Sellers samples chef Reagan Roach’s blue cheese burger at Harris Ranch, above. At left and right, she and Charles Williams film segments with Justin Wangler and Tucker Taylor at Kendall-Jackson Winery.
Kendall-Jackson photos by Lori Eanes
If someone hasn’t watched California Bountiful TV before, what can they expect? The show is unique. It’s a 30-minute travel exploration across the state. You get to see how food is grown and who grows it. You get to see the families who grow the food for you, which I always think is interesting. You get to see how it’s processed, and then you see the final steps. You get a recipe out of it, too, which I think is really fun. You go behind the scenes to places that nobody else gets to go—the restaurants, wineries, food companies, farms and ranches. There’s something for everybody. In addition to profiles on farmers and ranchers, we also highlight artisan food makers, and have regular segments with a nutrition professor who teaches us how to pick the best produce at the market and how to cook with it. Plus, we have gardening advice from a Northern California nursery and wine-tasting tips from a six- generation winemaking family, as well as recipes from world-class chefs and even a few frommy own kitchen! What is the mission of California Bountiful TV? We want to inform and entertain folks at the same time, perhaps without them really knowing it—kind of a seamless educational show. I like to have one “aha
moment” in the show where you go, “Huh? I didn’t know how olives are grown” or “Oh, that’s how a pear is grown”—something they tell their friends and family about. I think the overall mission of the show is just to show how hard people work to get food from the ground to the viewer’s table. They make it look easy, but it’s not easy. There’s a lot of work behind the scenes for years and years to get a crop to grow. What are some of your most memorable shows? We’ve traveled the state and been to Disneyland, Harris Ranch, Martinelli’s, See’s Candy and the San Francisco Giants stadium. I’ve interviewed Guy Fieri, Maria Shriver, Stephen Hearst, Alice Waters, the Mondavis and Duff Goldman of “Ace of Cakes” on the Food Network. But we’ve also profiled small farms, too—which are equally memorable—such as the first coffee grower in California and a six- generation family farm of pear growers in Courtland I recently visited. Two of my favorite stories, though, are stories with animals. I went to a camel dairy in San Diego, where I got to ride a camel. The other one was the San Diego Zoo. We talked to them
Hosted by Tracy Sellers, California Bountiful TV is a delicious, 30-minute adventure throughout the state. From world-famous Martinelli’s apple cider to California’s first coffee grower, viewers have an all-access pass as she travels, explores, celebrates—and, yes, eats— her way across the state. Never miss another episode or publication of California Bountiful. Sign up for California Bountiful newsletters and receive TV programming notes, magazine previews, recipes, Sellers’ food hacks and more. Go to newsletter.californiabountiful.com. To read the rest of Sellers’ interview, go to californiabountiful.com. 101 TV
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