The Chef offers innovative ways to prepare salmon with sauces made from both red and white wine, with special attention to simplifying the process of sauce reduction. The featured dishes are Poached Salmon with Mushroom Herb Citrus Broth and Sauteed Salmon with Onion Strewn Grits and Portobello Mushroom Red Wine Sauce. In this episode of Reading Raindow, Levar Burton discovers his creativity as he works on a pottery model of his childhood home. Levar finds that in order to create a masterpiece he must follow a plan and find a peaceful place to work. On the shores of the Yucatan, Cortes first saw the Mayan pyramids.
Wood continues west to the frontier between the Mayan and Aztec worlds.
The Aztecs greeted Cortes with gifts of gold, an act that sealed their fate. Trekking over the mountains in torrential storms, Wood wonders how this small band of Spanish adventurers overthrew an empire of millions, and why the Aztec ruler Montezuma believed the Spanish were gods. In 1532, conquistador Francisco Pizarro uncovered this civilization, which extended 3,000 miles from Ecuador to Chile. Wood traces Pizarro's daring march into Peru with fewer than 200 men. Following ancient Inca desert roads, Wood climbs the Andes with a train of llamas, ascending fairy-tale peaks overlooking the Pacific coast.