Pan, Techo y Fuego BreadRoofFire
Ember is a dog who has lived in every age. He travels with his family, ordinary people who change clothes, names and trades in every century, and open their door so we can see how people really ate, kept warm, healed and worked.
The red cloth: they always wear it
Ember, who always knows the warmest spot
Latest homes we visited
A year at the table of a farming family in southern Korea: grain with barley, little side dishes and a radish kimchi without a speck of chili. Why was it white?
One room for the whole family and, in a corner, a huge block of clay with no chimney. We spend the winter in a smoke-blackened izba.
The family
A winter in a Russian izba, a year at the table in Korea… In every episode they live in another place and another century, with its clothes, names and trades. What never changes is how much they love each other.
Huge eyebrows and a face that says it all, especially when things go wrong.
Big eyes, hair tied up and, quite often, the one who knows how it’s done.
Four years old and very clever. She adores her mum and plays tricks on her dad.
The family dog. The only one who never changes, in any age.
On top of the stove, with the whole family.
The series
What you take away
Every story has its own mood: at a feast we celebrate, in a hard winter we grit our teeth. And you always find out those people knew exactly what they were doing.
To share over dinnerWhy they slept on top of the stove, why kimchi used to be white. Concrete things you won’t forget.
“My grandmother used to do that”Many of those old solutions are still alive in some kitchen, some village or some family home.
Back in every videoDad, mum, the little one and Ember: they change centuries, but you always recognise them.
At the end of every video
“My grandmother used to do that”, “we only had one warm room at home”. The best part of every episode is in the comments: tell us how your people managed.
Bread, roof and fire — that’s how they managed in Kostroma.
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