Shane Delia's Spice Journey

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February 2020
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Having travelled close to 2000 kilometres on his journey across the Middle East and gained glimpses into 2000 years of Persian culinary history, Shane Delia arrives in Iran's north, which borders Turkey and the Caspian Sea and where the food influences are very Ottoman. Here Shane visits the world's oldest covered bazaar.
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Shane Delia's culinary journey across the Middle East continues as he travels from Isfahan, the ancient capital of Persia to Tehran, capital of contemporary Iran. From the ancient city of minarets, palaces and mosques to funky teahouses of the modern city, Shane discovers a very different culture. His preconceptions about ...
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Shane Delia's culinary journey across the Middle East continues as he travels to Iran, home to one of the world's most influential cooking traditions - Persian cuisine. From the Arabic and African spice coasts of the Persian Gulf, Shane travels inland to Shiraz, city of pomegranates, walled gardens and Persian haute cuisin...
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Shane Delia's culinary journey across the Middle East continues in Iran as he takes to the silk road to meet nomads that have been keeping ancient methods of bread making alive. Shane visits the largest saffron farms in the region and crosses a desert to the hottest city in Iran to taste pashmak - the original fairy floss.
January 2020
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Shane Delia’s culinary journey into Middle Eastern cuisine continues as he visits the twin port cities of Sidon, where the beautiful people play and pop-up restaurants cover the beach. Shane then travels into the hills to visit an area devastated by bombs but which now produces some of the best goats’ cheese in Lebanon. Ba...
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Shane Delia's culinary journey continues as he travels to Beirut where, despite the visible scars of the recent civil war, a vibrant food scene is driving a renaissance in Arabic cuisine. Shane visits one of the oldest refugee camps in the world to learn a traditional Palestinian dish, explores the Armenian region of the c...
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Shane Delia's culinary journey into Middle Eastern cuisine continues as he explores mountain hideouts in central Lebanon where he learns age-old methods of meat preservation from members of the ancient and mysterious sect of the Druze. Inspired by this unique mountain cuisine, Shane heads home to create contemporary versio...
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Shane Delia's culinary journey into Middle Eastern cuisine continues as he travels to the Bekka Valley and visits the ancient temple of Bacchus, the god of fertility. Here he stops at Lebanon's finest vineyards and learns about the art of Arabic winemaking. After dropping in on local farmers to taste some traditionally cur...
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Shane Delia’s enthusiasm for food and culture comes together in this ten-part series, as the award-winning chef takes a culinary journey into Middle Eastern cuisine. Shane heads to his homeland, the old Phoenician outpost of Malta where the aromatics and spices of the Middle East mingle with European traditions of the Medi...
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Shane Delia's culinary journey into Middle Eastern cuisine continues as he explores the souks of Tripoli. There he learns how food traditions of the ancient port city have been shaped by centuries of trade and travellers. Shane then heads home to create his own modern day Tripoli banquet of samke harra, mougrabieh and trad...
November 2019
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Shane arrives back in Istanbul along the Bosphorus in a private launch, past jet boats docked at renovated wooden waterside palaces, and crossing the wake of countless passenger boats. He can tell there’s a whole lot more going on here below the surface than meets the eye, and he’s determined to find a way to access Istanb...
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In Ordu, Shane is introduced to a cuisine whose culinary heritage lies to the north in Georgia, the former Soviet state. As he joins the hazelnut harvest, and visits an emerald green tea plantation, Shane is introduced to an entirely different and very surprising school of Turkish cooking.
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Thousands of years ago, the foundations of Middle Eastern cuisine were laid in Mesopotamia. Shane journeys to the headlands of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in Turkey and encounters living history on a plate. The flavours and dishes he experiences here are unlike any others he’s discovered on his journey through Turkey. ...
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Shane journeys north to reach the Black Sea port town of Trabzon, where he tracks down a very special fish, known as the hamsi, and recipes that do this small, anchovy-like creature, culinary justice. Along the way, Shane undertakes a culinary odyssey, stopping in villages while crossing the Pontic Mountains, to meet mount...
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The Heart of Anatolian Cuisine - Shane explores some of Turkey’s most famous flavours in Cappadocia, home to an ancient landscape, along with ancient underground cooking techniques. The extraordinary – and very suggestive – ‘fairy chimneys’ of Cappadocia are the result of a fairly mundane geological process, and for thousa...
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Shane visits one of Turkey’s most fertile and ecologically diverse regions, Fethiye. Shane wants to see what’s going on beyond the tourist locales and heads into the hinterland to see whether the local Turkish cuisine – celebrated for thousands of years for its creative use of the peerless fresh produce and wild ingredient...
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Shane discovers how the state of flux that characterises this region has given rise to a cuisine and culture that draws on ancient traditions carried by people moving from one place to the next. Shane meets descendants of Greek Muslim families forcibly relocated to Turkey from Greece in the infamous population exchange of ...
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Bodrum Peninsula: Turkish Delights from the Deep - Shane heads off to explore the Bodrum Peninsula, on board the Regina – a luxury schooner that featured in James Bond’s most recent film, Skyfall. After all, the best way to see the Bodrum Peninsula – the jewel of western Turkey and heartland of Turkish Aegean cuisine – is ...
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Back with his new series, Shane Delia witnesses the rebirth of Ottoman cuisine and traditions in Istanbul, the city that straddles the continents of Europe and Asia. The episode follows Shane as he explores the lifestyle of the sultans. Then, wanting to see how the other half lived during Ottoman times, he joins the people...
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Shane alights at Gallipoli almost one hundred years after the famed 1915 ANZAC landings. From here, he gets to know the Dardanelles, and witnesses how the local cuisine has been influenced by the infiltration of so many different cultures. He also travels to the hinterland to meet people who prepare food according to local...
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