Pati’s Mexican Table
From Monday 18 November at 4.00pm
In this colourful series, Pati Jinish travels through Mexico, being inspired by the colour, architecture and food of Mexico’s most exciting cities. She then returns to her own kitchen to combine traditional Mexican ingredients with contemporary new techniques.
Pati’s Mexican Table takes chef Pati Jinich to one the most traveled and talked about regions in all of Mexico, the vibrant and beautiful state of Oaxaca. Oaxaca is known as of one of Mexico’s top culinary destinations, and Pati is going on an in-depth tour, tasting everything from chocolates to cheeses, to moles and mezcal, and exploring the very best of what Oaxaca has to offer.
In mezcal country, she’ll visit a fifth generation, family-run mezcal producer and learn everything there is to know about making mezcal. She’ll travel off the beaten path to the tiny town where one of Oaxaca’s most celebrated chefs is still cooking recipes that have been handed down by her native ancestors for thousands of years. She’ll also meet Oaxaca’s expert mole chef, travel to the magical Mixteca region, and seek out the most prized recipes and ingredients in all of Oaxaca in both its top restaurants and markets.
Back in Pati’s home kitchen, those adventures become the inspiration for simple, family-friendly recipes to delight her friends and, of course, her three growing boys who always show up in the kitchen hungry.
Cheese Slices - Season 2
From Saturday 23 November at 7:30 PM
There is a revolution happening in the world of cheese.The growing consumer interest in how cheese is made, and where it comes from is encouraging an exciting global resurgence in artisanal cheese making. We are demanding tastier, more interesting cheeses with distinctive flavours, textures, and aromas.
Join international cheese specialist Will Studd as he savours the finest Spanish ewe’s milk cheese, matured Comté from the Alps, English Stilton and exciting handmade artisan cheeses from south-west Australia, Vermont, and Ireland.
Ainsley Eats The Streets
From Sunday 24 November at 7.35pm
Ainsley Harriott feels that when it comes to street food, he has played too safe - holidays with the family and business trips have not pushed his boundaries, but now it’s time for a change.
Ainsley has set himself a challenge to explore the world to discover the good, the bad and the ugly of global street food. If there are undiscovered recipes out there, he wants to find them, cook them and eat them.
Avoiding the Tourists-traps and finding genuine surprises in the world of food travel is getting evermore difficult but in an effort to remain fresh and original modern cooking is turning its eye to street food for inspiration. Street food has history, authenticity and an edgy excitement to it and that is what’s attracting diners away from their usual haunts and into the back streets of the major cities of the world.
(Previously seen on SBS and Netflix)
