Just goes to show you that you can grow up in a country completely unaware of how it’s perceived from the outside! However, although the range of food available in Australia when I was growing up was what I considered fairly diverse, many Australians (including my grandparents), didn’t really venture much further than “meat and three veg” (lamb chops, peas, carrots and potatoes) and although I knew this, I have to admit being a little shocked (and sad!) to hear on Girl Eat World that “for much of its history Australian cuisine has been described as the most boring cuisine in the world.” Wow, really? I’d actually never heard that before now. Perhaps I was lucky that my mum was an adventurous cook (and that we travelled a fair bit when I was little so we were more familiar with foreign food than many) because I know that Australian food didn’t really have much of a place on the international culinary stage until relatively recently. My food memories from my childhood are of eating interesting, varied cuisines, which were available thanks to Australia’s large population of immigrants from all over the world. Of all the episodes, I was the most keen to watch the Sydney episode (airs Monday, November 2nd at 9pm) obviously since I grew up in Australia. In order to get the “inside scoop”, Kamini turns to local food bloggers and together they visit off-the-beaten-track places, markets, trendy restaurants and up-and-coming eateries in an effort to uncover the current food scene in each city and reflect on the culinary history there. Kamini’s mission is “to discover how food is changing the way people think about themselves and their city” and she sets out to learn about the history, culture and ethnic diversity of cities all over the world through their food. This 10-part travelogue will also be available for streaming at tvo.org/thefoodchain. The first show in the series is a 10-part show called Girl Eat World, hosted by Kamini Pather (winner of MasterChef South Africa Season 2) and it premieres tonight, October 26th 2015 at 9pm. The Food Chain is a multi-platform series of documentaries and current affairs which sets out to examine what we are eating, where it come from and how it appears on our plate within political, social and economical contexts. Ever thought about what/ who shaped the type of cook or eater that you are today? Are your food habits largely influenced by your upbringing/ family or more by the environment in which you grew up? How does cuisine evolve with the movement of people around the planet and given the ease of knowledge transfer these days? If you’re interested in questions like this, a new TVO series, The Food Chain should definitely be on your viewing radar.
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