The Food Lovers' Guide to Australia
Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill explore the best food and produce Australia has to offer.
- 1996-2005
- 5 seasons
- Documentary
Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill explore the best food and produce Australia has to offer.
Season 5 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2005
Episode 1
Fish Soup and Rice
26 mins
Maeve gets an old family recipe from a famous Broome clan, the singing Pigram Brothers, and Joanna hangs out with chef Simmon Hawke, who cooks snails Italian style.
Episode 2
Sea Cucumber
26 mins
Joanna goes on a fishing trip with the sea cucumber divers of the far north, and Maeve meets the most passionate eggplant grower ever in Carnarvon, Western Australia.
Episode 3
The Desert Taverna
26 mins
Maeve stops at a Greek taverna at the edge of the desert for bouzouki and souvlaki among the opal mines, and Joanna joins a group of lotus eaters (literally) in far north NSW.
Episode 4
Hmong Banana Growers
26 mins
Joanna visits the Hmong community of Innisfail in far north Queensland who use every part of the banana plant for eating, and Maeve sits down to Sunday lunch Sri Lankan-style.
Episode 5
Cheddar
27 mins
Maeve O'Meara learns some of the secrets of our best cheddar from Tasmania, while Joanna Savill gets to taste several varieties of pomegranates at a farm in Robinvale, Victoria.
Episode 6
Buffalo
26 mins
Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill continue to explore the best food and produce around. Today, Joanna helps build a pit oven close to the Kakadu wetlands, and Maeve enjoys Greek Easter.
Episode 7
Walnuts
26 mins
Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill continue to explore the best food and produce around. Today Maeve visits a Tasmanian walnut farm, and Joanna tries goat meat, Moroccan style.
Episode 8
Han Sun
26 mins
Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill continue to explore the best food and produce around. Today Joanna is in Broome to hear the stories of the Chinese settlers who live there.
Episode 9
Southern Blue Fin Tuna
26 mins
Maeve visits the southern blue-fin tuna pens off the South Australian coast, and Joanna finds out why taro should be the new miracle ingredient, before heading to Dunk Island for an elegant taro dinner.
Episode 10
Slow Food
27 mins
Maeve discovers the secrets of saffron and a few facts about the world's most expensive spice, and later we revel in Byron Bay cookery writer Nadine Abensur's new vegetarian' creations.
Episode 11
Blue Swimmer Crab
26 mins
Maeve takes us blue swimmer crab harvesting in Western Australian waters, while Joanna wades through the rice paddies of the Riverina and has lunch with a four-generation Italian rice-farming family.
Episode 12
Bullboars
26 mins
Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill continue to explore the best food and produce around. Today, Marjorie Bligh, popular author of cooking books in Tasmania; sushi making in Ultimo; Byron Bay Native Produce; and spit roast in Adelaide.
Episode 13
Sun Pictures
26 mins
Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill continue to explore the best food and produce around. Today, Maeve visits the old Sun Pictures - a Broome institution, and Joanna discovers pistachios.