Actor, producer and director Aaron Fa’aoso will debut his tantalising TV series Strait to the Plate next month on NITV and SBS Food, taking viewers on a delectable odyssey through the Torres Strait Islands. Premiering 7:30pm Thursday 22 April on NITV and SBS Food.
What better way to get to know people than through their food. Over five episodes, Strait to the Plate will unearth a feast of signature culinary delights, navigating through six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and providing a contemporary snapshot of the people, food, language and life in the Torres Strait Islands.
Aaron visits Badu, Poruma and Moa islands, as well as Indigenous and Torres Strait communities in the Northern Peninsula Area at the tip of Cape York. In each location, Aaron meets locals who have perfected their signature dishes.
Learn how to create three tasty meals with one freshly caught snapper and watch Aaron as he gets a masterclass in fusion cooking from an old friend. Aaron dives for giant clams and learns how to make a delicious Coconut Clam Curry. He helps a group of locals dragnet over 100 parsa fish before embarking on a forage for gassi. Every dish tells a story about the Torres Strait and the many peoples who’ve contributed to the rich culture of these islands.
Red Chef Revival is an intimate exploration of modern Indigenous cuisine through the eyes of three chefs - New York Times featured Cezin Nottaway, Top Chef finalist Rich Francis, and Chopped finalist Shane Chartrand. Using food as their access point, these chefs discover a new path to reconciliation. Red Chef Revival features ingredients you won’t find in any cookbooks, like bison heart, beaver tail, moose nose, seal, and cougar. More than a cooking show, this is a people’s story on a plate.
Join author, chef, and MasterChef Canada winner Mary Berg in the kitchen as she offers up advice for dealing with cooking stress, as well her tips and tricks for saving time in the kitchen.
After falling in love with the sights, smells, and of course flavours of Southeast Asia in his many travels through the region, David Rocco has decided to see what this tropical wonderland has in store for him. Travelling to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, David learns traditional dishes and samples the street food he’s heard about from foodies all over the world. Seeing first-hand the unique cultures thriving in rural villages and the bustling cosmopolitan cities, David is inspired to share with the world the stories of the people he meets along the way.
Celebrated cook and restaurateur, Stefano de Pieri, takes us on a unique and insightful field trip to explore one of Australia’s most productive regions, the Murray-Darling River Basin.
Rick heads to the place where his passion for Cornwall began - his family home at Trevose Head on the north Cornish coast, where as a child he would go fishing with his father. He explores the wild yet beautiful landscape of the Land’s End peninsula with the artist Kurt Jackson, before heading to the tranquillity of an heritage apple orchard preserved by head gardener John Harris. Here Rick picks some apples to make his mother’s Apple Charlotte pudding.
Join the Hairy Bikers as they fulfil their long held ambition - taking on one of the world’s most iconic road trips - America’s Route 66 - spanning over two thousand miles of tarmac from Chicago to California. With a large helping of their signature warmth and humour, Si King and Dave Myers explore modern America via the ‘Mother Road’ and learn how it drives you into America’s past, meeting the communities, cultures, and cuisines along the way.
Orlando Bloom shows off his knife skills when he cooks up a Moroccan lamb shank tagine, Jamie makes fragrant Asian-style seafood parcels, and Jimmy takes on the great British banger, showing how to make his own DIY version.
Rick Stein’s Cornwall is relatively new: it was filmed in September and October 2020 (during COVID) and debuted on BBC2 in January this year. It was reportedly renewed for a second series.
It is also Rick Stein’s first show not to be produced by production company Denhams, following the death of veteran producer David Pritchard in 2019, during the filming of Rick Stein’s Secret France (which aired on ABC TV in January this year).
Full flavours, aromatic spices and LOTS of share plates. That’s what Middle Eastern cooking is all about and Shane Delia is back to show us how to bring the magic of this cuisine into our own kitchens with his new series A Middle East Feast from Thursday 24 June 8.00pm on SBS Food.
Over ten episodes, award-winning chef Shane Delia will take viewers on a tantalizing and flavourful journey through an array of Middle Eastern dishes. From Turkey to Oman, Israel to Lebanon, Shane will draw on different cultural influences to recreate the food traditions of the Middle East and delve into the stories behind these recipes steeped in history.
Each episode the Maha chef is joined in his studio kitchen by local bakers, cooks and café owners who share their secrets to creating juicy chicken shawarma, oozing knafeh and sweet sticky pastries. A Middle East Feast with Shane Delia is your passport to a delicious journey filled diverse cultural stories, friendly local faces and mouth-watering Middle Eastern flavours.
TBI reports JCG in South Korea and National Geographic channel in India had bought SBS shows Food Safari Earth, Food Safari Water and Food Safari Fire, while NGC had also acquired Italian Food Safari, French Food Safari and the original Food Safari.
Join French maître d’hôtel Fred Sirieix as he is guided around the world to foodie hotspots by leading chefs in their chosen city. Together they will experience three restaurants where they love to eat and explore what makes them so special. Episode 1: Marrakes
Jamie’s Food Escapes sees Jamie Oliver turn food tourist. Join Jamie as he explores the cuisines of Europe and North Africa, and see him at his most inspired and inspiring as he cooks, farms, meets local families, and tastes delicious Indigenous dishes.
Comedian and actress Amy Schumer learns tips and tricks for preparing delicious meals at home, during quarantine, from her professional chef husband Chris Fischer. While Chris serves up their favourite dishes, Amy prepares cocktails.
There have been two seasons (eight episodes in total) of Amy Schumer Learns to Cook since it debuted in the US in May 2020. Season 1 was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program but lost to Netflix show Cheer.
