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“Buttocks divine!” This is what my great-grandmother would call a delicious dish. Honestly!

Angelos Spartalis, all alone, in a real kitchen, talks to himself while cooking real food for real people, sharing it with the universe, filming himself and his obsessions. Often, he invades the kitchens of his unsuspicious friends and makes them cook on camera. Or he visits exotic destinations in Greece and abroad supposedly to study people’s culinary habits.

The only son of a Cretan mother and an Egyptiot father, Spartalis grew up in Germany. Painter, filmer, a graduate of engineering and aeronautics, father of two daughters who boldly acknowledge him as their dad, Spartalis carries within him a chaotic gastronomic and political universe on which he is trying – in vain - to impose some sort of order.

On the pretext of cooking this show casts a furtive wayward glance at burning philosophical issues like “who are we?”, “why do we exist?”, “is there life on other planets?” and many more, usually in a sprightly batty mood. Because “optimism is the haven of intelligence and kindness”.

Episodes with English subtitles
04.  Lamb with wild greens
05.  Boubouristi / Fried snails
09.  Lenten carrot cake
10.  Tartine aux anchois marinés / Tartine with marinated anchovies
11.  Broad beans with tomato sauce
26.  Gamopilafo / Rice pilaf in meat broth (wedding pilaf)
32.  Rooster with okra
33.  Kakavia (Fish stew) and various charcoal-grilled fish
36.  Shrimps butterfly
37.  Handmade Jordan almonds

Episodes without English subtitles
01.  Lentil soup
02.  Octopus with ditalini
03.  Cod with garlic purée
06.  Snails with broken wheat
07.  Liver with sesame
08.  Pasta with mushrooms
12.  Wood-fired lamb
13.  Galaktompoureko / Semolina custard filo pastry
14.  Snails with broad beans, artichokes and young vine leaves
15.  Chicken with sage
16.  Pasta with minced meat
17.  Kokoretsi / Offal wrapped in intestines
18.  Antikristo / Goat on a spit
19.  Chickpeas lemon soup
20.  Bean soup
21.  Shrimp soup
22.  Pasticcio / Pasta, minced meat and béchamel sauce
23.  Molokhia soup
24.  Falafels
25.  Giouvetsi / Meat baked with orzo
27.  Green beans with potatoes
28.  Fish soup
29.  CAPMA / Sarma
30.  Varenika
31.  Spaghettoni alla puttanesca
34.  Roast Beef
35.  Petalides and Fanouropita
38.  Omelette
39.  Tzertzevatia
40.  Snails with green beans and potatoes
41.  Raki
42.  Cheese & Ice cream
43.  Xerotigana (fried dough strips)
44.  Spaghetti with shrimps
45.  Feuilleté aux 3 fromages
46.  Stuffed vegetables
 

Credits
Script, direction, narration, animation, montage
      Angelos Spartalis
Music
      Oblivion (Antonis Papaspiros)
Producers
      Paris Karagiorgos, Angela Svoronou, Angelos Spartalis
Production
      wish you luck Films © 2016-2017

Technical Features
Episode duration
       00:03:34:07
       00:07:08:14 (x2)
       00:08:00:00 (XL)
       00:16:00:00 (XXL)

Format
      Full HD 1080p, digital file .mov, AppleProRess 422