Baron Ambrosia - Bronx Flavor Episodes

Bronx Flavor Episodes

Season 1
1. The Purple Coffin Air Date: 03/11/08
An introductory episode in which the Baron arrives in the Bronx after a five year mission to exotic lands and is asked to be a culinary correspondent for Bronxnet Channel 67

2. Legend of the Bullet Proof Foot Air Date: 04/04/08
Culinary Focus: The Jamacian curried cow's foot from Jamrock Cooking.
Location: Jamrock Cooking

3. Burek Mania Air Date: 04/18/08
Culinary Focus: Albanian and Kosovoan Burek
Locations: Tony & Tina's Pizza, Dukagjini Burek

4. The Platinum Paan Don Air Date: 05/02/08
Culinary Focus: The Indian aperitif created from the leaf of the betelnut creeper
Location: Dashi Bazaar

5. The Rites of Sandwich Air Date 05/16/08
Culinary Focus: A mammoth sandwich named after Baron Ambrosia

6. Fufu Inferno Air Date 06/02/08
Culinary Focus: West African cuisine in particular soup and fufu
Location: Sankofa Restaurant

7. The Giffiti That Keeps on Giving Air Date 06/13/08
Culinary Focus: Garifuna cuisine and the aphrodisiac known as giffiti
Location: Garifuna Star

8. The Ghosts of Endorsements Past Air Date 06/27/08
Culinary Focus: Thai curries
Location: Siam Square Restaurant

9. A Cheesecake Odyssey Air Date 07/11/08
Culinary Focus: Cheesecake
Location: S & S Cheesecake

Season 2
10. The Agony of Flavor Part 1: Pasteles Pandimonium Air Date 08/25/08
Culinary Focus: The Dominican/ Puerto Rican tamale known as a pastel
Location: Pasteles by Noemi
11. The Agony of Flavor Part 2: Purgatory Pate Air Date 9/05/08
Culinary Focus: the healing Haitian beef patties of Vodou Mambo Rose Carline
Location: Jamaica, Queens

12. Cuchifritos of Love: Platinum Edition Air Date 9/19/08
Culinary Focus: A re-release of the Underbelly episode of the same name with new scenes and
extended plot.
Location: 188 Cuchifritos

13. The Legend of Van Cortlandt Park Air Date 9/26/08
Culinary Focus: The carrot cake and other various bake goods of Lloyd’s Carrot Cake.
Location: Lloyd’s Carrot Cake

14.Night at the Bodega Air Date 10/10/08
Culinary Focus: The products that can be found and purchased in various Bronx bodegas
Location: The Vargas Deli
Special Guest: Grandmaster Melle Mel

15. Friend or Phở Air Date 10/24/08
Culinary Focus: Vietnamese cuisine in particular the soup known as Pho.
Location: World of Taste Seafood and Deli

16. Quantum of Chimi Air Date 11/07/08
Culinary Focus: Chimichurri Hamburger
Location: El Rincon De Los Taxistas Chimi Truck

17. The Chitlin' Rapture Air Date 11/21/08
Culinary Focus: Soul Food
Location:Berzet's Soul Food & Fillet of Soul

Seasonal
18. Bronx Flavor Christmas Spectacular Air Date 12/24/08
In this half hour black & white ode to the Christmas films of the 1950s, Baron Ambrosia
must get together $300,000 before midnight Christmas Eve to save the Bronx Orphanage from a
greedy developer who wishes to convert it into a coffee shop for yuppies.

Season 3
19. The Vodka Sauce Vendetta Air Date 3/1/09
Culinary Focus: Italian Food
Location: Ann & Tony's Restaurant

20. The Liberian, The Pepper and the Pestle Air Date 4/5/09
Culinary Focus: Palm Butter
Location: Aunty Nana's & the Water Street Market in Monrovia
Award:Best Comedy/Documentary 2009 New York Independent Film Festival

21. The Corned Beef Confidential Air Date 4/24/09
Culinary Focus: Irish Foods
Location: An Beal Bocht & Prime Cut Meats

22. A Passover Preposterous Air Date 5/31/09/
Culinary Focus: Jewish Foods
Location: Liebman's Delicatessian

23. Roti Express Air Date 7/5/09/
Culinary Focus: Guyanese & Trini Cuisine
Location: Lai's Roti & Coconut Palm

24. Joe Bataan Stole My Girlfriend Air Date 8/2/09
Culinary Focus: Southern Mexican Cuisine
Location: Xochimilco Special Guest: Joe Bataan

25. A Hunts Point Haunting Air Date 10/6/09
Culinary Focus: BBQ
Location: Mo Gridder's BBQ

26. End Game I: Saving City Island Air Date 1/1/10
Culinary Focus: Seafood
Location: Lobster House & The Black Whale
Special Guest: Chef Michael Valentino Proietti

27. End Game II: The Bling of Fire Air Date 2/7/10
Culinary Focus: Jamaican Cuisine
Location: H.I.M Ital Rasta-rant & Barry's Jerk Delight
Special Guest: Sal Abbatiello

Seasonal
28. Thankschriskwanzaakah Air Date 11/29/09
To deal with the slumping economy the government combines all the winter holidays. Awesome Mart CEO and greedy slickster Belvedere Washburton buys the holiday so he is the only one who can sell the official dish…Laturgogoosamel! After the cursed meat turns all Bronxites into zombie shoppers it is up to the Baron to save all the holidays from certain destruction.

Season 4
29. Culinary Nonesense-ness Air Date 1/4/11
While Baron Ambrosia is in maximum security prison, a national television network hires a hipster look-alike named Brian Andozza to hijack the show. The network renames the show Bronx Flava and attempts to give it an aloof mean-spirited edge. New host Brian gets more than bargains for when he visits Bate African Restaurant on Melrose Avenue and the Bronx Pop Soda Company in Little Italy.
Culinary Focus: Guinean Cuisine
Location: Bate African Restaurant & Bronx Pop Soda Company

30. Correctional Festivities Air Date 7/25/11
While Baron Ambrosia is locked up in a ‘maximum security prison for incredibly stylish super villains’ he documents the unique recipes that have evolved in prison culture. After breaking into the prison kitchen, Ambrosia and fellow inmates show how to create some notorious favorites. The menu includes jailhouse burritos, pruno, as well as a surprise dish that may hold the secret to Baron Ambrosia’s escape.
Culinary Focus: Prison Recipes