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COOK’S COUNTRY FROM AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN features the best regional home cooking from across the country. The series, like the successful Cook’s Country magazine, approaches food in the same practical, no-nonsense way. In a renovated 1806 farmhouse, the cast scientifically re-imagines family-friendly recipes for the modern home cook. In season four, test kitchen chefs Bridget Lancaster, Julia Collin Davison and Erin McMurrer deconstruct each recipe to reveal secrets for foolproof cooking at home. The Tasting Lab’s Jack Bishop once again challenges host Christopher Kimball to live tastings and resident equipment expert Adam Ried returns to reveal the test kitchen’s top recommendations for immersion blenders, multi-timers, pastry brushes, slow cookers and more. Kimball also introduces short documentary segments about America’s food history and later, shares test kitchen tips and techniques designed to make home cooking easier.

PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE brings authentic Mexican flavors, colors, textures and warmth into American kitchens. In each episode, chef, cooking teacher and food writer Pati Jinich embarks upon an exciting and entertaining culinary adventure, where each dish serves as a point of departure into Mexico’s rich history and culture. Each half-hour highlights a singular Mexican food — from familiar ingredients like vanilla, avocado and chorizo to the mysterious grains used by the Aztecs and the adventurous and trendy cuisine found across Mexico today.

Watch Wednesdays at 8am on KCPT2.

Chef John Besh’s world-class, award-winning cuisine springs from his deep roots in the rich food culture of South Louisiana. CHEF JOHN BESH’S NEW ORLEANS pays tribute and celebrates the food he loved growing up on the bayous, refined during his years of study in the United States and Europe, and brought back to his native New Orleans, where his restaurants remain indelible parts of the culinary scene. CHEF JOHN BESH’S NEW ORLEANS offers Big Easy classics along with contemporary dishes for a rich combination of cooking technique, food history and personal memories from the chef’s childhood. Each half-hour episode draws from Chef Besh’s James Beard-nominated cookbook, My New Orleans: 200 of My Favorite Recipes and Stories from My Hometown. Featured dishes include: jalapeño cheese grits, green onion shrimp gravy, fried oyster salad, crawfish etouffee, Creole matzo ball soup, blood orange crème brulee, soft-shell shrimp with sweet chili sauce, trout almandine, Bourbon pecan pie, gnocchi with crab and truffle, pan-roasted lemonfish with ginger-pea risotto, grilled watermelon, tomato and goat cheese salad, quail gumbo and a brown butter fig tarte.

Watch Thursdays at 8am on KCPT2.