“From Scratch” is refreshingly honest about how hard it is to harvest plants and animals. In the Season 2 opener, host David Moscow scurries to gather a sack of acorns for a recipe, but only scrounges up a couple handfuls. In the same episode, he’s fly-fishing in shockingly freezing weather for trout, and his frustration is palpable. The show’s producers are apparently just fine with Moscow’s angst, as he said in the exclusive interview, “They like the drama of me being put into situations that cause me distress or to complain. That’s what people like to watch.” But “From Scratch” isn’t always fun and games — to be true to his mission, Moscow must reckon with hunting and killing animals himself.
In Mexico, he shoots a wild pig; in Texas, he has to (humanely) slaughter and butcher a beef cow; and in Kenya, he participates in the Maasai ritual killing of a goat, as he discusses. “I wanted to be respectful of their culture, and so we slaughtered the goat the way they did it,” he said. But Moscow admits that he can only go so far, and in Sardinia, he backed off from hunting a baby octopus, saying, “It was so cute. The biology of little animals … we don’t want to harm, we want to take care of [them].”
Wherever Moscow travels to, his compassion always shines through, and that’s what makes “From Scratch” different from other travel food shows. “We want people to watch it and learn without feeling like they’re being preached to … The people who bring our food to our table are heroes as we saw in COVID … They were putting their lives on the line for us to get fed.”
To watch David Moscow’s continuing adventures into the unknown, tune in to “From Scratch” Sundays at 10/9c on FYI.
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