Grab a seat at the new Chef’s Table! The Netflix show which makes food look like a work of art is back with a new spin-off, Chef’s Table: BBQ. With four new culinary geniuses and their stories of success, the series has already become a favorite among food lovers all over the world. One of these chefs is Rosalia Chay Chuc, from Yaxunah, Mexico. She's famous for her fiery barbecue skills. What this exemplary Mayan chef does best is BBQ a dish that no one else in the world can replicate. This Chef’s Table: BBQ star proves that barbecuing is more than just food, thanks to her Cochinita Pibil recipe from the year 400 AD.

Netflix’s Emmy-nominated series Chef’s Table allows viewers to travel all over the world, sampling various cuisines while being seated comfortably at home. The show is from creator David Gelb and it is just perfect as a binge-watching treat for foodies. They can savor the series during the lockdown. Since its premiere in 2015, Chef’s Table has introduced viewers to chefs, both celebrity and local, who make people rethink the way they look at food. With its Chef’s Table: BBQ version, this sensory experience of a show shines the spotlight on barbecue masters from the USA, Australia, and Mexico. Chef Rosalia Clay Chuc from Mexico sets herself apart from the rest by opening the doors her heart (and the doors of her humble home) to people who want to relish the history and magic of Mayan culture. Proudly dressed in traditional Mayan costumes, the pioneer chef weaves the myriad flavors of the Mayan community into a tantalizing tale that might make one hop on the first flight to Yaxunah. However, what has made Rosalia so famous amongst curious culinary connoisseurs of the world is her pit barbecue specialty, Cochinita Pibil!

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If we don’t rescue the Mayan tradition, everything we believe in will be lost,” says Rosalia at the beginning of her Chef’s Table: BBQ chapter. Author and chef Ricardo Munoz (of Azul restaurants) shares the story of Rosalia with the audience. Rosalia hails from the small town Yaxunah, which found in the central part of the Yucatan Peninsula, where indigenous Mayans still cook as their ancestors did 1000 years ago. Using a “pib”(an underground oven), Rosalia prepares one of the oldest versions of barbecue. Rosalia makes her Cochinita Pibil using a 1000-year-old recipe. The dish, which is special due to the smokiness it acquires from the way it is cooked underground, takes its name from “cochinita” (this means a baby suckling pig) and “pibil”, a Mayan word for "cooked underground".

The featured dish from the reality TV cooking show is made “in a religious, ancient” way, especially during celebrations where everybody dresses how they used to years ago. The women of the family prepare the meat, and the men prepare the pib by putting stones and big pieces of wood that are fired until they get really hot. This way of cooking was invented in 400 AD, as per Ricardo. Rosalia uses fresh achiote seeds (a Mexican spice and coloring agent) orange juice (and other ingredients that she doesn’t even measure) to make her marinade blend for the pork. The pork comes from a species of wild boar that is “at least a thousand years old.” The marinated pork is wrapped in banana leaves before it goes into a metal pot. The pot is then placed into the pit symbolizing that “you’re giving back to the earth what you took from it,” and left to cook overnight, as demonstrated on Chef’s Table: BBQ. The meat becomes super juicy and tender and is then served in corn tortillas that Rosalia learned how to make when she was seven.

In Mexico, there are more than 2000 different types of tacos, but there is one that stands alone, and that is cochinita pibil,” says chef Ricardo on Chef’s Table: BBQ. Rosalia has been recognized by the world’s top chefs the world's top reality TV chefs, including David Chang and René Redzepi. She’s been featured on Netflix once before, on Chang’s Ugly Delicious, and has worked closely with Redzepi at his restaurant Noma Mexico. Rosalia now hosts tourists and food lovers from the world at her home, and more guests will surely arrive as her Chef’s Table: BBQ fame grows.

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All episodes of Chef's Table: BBQ are available to stream on Netflix.