farmer, appreciation of cookbooks. in Around The Table. and another featured purveyor.

Click to view Click to view Click to view The Cookbook pilot brings the recipes of Around the Table to life by exploring beyond The Lark and Executive Chef Jason Paluska. The show interviews several of the restaurant's purveyors and uncovers how a community helpd it not only to succeed, but to change the cultural landscape, too.

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The trailblazer Feed the world ALICE WATERS is an iconic chef with a litany of JOSE ANDRES is a Spanish-American chef, high-profile protégés. She championed the TV personality, activist and philanthropist farms-to-table menu starting in the 1970s. Her with 25+ restaurants and multiple Michelin Chez Panisse cookbook honors the restaurant, stars to his name. Often credited with which garnered her a Michelin star. bringing the "small plates" concept to the U.S., his Vegetables Unleashed cookbook is dedicated to celebrating the versatility and benefits of vegetables.

You gotta have soul More than a face MARCUS SAMUELSSON is an Ethiopian-born GIADA DE LAURENTIS is a culinary chef, food activist and TV personality. At 24, he juggernaut. The face of the Food Network, became the youngest chef to receive a 3-star she is a classically trained chef and review from the Times. With a James restaurateur, and multiple cookbook author Beard award and a dozen restaurants with a new book due out in 2021. She is a throughout the world, his Red Rooster Cookbook brand unto herself with a story that goes far focuses on the food of Harlem. beyond what we’ve seen on TV.

WGA registered: 2065225 HOST

Host Kirk Leins comes equipped with a unique skillset. A former chef, he is also a seasoned and accomplished writer with multiple Daytime Emmys to his name.

Kirk has authored countless articles on all things food related and is the host of Community Cooking and Taste of Torrance, each airing across southern .

WGA registered: 2065225 TRENDS

54% of people surveyed said they HEADLINE 04-2020: "Food, Home Cookbook category sales rose cook more than before the Focus Give Discovery a Ratings by 21%, year over year since 2018 pandemic. 75% say they've and Revenue Edge During become more confident in the Pandemic" kitchen. 51% say they will continue cooking after the crisis ends.

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Kirk Leins Alex Martinez Sundee Manusakis

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