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  • Eat Up Thailand Launches January 1 — Where Authentic Thai Cooking Meets Everyday Ease

    Eat Up Thailand Launches January 1 — Where Authentic Thai Cooking Meets Everyday Ease

    On January 1, Tasted.TV kicks off the new year with a series that feels both transportive and refreshingly doable. Eat Up Thailand, hosted by chef, author, and wellness advocate Daniel Green, invites viewers to experience Thai cuisine not as something intimidating or out of reach, but as food that can be cooked, shared, and enjoyed at home — without losing its soul.

    Across 10 beautifully shot episodes, Eat Up Thailand delivers three recipes per episode, each grounded in authentic Thai flavors yet designed for real kitchens, real schedules, and real cooks. It’s a show built on a simple but powerful idea: great food doesn’t need to be complicated to be extraordinary.

    Authentic, But Approachable

    Thai food is often admired from a distance — bold, fragrant, complex, and sometimes assumed to be difficult. Eat Up Thailand quietly dismantles that myth. Daniel Green’s approach is rooted in respect for tradition, but shaped by years of teaching people how to cook better, healthier meals without stress.

    Throughout the series, he shares smart shortcuts, ingredient swaps, and time-saving techniques that don’t compromise flavor. From clever prep hacks to pantry substitutions that still honor the dish, the focus is always on making Thai cooking accessible — whether you’re an experienced home cook or someone just starting to explore the cuisine.

    The recipes are authentic, but the tone is welcoming. This isn’t about perfection. It’s about confidence, curiosity, and cooking with joy.

    From Bangkok to Your Kitchen

    Filmed on location in Bangkok and in Daniel Green’s own kitchen, the series moves effortlessly between the energy of Thailand’s capital and the calm, practical environment of home cooking. Street markets, riverside tables, green spaces, temples, and everyday city scenes provide a vivid backdrop, grounding each dish in a sense of place.

    Bangkok isn’t just a setting — it’s part of the story. The city’s rhythms, flavors, and contrasts inform the food on screen, reminding viewers that cuisine is inseparable from culture. You don’t just see the dishes being cooked; you feel where they come from.

    Back in Daniel’s kitchen, those inspirations are translated into meals that can be recreated anywhere in the world. The message is clear: you don’t need to travel far to cook well — but when food carries a sense of place, it transforms the experience.

    A Cookbook Brought to Life

    Eat Up Thailand is based on Daniel Green’s new cookbook Take Home Thailand. The series expands on that foundation, bringing the pages to life with visual storytelling, step-by-step guidance, and behind-the-scenes insight.

    Across the season, viewers explore a wide range of Thai cooking — from iconic Bangkok classics and lighter, health-forward dishes to regional flavors, street snacks, seafood, vegetarian plates, and desserts. Each episode is tightly focused, but collectively they form a complete journey through Thailand’s culinary landscape.

    10 Episodes. 30 Recipes. Endless Inspiration.

    The structure of the series is intentionally clear and satisfying: 10 episodes, 3 recipes per episode. It’s binge-friendly, but also easy to dip into — perfect for weeknight cooking inspiration or weekend experimentation.

    Whether it’s bold curries, fresh salads, comforting noodles, vibrant seafood, or Thai sweets, the recipes are designed to slot naturally into everyday life. These are dishes you’ll come back to — not once, but again and again.

    And because Eat Up Thailand lives on Tasted.TV, viewers can stream the entire series free, without commercials, making it effortless to cook along or revisit favorite episodes.

    More Than a Cooking Show

    At its heart, Eat Up Thailand is about more than food. It’s about connection — to culture, to travel, to the pleasure of cooking something delicious for yourself or the people you love.

    Daniel Green’s calm, confident presence anchors the series. He doesn’t perform; he guides. His experience as a chef and author is evident, but so is his belief that food should feel good — physically, emotionally, and socially.

    The result is a series that feels generous. It doesn’t overwhelm. It invites.

    Start the Year by Eating Well

    Launching on January 1, Eat Up Thailand arrives at exactly the right moment — when many people are thinking about how they want to eat, live, and feel in the year ahead. This isn’t about restriction or rules. It’s about flavor, balance, and enjoyment.

    Authentic recipes. Approachable techniques. Unforgettable culinary and travel experiences.

    Eat Up Thailand  on Tasted.TV — where the world meets for food.

    Special thanks to Chris Emeott for his photography.

  • Why Deeper, Authentic Storytelling Is the Key to Reviving the Wine Industry

    Why Deeper, Authentic Storytelling Is the Key to Reviving the Wine Industry

    Wine sales are slipping. Over the past few years, fewer bottles are being uncorked, especially among younger drinkers. Health-conscious habits, a surge in alternative beverages, and changing social trends all play a role. But let’s get to the real question—what’s going to save wine?

    It’s not another ad campaign or a discount on case sales. The answer lies in storytelling—specifically, through film, TV, and digital content that makes wine feel like part of a lifestyle worth craving.

    The Problem: Wine’s Not Selling an Experience

    For decades, wine was marketed in a stiff, old-school way—vineyard beauty shots, swirling glasses, and technical jargon about tannins. That doesn’t cut it anymore. Today’s consumers don’t just want a drink; they want a feeling—an experience they can picture themselves in.

    Think about how luxury brands align with lifestyle. Cadillac sponsors golf tournaments—not because cars and golf clubs are a natural pairing, but because golf is a part of the lifestyle of many Cadillac drivers. Wine needs to take the same approach.

    The Solution: TV & Film That Show Wine as a Lifestyle

    Wine needs its own Anthony Bourdain moment—TV shows that don’t just show the grapes, vineyards and bottles, but that also dive into the hearts and minds of the winemakers, the eccentric founders, the multi-generational families who pour their souls into every bottle.

    Imagine this:

    • A winemaker who turned a crumbling barn into a high-end tasting room, packed with antique chandeliers and rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia.
    • A winemaking family restoring a fire-ravaged mountainside, carefully cataloging the regrowth—only to discover a previously unknown plant species.
    • A winemaker and son, also a winemaker, learn to fly a helicopter to get to their vineyard avoiding insane modern traffic. 

    This is what resonates with today’s audience. They don’t want a list of tasting notes; they want to feel like they’ve stepped into someone’s world—the kind of world they want to be a part of.

    Wine Needs to Fit Into People’s Lives

    Think about how wine could show up in shows about travel, food, adventure, even fashion. Picture an episode where a famous chef pairs rustic home-cooked meals with a bottle from a little-known vineyard. Or a show where a sommelier takes us on a road trip, stopping at under-the-radar wineries with quirky tasting rooms.

    People want to feel like wine belongs in their world. And the more they see it woven naturally into storytelling that speaks to them, the more likely they are to reach for that bottle when they want to live that moment for themselves.

    The Takeaway: Now’s the Time to Invest in Storytelling

    Businesses panic when sales dip and often slash marketing budgets first. But that’s the worst time to go quiet. Instead, this is the time to double down on telling your story in a way that actually connects.

    The brands that get creative now—whether through collaborations with filmmakers, travel and food influencers, or immersive social media storytelling—are the ones that will capture the next generation of wine lovers.

    People still want wine. They just want it to fit into a story they see themselves in. The brands and regions that embrace this shift? They’ll be the ones pouring well into the future.