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Contact: Ellard Resignato, Host & Producer - [email protected], 415-823-6749

March 8, 2016
Haleiwa, Oahu, HI 

Local Food Adventure Show Kicks off Epic Around the World Second Season on Oahu

​The local food/travel adventure series The Culinary Edge TV will be kicking off its second season on Oahu - and then a trip around the island for some unique culinary delights. 

The show is hosted by Chef Ellard Resignato, a former cubicle worker turned food adventurer. Three years ago Ellard found himself stagnant in his job, “I quit my job and found myself on a flight to Bali and on the cover of the in-flight magazine was a picture of Anthony Bourdain. I thought to myself, ‘I want his job’ so I started my own cooking show. It started out as a spotlight on the amazing cooking adventures that I’ve experienced with my friends and family. And its grown from there.” 

Season 1 features location on the Big Island, San Francisco, Alaska, and Florida among others; and features back yard food excursions. “One of the best ways to understand other cultures is through their food,” said Ellard. “Our intention is to spotlight the interesting cooking that people are doing in un-discovered settings.“ I also like featuring people who grow and harvest their own food” 

For season two, Ellard is bringing Bailey Ferguson - a former Miss Nebraska turned artist - to co-host and help produce this ultimate journey. 

The Culinary Edge TV itinerary includes: Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka, India, Eastern Europe, Italy and will conclude back in Hawaii. 
Some of the highlights planned so far: shark dive on Oahu and malasadas at Leonard’s, the oldest fish market (Tsukiji) and a ramen tour in Tokyo, mandarin orange harvesting on Nakajima Island Japan, street food in Southeast Asia, floating market in Kep; Cambodia; cooking class in Kerala, India; surfing and fishing in Sri Lanka; dropping in on Ellard’s Italian relatives in a small village outside of Torino, Italy and many more improvised food and travel adventures. 

“If you are interested in unique and undiscovered food happenings from around the globe and some good stories you should tune in. It's going to be a wild ride.” said Ellard. 

The Culinary Edge  TV is on YouTube as well as NĀ LEO`O HAWAIʻI BIG ISLAND COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION CHANNEL 54 AND CHANNEL 29 IN SAN FRANCISCO.  

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Ah man. We wanted to make an entire episode about these East Coast guys who came to Oakland to make bagels. Unfortunately, I had the volume turned up to high on our camera so all of the audio was overdriven. I could have salvaged it but I just didn't have time so I took this little clip of one of the brothers telling ridiculous bagel jokes. I like it. These guys at Authentic Bagels are really cool and the hot bagels out of the oven were amazing!!!!

This is one of the most popular episodes of the Culinary Edge and it is all due to my Dad. Sometimes you are never sure how people are going to respond when you turn the camera on, especially family members. My Dad is kind of a natural. He is from Brooklyn. Kind of a gregarious Italian guy but I just love the side that came out of him during the episode. And this recipe is a very important part of my growing up. 

When I was growing on the Barnegat Bay in New Jersey we would catch the blue claws ourselves. Big ones. There's pictures of me somewhere with my face full of tomato sauce as I was sucking the juices out of those crabs. There's something about eating crabs for me that really brings you closer to the people you are sharing the meal with. 

At one point during filming my Dad just started singing Lazy Mary. I didn't tell him to sing and I never heard the song Lou Monte made famous back in the fifties, he just started singing. So I turned the camera on. It's one of my favorite parts of the episode. And everyone needs more cowbell!

This is why I started a cooking show! Because I knew I would end up on adventures like this meeting characters and Captain Kenny Llanes is a character in every sense of the word. Smart, good natured, great musician, great fisherman. 

We ended up in Kona and I called a local Captain I knew to see if he knew anybody who wanted to do a show. He said he knew someone. I called the guy and he said, "You want my Uncle, for sure." They knew Captain Kenny would do well on camera. He ended up taking us out, just myself and my girlfriend at the time, for just the gas money. An all day eight hour charter. He told stories about Vietnam, movie stars he'd taken fishing, and his prowess at karaoke. And of course we caught fish. 

We caught a marlin as you can see but when I reeled in that Indian short nose spearfish both Kenny and his mate were salivating. The spearfish is an amazing tasting fish. And to cook it over keave really brings out the flavor. This was an epic adventure that I'll never forget. 

This was such a fun episode to make because it features a lot of my favorite people Octavian, Todd (my bff), Nate, Ben, and YM. We made this on the last day you could drive on Devil's Slide at a place called Grey Whale Cove Beach just south of Pacifica, CA. It was a bear of an episode bc I was pretty tired when we got back to my apartment to cook the mussels. Plus I have a 3 story walk up so we had to schlep all the stuff down to my tint backyard. The food came out great.

​The shark story is true and I still believe it was a baby great white that swam under Nate's board. I'm not talking about a dogfish, I'm talking about a great white!