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10 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
In Litchfield National Park, south-west of Darwin, Jimmy joins crocodile ranger Matt Wright for a close encounter with a giant saltwater crocodile. Chief Scientist Charlie Manolis at Crocodylus Park Farm in Darwin describes the challenges of farming an apex predator. Jimmy's journey ends at Mindil Beach Market in Darwin where he feels croc-in-the-wok could catch on.
Episode 2
Jimmy Doherty is on the trail of Australia's wild foods. At Adelaide Central Market in South Australia, he has a go at making gourmet kangaroo bangers with farmer Richard Gunner. Aboriginal elder, Neville Poelina and his family, take him fishing for barramundi at Udialla Springs on the edge of the Western Desert, before Jimmy joins them for an outback supper.
Episode 3
Jimmy Doherty discovers the unique tastes of Australia's native plants. At Uluru in the heart of the continent he meets tribal elder, Happy who shows him how to forage and prepare wild berries and plants. Top Aussie chef Athol Wark prepares him a gourmet dinner with ingredients he has foraged from the wild. And on the remote Cape Leveque, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia Jimmy goes mud crabbing with Bardi elder, Brian Lee.
Episode 4
Jimmy Doherty explores how modern chefs are using native ingredients to bring new twists to contemporary Australian cuisine. At Reedy Creek Nursery, south east of Adelaide, horticulturalists Mike and Gayle Quamby are pioneering a commercial business growing and selling native plants. Adelaide chef Simon Bryant demonstrates their use in his thoroughly modern dish of 'driveway' pasta. In the Margaret River region of South West Australia, Jimmy meets Aboriginal chef Mark Olive who cooks him up kangaroo tail in a traditional sand oven.
Episode 5
Food expert Jimmy Doherty explores the food experiences of the first settlers who arrived in Australia two hundred years ago. At Kangaroo Island, seventy miles south of Adelaide, South Australia, kangaroo ranger Scott Ellson explains the importance of kangaroo to the diet of the early pioneers before Jimmy joins food expert Barbara Santich at a grand banquet to celebrate Australia's first cookbook, The Aristologist. Chester Osborn celebrates traditional wine making methods at his D'Arenberg vineyard in McLaren Vale whilst Italian immigrants Pat and Lina D'Onofrio offer inspiration with new discoveries - like their lemonade tree.
Episode 6
Jimmy Doherty discovers the ghost town of Farina, 370 miles north of Adelaide, whose fortunes were built on wheat, before discovering the story of Australia's Afghan cameleers with Karen Ellis and her family in the Flinders Ranges National Park in South Australia. Historian Pamela Rajkowski prepares him a cameleer's feast of goat curry. For pudding he heads to Kangaroo Island where he turns bee-keeper for the day with Betty McAdam, before chef Kate Sumner cooks up an Aussie favourite - pavlova.
Episode 7
Jimmy Doherty is on the trail of how 20th century innovations transformed Australia's food story. He travels to Mount Bundy cattle station in the Northern Territory, where he turns cowboy for the day with Sue and Scott Witham whilst chef, Lynton Tapp, digs out the billy cans to cook up a traditional camp supper. At The Road Transport Museum in Alice Spring Jimmy makes the acquaintance of Big Bertha - one of Australia's oldest road-trains, before hitching a ride on a new one. Finally he discovers how railways, and refrigeration helped brewers like Coopers, bring a cold beer to the desert.
Episode 8
On the trail of how scientific innovations have transformed Australia's food story, Jimmy Doherty travels to Manjimup in the South West corner of Australia. Here truffle farmer Al Blaker is using the latest advances in bio-engineering on his renowned truffle farm. And at the remote headland of Cape Leveque in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, pearl farmer James Brown is braving some of the most dangerous tides in the world, as he introduces a new delicacy to the food world - pearl meat. On the trail of how scientific innovations have transformed Australia's food story, Jimmy Doherty travels to Manjimup in the South West corner of Australia. He meets with both a truffle farmer and pearl farmer and is introduced to a delicacy of the world - pearl meat.
Episode 9
Jimmy explores how successive waves of new arrivals introduced new tastes to the continent. In Darwin he enjoys a traditional Greek barbeque with Jim and Patricia Christakos, and then crosses the continent to Adelaide on the trail of Australia's love of coffee. Ryan O'Rourke who sails one of Australia's few remaining pearl luggers describes the story of the early oyster and pearl immigrants, and life-saver Shani Copley shares with Jimmy the dangers that Australia's coastline still pose for the unwary. Finally Adelaide chef Duncan Welgemoed prepares a beach picnic with foods imported by the British settlers.
Episode 10
Jimmy explores the Asian influence on Australian cuisine at Rapid Creek market in Darwin. Farming entrepreneur Minh Do explains how he uses hydroponics to grow tropical fruits and vegetables, and top chef Jimmy Shu treats Jimmy to an Asian fusion feast at his Darwin based Hanuman restaurant.