--- title: Could Ontarian Cuisine Make It on Netflix Shows About Cooking? description: These Netflix shows feature cuisines from outside North America, but Ontario still has many delicious foods to offer foodies and chefs. image: https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/florian-metzner-1121738-unsplash-2.jpg --- [Skip to main content](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/could-ontarian-cuisine-make-it-on-netflix-shows-about-cooking#main) - FAQs - [News](https://ontarioeast.ca/news) - [Events](https://ontarioeast.ca/events) - [Ontario East Municipal Conference](https://ontarioeast.ca/happenings/our-team-partners) - [About Us](https://ontarioeast.ca/about-us/) - Search [![site_main_logo](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/site_main_logo.svg) ![site_main_logo_scrolled](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/site_main_logo_scrolled.svg) ![Ontario East Economic Development logo](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/logo.png?width=245&height=150&name=logo.png) ![Ontario East Economic Development logo](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/logo.png?width=245&height=150&name=logo.png)](https://ontarioeast.ca/) - [Show submenu for Regional Profile Regional Profile](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/) - [Our Communities](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/our-communities/) - [Advantages](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/advantages/) - [Workforce](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/workforce/) - [Incentives and Funding](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/incentives-and-funding/) - [Success Stories](https://ontarioeast.ca/success-stories/) - [Available Properties](https://ontarioeast.ca/available-properties/) - [Show submenu for Key Employment Sectors Key Employment Sectors](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/) - [Advanced Manufacturing](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/advanced-manufacturing/) - [Food and Beverage](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/food-and-beverage/) - [Logistics and Transportation](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/logistics-and-transportation/) - [Other](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/other/) - [Show submenu for Members Members](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/) - [Member Directory](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/) - [Become a Member](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/become-a-member/) - [Membership Application Form](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/membership-application-form/) - [Regional Marketing Committee](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/regional-marketing-committee/) - [Jobs & RFPs](https://ontarioeast.ca/jobs-rfps/) Open main navigation Menu Close main navigation Menu - Search - Show submenu for Regional Profile Regional Profile - Regional Profile - [Regional Profile](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/) - [Our Communities](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/our-communities/) - [Advantages](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/advantages/) - [Workforce](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/workforce/) - [Incentives and Funding](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/incentives-and-funding/) - [Success Stories](https://ontarioeast.ca/success-stories/) - [Available Properties](https://ontarioeast.ca/available-properties/) - Show submenu for Key Employment Sectors Key Employment Sectors - Key Employment Sectors - [Key Employment Sectors](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/) - [Advanced Manufacturing](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/advanced-manufacturing/) - [Food and Beverage](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/food-and-beverage/) - [Logistics and Transportation](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/logistics-and-transportation/) - [Other](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/other/) - [FAQs](https://ontarioeast.ca/faqs/) - [News](https://ontarioeast.ca/news/) - [Events](https://ontarioeast.ca/events/) - Show submenu for Members Members - Members - [Members](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/) - [Member Directory](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/) - [Become a Member](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/become-a-member/) - [Membership Application Form](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/membership-application-form/) - [Regional Marketing Committee](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/regional-marketing-committee/) - [Jobs & RFPs](https://ontarioeast.ca/jobs-rfps/) - [Ontario East Municipal Conference](https://oemc.ca/) - [Contact Us](https://ontarioeast.ca/contact-us/) - [Contact Us](https://ontarioeast.ca/contact-us/) [Contact Us](https://ontarioeast.ca/contact-us/) Search ![Canada, Employment Ontario, Government of Ontario logos](https://ontarioeast.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ontario-employment-logos.svg) This Employment Ontario project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. # Could Ontarian Cuisine Make It on Netflix Shows About Cooking? For Ontario East May 29, 2019 ![](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/florian-metzner-1121738-unsplash-2.jpg?width=565&name=florian-metzner-1121738-unsplash-2.jpg) The second episode of the Netflix docuseries *Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat* is all about salt. The show’s host, Samin Nosrat, visits Japan to document the uses of salt and salty tastes in Japanese cooking to make exceptional food. She explores the process of making **traditional soy sauce**, gathering sea salt from strands of seaweed, (*moshio)* and making miso soup from scratch. [Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKbs4jAf7M) gets to the heart of the manufacturing processes that are so important to the food industry and why those processes should be important to everyone who enjoys eating quality food. It puts succinctly what most food manufactures have always believed. Look at soy sauce: once an ancient Chinese sauce that spread across eastern Asia, it is now an immensely popular condiment worldwide. It’s amazing in *Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat* to see Japanese soy manufacturers making the famous sauce in their traditional wooden barrels (some over a hundred years old) and producing a product that evokes pride, quality, culture, and exquisite taste all in one spoonful. Now, you may be lamenting the fact that [eastern Ontario](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/whats-life-actually-like-in-eastern-ontario) does not have a booming traditional soy sauce industry, nor does it have many of the exotic ingredients you can see being made throughout *Salt*, *Fat, Acid, Heat* or other Netflix shows. But we do have our own [food traditions](https://www.ontarioeast.ca/target-sectors/food-processing) that are popular and revered, and one in particular that is celebrated globally: **maple syrup.** ## Ontario Has The Same Quality Food as Regions Featured on Netflix Shows ![null](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/IzqrUdJUIS_U2P2Vg76M4JKM3cAiFwKkx5eXKIWwjlCDq65nleOMFmuswomtO5mUVKFiiQnkGG0JrUEoLHELxzCeTjXb53EEKR6i5mZVKoGOqsy0sgS9Y_CrBzGBwhFZMjF-xtvw)  It’s hard to understand why grocery stores in Ontario even bother to carry American corn syrups. Once you’ve had real maple syrup, the other stuff hardly compares. Like soy sauce, maple syrup has an ancient past. Indigenous peoples used maple sap in cooking long before European settlers adopted the process. It’s a distinctly Canadian cuisine that’s worth its weight in gold. For example, during [the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist](https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/quebec/articles/the-unusual-story-behind-the-great-canadian-maple-syrup-heist/), thieves stole $18.7 million dollars worth of maple syrup. Visit any eastern Ontario sugar bush and you’ll understand why this maple gold is so sought after. Talk to the [people who make maple syrup](https://www.ontarioeast.ca/success-stories/gibbons-family-farm-maple-sugar-house) and **you’ll see the same lifelong passion** that the Japanese soy sauce makers have for their product. Manufacturing quality food products is a contagious passion, and it’s not a foreign concept to Ontarians; it’s shared across the Ontario food manufacturing industry. Some products may not have the international reputation of the maple syrup producers, but many share the same lifelong dedication to craft and perfection. Eastern Ontario has so much to offer anyone interested in being a part of a powerful tradition as old as the first people to live here. Living and [working in eastern Ontario](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/5-reasons-why-youll-want-to-work-in-eastern-ontario) can be a rich experience that contributes not only to the economy, but to the entire culture of this beautiful land. ## Settle in Eastern Ontario and Find Food to Make Your Mouth Water  [![New call-to-action](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/4499088/92c12136-ea49-4a5e-9342-a7bec3227eb0.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/4499088/92c12136-ea49-4a5e-9342-a7bec3227eb0) *External links are provided as informational resources only and are not necessarily endorsed by Ontario East.* **References:** [https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/quebec/articles/the-unusual-story-behind-the-great-canadian-maple-syrup-heist/](https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/quebec/articles/the-unusual-story-behind-the-great-canadian-maple-syrup-heist/) https://www.oishisojapan.com/home/2017/5/26/hamamori-no-moshio-seaweed-salt ![Ontario East](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/Ontario%20Website%202021/Mask%20Group%20(11).png) ## Ontario East [For job seekers](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/tag/for-job-seekers) - [![linkedin-1](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/linkedin-1.svg) Post](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ontarioeast/) - [![square-x-twitter](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/square-x-twitter.svg) Post](https://x.com/OntarioEast) - [![facebook](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/facebook.svg) Share](https://www.facebook.com/Ontario.East/) - [![envelope-solid](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hubfs/envelope-solid.svg) Email](mailto:info@ontarioeast.ca) ## You Might Also Be Interested In ### [![](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/blog%20post%2012-1-1.png?height=485&name=blog%20post%2012-1-1.png) September 16, 2019 Manufacturing Supply Chains Make Eastern Ontario Great Read Now For job seekers](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/manufacturing-supply-chains-make-eastern-ontario-great) ### [![](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/nadya-spetnitskaya-544606-unsplash-2.jpg?height=485&name=nadya-spetnitskaya-544606-unsplash-2.jpg) May 24, 2019 The Connection Between Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and Ontario Manufacturing Read Now For job seekers](https://blog.ontarioeast.ca/the-connection-between-salt-fat-acid-heat-and-ontario-manufacturing) ![](https://ontarioeast.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Mask-Group-4.svg) ## Subscribe to our eNewsletter ###### CONTACT US (613) 634-8569 623 Fortune Crescent, Suite 100 Kingston, ON K7P 0L5 [Email Us](mailto:info@ontarioeast.ca) ###### LINKS [Regional Profile](https://ontarioeast.ca/regional-profile/) [Available Properties](https://ontarioeast.ca/available-properties/) [Key Employment Sectors](https://ontarioeast.ca/key-employment-sectors/) [FAQs](https://ontarioeast.ca/faqs/) [News](https://ontarioeast.ca/news/) [Jobs & RFPs](https://ontarioeast.ca/jobs-rfps/) [Members](https://ontarioeast.ca/members/) [About Us](https://ontarioeast.ca/about-us/) [Events](https://ontarioeast.ca/events/) [Ontario East Municipal Conference](https://ontarioeast.ca/ontario-east-municipal-conference/) [Contact Us](https://ontarioeast.ca/contact-us/) ###### ZoomProspector [Admin Access Login](https://auth.zoomprospector.com/Account/Login?returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fadmin.zoomprospector.com%2FAccount%2FLoginCallback%3FreturnUrl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fadmin.zoomprospector.com%252F) © Ontario East Economic Development, 2026 Acme Co, Inc. 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