Profession: Foodhunter
Out for Asia’s Culinary Treasures
Mark Brownstein has an unusual profession. He travels through
remote areas of Asia to search for old, forgotten or unknown dishes, foods
or flavours in order to sell these to creative chefs around the world.
He is a foodhunter.
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Mark is an American based in Hong Kong. He moved here in 1997 for love.
The ultra modern metropolis on the Pearl river did not offer many jobs
for the trained landscape architect. So Mark Brownstein made his passion
his profession: cooking, eating and studying food, experimenting with
tastes and flavours - and travelling. His favourite hunting ground is
Asia.
We followed him the first time in 2005/2006 for a film project for SWR
and ARTE (‘Profession: Foodhunter’). In 2007 we were again
on the road with Mark, this time for a 5-part series of documentaries
(‘The Foodhunter. Out for Asia's Culinary Treasures). We had the
pleasure of following Mark to India, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. The
films take us from remote villages, food stalls and jungle markets straight
into the hippest restaurants in the mega cities of modern Asia.
In 2009 we produced two new 43 min. episodes with Mark, ‘The Foodhunter
in China’
Link to the foodhunter's website: www.foodhuntermark.com
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