Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
A departure from our usual programming!
In the mid 1990’s, after finishing his feature film 'The Atrocity Exhibition', Jonathan turned to a new challenge: how to change American food culture. At the time, TV food programming was just studio 'dump and stir 'shows, game shows, and nothing was shot reality style or out of the studio. Jonathan had traveled for several years through Europe and Asia, always gravitating to food, markets, and often ending up in local people’s homes, united by a common love of food. That love was entirely missing from TV programming.
So when the first small consumer 3-chip digital video cameras came to market, Jonathan bought them and took a small crew to Jamaica to document real food with real people, years before Anthony Bourdain or even Reality TV. This pilot episode, made originally for the TV Food Network (and instantly rejected) was Jonathan’s attempt to improve our collective food culture, to show what life was like around food in places not changed much or at all by industrialization and commercialization, to give a feel of the beauty of nourishment in all the aspects of food.
As The Global Kitchen never became a reality, Jonathan turned to his passion for sound and vintage audio, and created Oswalds Mill Audio, OMA.
We just had the master tape digitized after spending more than 30 years on a shelf in Jonathan’s closet. Please forgive the less than stellar image and sound quality, it’s the content that counts.
A departure from our usual programming!
In the mid 1990’s, after finishing his feature film 'The Atrocity Exhibition', Jonathan turned to a new challenge: how to change American food culture. At the time, TV food programming was just studio 'dump and stir 'shows, game shows, and nothing was shot reality style or out of the studio. Jonathan had traveled for several years through Europe and Asia, always gravitating to food, markets, and often ending up in local people’s homes, united by a common love of food. That love was entirely missing from TV programming.
So when the first small consumer 3-chip digital video cameras came to market, Jonathan bought them and took a small crew to Jamaica to document real food with real people, years before Anthony Bourdain or even Reality TV. This pilot episode, made originally for the TV Food Network (and instantly rejected) was Jonathan’s attempt to improve our collective food culture, to show what life was like around food in places not changed much or at all by industrialization and commercialization, to give a feel of the beauty of nourishment in all the aspects of food.
As The Global Kitchen never became a reality, Jonathan turned to his passion for sound and vintage audio, and created Oswalds Mill Audio, OMA.
We just had the master tape digitized after spending more than 30 years on a shelf in Jonathan’s closet. Please forgive the less than stellar image and sound quality, it’s the content that counts.
