Television Programs of Interest

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th Dec to Fri 10th Dec 2010)

KYLIE KWONG: MY CHINA - HONG KONG, EP 2 OF 9
Kylie Kwong returns to the land of her ancestors and confronts the vast contrasts of China to take us on a culinary journey. This week, Kylie continues her search for Chinese culinary traditions in the familiar surroundings of Hong Kong. As she works her way through flying fish and urinating shrimps, Kylie wonders if there is such a thing as typical Hong Kong food. She finds the answer in a speakeasy.
Saturday 4 December 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

BUSH SLAM: COWRA - EP 1 OF 6
Sharpen your pencils and lick your biros for a television series like no other! Hosted by H.G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Bush Slam puts poets and poetry in motion across Australia to discover the true spirit of the country. H.G. is at the wheel of the Bush Slam bus and each week he is taking two very different artists to explore a rural community and meet its people. The two poets are given just three days to capture the heart of the town in verse - and then the tricky bit, to perform their work before the locals in a live head-to-head poetry slam for a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down!
Sunday 5 December 2010 7.00pm
ABC2 Rating: G CC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

IN SEARCH OF PERFECTION: RISOTTO - EP 7 OF 8
Heston takes on an Italian favourite - risotto.
Sunday 5 December 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 30 mins

IN SEARCH OF PERFECTION: TRIFLE - EP 8 OF 8
Heston takes on the trifle.
Sunday 5 December 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 30 mins

WILLIE'S CHOCOLATE REVOLUTION: EP 1 OF 3
In this three-part series, British chocolate enthusiast Willie Harcourt-Cooze attempts to create the finest and purest chocolate bar in the world, and teach chocoholics how wonderful real chocolate can be.
Monday 6 December 2010 9.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 50 mins

MADE IN SPAIN WITH JOSE ANDRES
Made in Spain highlights the extraordinary cooking traditions of a country whose food and wine is capturing the world's imagination. Jose Andres brings us the exciting flavours of his native Spain with easy and informative recipes created in his own kitchen.
Wednesday 8 December 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO WS
Duration: 30 mins

GOURMET FARMER: PIGS PROSCIUTTO AND OFFAL - EP 2 OF 10
This series follows former SMH food editor, Matthew Evans' transformation from Australia's most feared critic to small landholder in Tasmania. Tonight, pork is on the menu as Matthew makes prosciutto and learns what to do with offal, as well as buying his own piglets.
Thursday 9 December 2010 8.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

LUKE NGUYEN'S VIETNAM: SERIES 2 - EP 2 OF 10
In the second episode, Luke stops off in Dong Hoi and prepares a dish for a family on route to Vinh. After another three hours drive Luke explores the vibrant market lifestyle in this small country town where locals, all too keen to lend a hand with his recipes of eel and pork neck, crowd around him.
Thursday 9 December 2010 7.30pm
SBS ONE CC WS
Duration: 30 mins

COULD YOU EAT AN ELEPHANT?Fergus Henderson and Jeremy Lee are two of the UK's most daring chefs. Both are at the frontline of 'nose to tail' eating, which literally means that everything is on the menu. Now they are being sent on an epic culinary journey across Europe, Asia and Africa to truly test their own limitations. The duo attempt to eat their way up through the ladder of animals considered taboo for consumption in Britain but very much part of the daily diet in other parts of the world.
Thursday 9 December 2010 8.30pm
SBS ONE CC WS
Duration: 60 mins

RUDE BOY FOOD: EP 7 OF 10
Aaron Craze cooks up his twist on good old British pub food on a camping trip with his old Essex mates.
Friday 10 December 2010 8.00pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 25 mins

TROPIC OF CANCER: WESTERN SAHARA TO LIBYA - EP 2 OF 6
Simon Reeve continues his epic journey around the world following the Tropic of Cancer. The second leg of the journey sees Simon dodge the Moroccan secret police in Western Sahara, travel on one of the world's longest trains in Mauritania, visit a forgotten refugee camp in the Algerian desert where more than 100,000 people live, and take a swim in a Libyan oasis with a government minder who bears an uncanny resemblance to Colonel Gaddafi.
Friday 10 December 2010 7.30pm
SBS ONE CC WS
Duration: 60 mins