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Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil

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  • 2004
  • 6m
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Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, and Salma Hayek in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
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    7rbverhoef

    Rodriguez knows how to cook

    After director Robert Rodriguez learns us how to make a movie with digital video all by yourself in 'Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control' and 'Inside Troublemaker Studios' he shows us how to cook "puerco pibil" in 'Ten Minute Cooking School'. He cooks the dish Johnny Depp's character likes so much in 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico'.

    Rodriguez himself holds the camera while he is explaining how to cook the dish. From time to time he lays down the camera because he needs his hands for cooking. He makes sure that even these simple shots look pretty good. All together this is another nice extra from Rodriguez, showing us how cool he is and giving us a nice dish that seems pretty hard to make.
    keyframer

    Puerco Pibil - The recipe

    This dish ROCKS! Takes a long time to prepare but it is well worth it.

    The Recipe-

    Puerco Pibil(Slow Roasted Pork)

    Preheat oven to 325 degrees

    What you need-

    White or Spanish Rice

    5 LBS Pork Butt

    (Achiota Paste)

    5 TBSP Annatto Seeds

    2 TSP Cumin Seeds

    1 TBSP Pepper Corns

    8 Whole All Spice

    ½ TSP Cloves (Sticks)

    Couple of Habanero Peppers (No seeds or veins) (Sub Jalapenos if desired.)

    ½ Cup Orange Juice

    ½ Cup White Vinegar

    2 TBSP Salt

    5 Lemons

    8 Cloves of Garlic

    the finest Tequila you can find

    How to do it-

    Use a coffee grinder to grind Achiota Paste to a fine powder. Liquefy Achiota Paste and all other ingredients in a blender. Add a splash of the finest Tequila you can find.

    Cut Pork Butt into 2' squaresm place meat in a large ziplock bag and pour in Achiota Paste.

    Line a large baking pan with the banana leaves, add meat to pan, cover with more banana leaves, then seal the pan with tin foil.

    Bake at 325 degrees for 4 hours.

    Serve over a bed of white or Spanish rice.

    Enjoy!!!
    BorderlineBadaBing

    Hey this is really delicious

    This one I saw like an extra goodie in Once upon a time in Mexico... Well Johnny Depp loved this recipe and killed for it, and it´s really interesting to see how it´s done. In Godfellas and Godfather we saw mobsters cooking and well at least we see an director cooking, fun and fast worth watching. Robert Rodriguez is one of the best cool director´s and Once upon a time in Mexico is full of cool bonus like this one. Actually you can understand the motivations on Johnny Depp´s character after tasting this pork. Watch it, cook it, enjoy it
    9colinsmith

    Future cult dish is cerebral nirvana akin to that obtained from "Close Encounters of the Intimate Kind"

    Robert Rodriguez's comment that not being able to cook is as bad as not being able to f*** is actually a crudely put truism based on the physiological and psychological pleasures enjoyed from participation in the respective recreational activities. It takes someone with at least a modicum of talent in the kitchen to be able to appreciate the sensual pleasures of the consumption of carefully prepared food (and good wine) to further appreciate the same kind of emotion generated by the intimacies of the world's oldest sporting activity! The emotions involved in both should be able to render a grown man close to tears. Sound weird? Then you aren't the kind of person that can truly appreciate the wonderful enlightenment that participation in either brings. I have cooked dishes at home that have reduced me to tears when I have sat down to eat them, and have tasted wines that have had the same effect. As regarding the fairer sex? I can only say that emotion is viewed as a strength by women, not as a weakness.

    The overriding danger of having such a "cool" focus in a film like "Puerco Pibil" is that the young, uninitiated wannabes will latch on to it and denigrate the real meaning by cooking it for themselves and serving it up at their lame "Hey, I can pretend I'm really cool!" parties to try and impress their friends (for friends actually read "Hangers-on"). If you're as cool as you think you are you will cook the dish (several times) and just revel in the all-consuming emotion that is generated by the taste explosion in your mouth. You may then just want to share that feeling (as does Johnny Depp's character) with someone close.

    Cool is not letting people know you think something is cool. "Puerco Pibil" is destined to become a cult dish: that can not be in doubt. But it is because it has been mentioned in a film, not because it is the most marvellous food on this planet. (Don't even go there McCorporate Death Burger!) Don't reduce Robert Rodriguez's recipe to a mere social point-scoring exercise.

    Be Cool. Stay Cool.
    7TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews

    Rob does for the newbies in the kitchen what he's done for the newbies in the industry

    While I haven't, myself, tried this dish(never been much for Mexican food), it certainly sounds rather tasty, and judging from other comments as well as the boards here on the site, it is. Rodriguez, with his usual energy, takes us through a recipe that sounds very interesting and goes into the right amount of detail about each step. In about half the amount of time the title puts the short's running time at, he teaches us how to cook this food, and even takes some time to give a few general tips on cooking. With a mix of hand-held and static camera, this is a little different as far as cinematography goes than the two previous Ten Minute "schools", but Rodriguez, who comes across as someone who was just about *born* with the camera in his hand, pulls it off perfectly, with nary a wrong shot or angle. The editing is crisp and smooth as always when Robert is in charge of it, and there is not a single boring moment found throughout. For anyone not terribly familiar with Rodriguez, know that he does occasionally swear, and does so a little in this, as well. On that same note, if such words offend you, you'd probably prefer not to look at the Memorable Quotes for this short. I recommend this to any fan of Rodriguez, and anyone looking for cooking tips and/or a recipe on the Mexican food that's part of the title of this. 7/10

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      This short featurette is featured on the DVD for Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), released in 2004.
    • Quotes

      Robert Rodriguez: I've got a lot of friends who don't know how to cook, which I could never understand because not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck.

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      References Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

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      • January 20, 2004 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
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      • Troublemaker Studios
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