BENOIT, MS – TV celebrity chef Sara Moulton recently launched the 13th season of her PBS television show,
Sara’s Weeknight Meals, and included in the line-up of episodes is a
segment featuring past USA Rice Chair Kirk Satterfield cooking up Mississippi rice and blackened catfish.
Moulton’s New York-based production team joined up with a camera crew out of Starkville, Mississippi, to take over Kirk’s family kitchen for the episode called “Mississippi Dreams.” Kirk, and his wife, Bridget, show Moulton how to make a savory meal of veggie-rich Delta & Pine Land Rice and catfish coated with a spicy rub and fried on a flat grill. And after a big time feast with extended family, Sara joins Kirk for her first ever ride on a combine.
This is the fourth episode in a series where Moulton cooks U.S.-grown rice alongside U.S. rice farmers. She first went crawfishing with Louisiana rice farmer Randy Thibodeaux in Season 5 and hosted an outdoor dinner party for 30 at his farm where they served up étouffée the two made on the air. In Season 7, she traveled to Stuttgart, Arkansas, to learn about the relationship between ducks and rice from rice farmer Eric Vaught, and cook rice hush puppies with Eric and his family. And in Season 11, Moulton visited rice farmer Matthew Sligar in Gridley, California, where they cooked rice buns for hamburgers and made sushi with the incomparable chef and restauranteur Billy Ngo.
“Sara is so accomplished and so knowledgeable, she manages to make cooking accessible for everyone,” said Cameron Jacobs, USA Rice vice president of domestic promotion, who has joined Moulton on all her rice country trips. “She has a genuine interest in where the food she cooks comes from, and we can count on her to share with her viewers the unique qualities of U.S.-grown rice.”
Check local listings for air times in your area and read about the episode on Sara’s website at
www.saramoulton.com. And if you’re attending the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Little Rock starting this weekend, come to a Watch Party of the episode Tuesday, December 10, on The Rice Foundation Stage. Bring your favorite snacks!