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November 14th 2006 01:59
The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia is a fantastic program that has run for several successful seasons on SBS. They showcase a diverse range of Australian cuisine stretching from the artful to the unusual and with a focus on Australia’s multiculturalism.
www.foodandwinelovers.com.au
Today’s episode included a segment on Turkish ice cream (Dondurma) which I’ve been lucky enough to try before. It is cold and tastes quite a lot like vanilla ice cream, but is very dense malleable. The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia follows an Auburn chef as he makes this delicacy from a natural gum called Sahlep. Sahlep is the dried powdered root of a wild orchid that grows in southern Turkey. Making the ice cream is a physically hard process, and the chef said that it is the difficulty of the procedure that makes the Dondurma taste so good. It is also amazing to watch as it is thick and elastic, enabling the cook to stretch, bend and shape it. They say that in Turkey ice cream is measured by the metre!
I was already glued to the screen at this point, but the next segment was very different and even more fascinating. It followed a group of Aboriginal women into the Tamani desert as they go on a goanna hunt. They roasted the goannas on hot coals and I have to admit even this looked tasty to me! Then back to a Northern territory kitchen where a master chef prepares a few dishes with the local people using bush tucker including goanna, kangaroo tail, bush tomatoes and witchetty grubs.
The website is a really great resource with tons of useful information even if you haven’t watched the program. There is a very effective search feature that divides information into the categories Food Art, Feasts Features, Recipes, Chefs and Produce. So you can get a lot of really detailed information about any aspect of the episode, including free recipes.
If you want to check out the Food Lover’s Guide to Australia, and I strongly recommend that you do, they are about halfway through the third series on SBS now. It airs at 7.30pm on Wednesdays. You can even sign up for an SMS alert so you never have to miss an episode! Alternatively, you can buy the series from the online store and watch at your leisure. http://www.marcom.com.au/ (View the SBS titles section)
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• to illustrate the program in question,
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www.foodandwinelovers.com.au
www.foodandwinelovers.com.au
Today’s episode included a segment on Turkish ice cream (Dondurma) which I’ve been lucky enough to try before. It is cold and tastes quite a lot like vanilla ice cream, but is very dense malleable. The Food Lover’s Guide to Australia follows an Auburn chef as he makes this delicacy from a natural gum called Sahlep. Sahlep is the dried powdered root of a wild orchid that grows in southern Turkey. Making the ice cream is a physically hard process, and the chef said that it is the difficulty of the procedure that makes the Dondurma taste so good. It is also amazing to watch as it is thick and elastic, enabling the cook to stretch, bend and shape it. They say that in Turkey ice cream is measured by the metre!
www.foodandwinelovers.com.au
www.foodandwinelovers.com.au
The website is a really great resource with tons of useful information even if you haven’t watched the program. There is a very effective search feature that divides information into the categories Food Art, Feasts Features, Recipes, Chefs and Produce. So you can get a lot of really detailed information about any aspect of the episode, including free recipes.
If you want to check out the Food Lover’s Guide to Australia, and I strongly recommend that you do, they are about halfway through the third series on SBS now. It airs at 7.30pm on Wednesdays. You can even sign up for an SMS alert so you never have to miss an episode! Alternatively, you can buy the series from the online store and watch at your leisure. http://www.marcom.com.au/ (View the SBS titles section)
It is believed that the use of low-resolution images and text extracts in this context
• to illustrate the program in question,
• with the owners’ names either visible on the image itself or written in the image description below,
on the www.foodherald.com hosted on a server in Australia by www.orble.com , qualifies as fair use under Australian copyright law.
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