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Jamie's Food Escapes

Premieres: Southeast Asia on Sept 9 at 9:00 pm; North Asia on Aug 16 at 8:00 pm

JAMIE OLIVER HITS THE ROAD AND HAS A TASTE OF LOCAL CULTURES ON JAMIE'S FOOD ESCAPES

Forget the usual tourist traps and well-trodden paths - when on holiday, Jamie Oliver reckons that you can learn a lot more about a place from how its locals cook and eat. In Discovery Travel & Living's new series JAMIE'S FOOD ESCAPES, Jamie meets local families, cooks and farmers, tastes delicious indigenous dishes and gets inspired to cook up his own. From truffle and boar hunting in the French Pyrenees to spear fishing off an island near Athens, Jamie attempts to uncover the freshest, most authentic dishes. Join the intrepid chef as he discovers the treasured individuality of world cuisines on JAMIE'S FOOD ESCAPES.

After an American road trip and great Italian escape, Jamie Oliver is back on the road for a culinary expedition across Europe and North Africa. On this brand new series, Jamie visits six places - Marrakech, Athens, Andalucia, Stockholm, Venice and the Midi Pyrenees in France - and discovers outlets that would soon become his regular weekend break favourites. As ever with Jamie, expect the unexpected as this unconventional chef ventures off the main tourist track to get to the heart of each place through its food. In each episode, Jamie also immerses himself in the unique cultures of each destination, explores markets, and learns traditional cooking practices from the locals.

From dodging snake charmers in Morocco in search of its famed street food, to training with bullfighters and making paella to feed a whole village in Spain, to sampling reindeer heart and fermented herring in Sweden, JAMIE'S FOOD ESCAPES will introduce you to fantastic new recipes and flavours - with a healthy dose of adventure! You might even rediscover some of the amazing cuisine you enjoyed on your own holidays but just never knew how to make.

JAMIE'S FOOD ESCAPES episode descriptions:

Marrakesh
Jamie is in Morocco, dodging snake charmers to try out the street food of Marrakesh such as slow-roasted lamb in cumin, and almond and rose water cakes. Later he joins a family for some Moroccan home cooking, and makes his own versions of chicken and lemon tagine, Moroccan roast lamb, and a 'snakey cake' made of filo pastry, almonds and rose petals.

Andalucia
Jamie travels to Andalucia where he trains with some young bullfighters in Spain's oldest bull ring, makes paella for a whole village, and cooks rabbit stew with some hunters. He also prepares an authentic gazpacho, pork chops with Spanish beans, salt-roasted fish, an amazing tomato salad with chorizo and a quail's egg breakfast with black pudding.

Stockholm
Jamie is in Stockholm where he samples reindeer heart, a fermented herring that smells like a stink bomb, and picks wild mushrooms and blueberries on the islands nearby. Here Jamie indulges in the Swede life by making pike perch, gravadlax and roasted beetroot salad.

Venice
When in Venice, Jamie bounces off tourist traps and experiences delicious authentic tastes the real Venice has to offer. Jamie tries his hand at fishing and cooks up spaghetti vongole. He also learns the secret to making the best risotto in the world, beef carpaccio and the perfect Venetian tiramisu.

French Pyrenees 
In the French Pyrenees, locals dine on rich food fit for kings yet they have the highest life expectancy in France. Here, Jamie goes truffle-hunting with a pig and boar-hunting with dogs. He is then knighted into an order of serious bread makers and makes sausages with a professional.

Athens
In Athens, Jamie goes spear fishing off a Mama Mia-style island, meets bee keepers who produce the most amazing honey and are full of even more amazing stories about bee sex. He makes goat cheese with a Greek Orthodox monk, and prepares a Greek salad, and pistachio and honey cake.