If a spring clean in the kitchen is in your sights, don’t even think about throwing out the wok, or hiding that pasta maker. SBS Food has been hard at work all in the name of bringing you plenty of new fresh food ideas and insights from every delicious corner of the globe.
Spanning this summer and next, your screens will be filled with wok-fired noodles, pizzas of the world, and a taste of the Top End, just to name a few reasons to get your buds into gear.
At the SBS Upfronts event today (Tuesday), food all-stars Diana Chan and Silvia Colloca were on hand to announce the highlights for SBS Food's programming slate over the next year. Needless to say, we wish we were eating while that announcement happened.
Silvia Colloca (left) and Diana Chan at SBS Upfronts Source: SBS
This is what your favourite food channel will be dishing up… #alwayshungry
The Great Australian Cookbook brings recipes from the homes of the nation's culinary legends. Source: The Great Australian Cookbook
The Great Australian Cookbook
Starts Friday 13 December, 2019 at 8:30pm
Over 11 episodes The Great Australian Cookbook takes you on an adventure right around Australia to meet the nation’s culinary legends. The series features a range of top chefs and cooks as they share their joy and love for food – with the recipes they cook for their family, friends or staff.
Starring the following well known and well-loved chefs and cooking sensations: Maggie Beer, Peter Gilmore, Matt Moran, Darren Robertson, Frank Camorra, Peter Russell-Clarke, Clayton Donovan, Paul West, Simmone Logue, Anna Polyviou, Matt Wilkinson, Matt Stone, Alla Wolf-Tasker, Ronnie Kahn, Victor & Evelyn Liong, Rayleen Brown, Merle Parrish, Nick Holloway, Gilbert Lau, Rodney Dunn, Ross O’Meara, and Sharon & Carol Salloum.
Asia Unplated with Diana Chan is a brand-new series coming to SBS Food. Source: Asia Unplated with Diana Chan
Asia Unplated with Diana Chan
Starts Thursday 19 December, 2019 at 7:30pm
MasterChef Australia 2017 winner Diana Chan invites audiences into her kitchen to learn a few Asian favourites and also bring to life family traditions from her friends and colleagues from the food industry. The brand-new series kicks-off with a flavour bang as Chan delves into the vibrant pop behind Vietnamese cooking. And why stop there, as South Indian, Cantonese and Japanese flavours are also making a play for the plate.
Throughout the series Chan is joined by a range of notable guests including Jerry Mai, Gary Mehigan and 2018 MasterChef winner Sashi Cheliah to cook a range of Asian dishes, as well as touring some of her favourite eateries across Melbourne.
Silvia Colloca shares her family recipes on the brand-new series. Source: Cook Like an Italian
Cook Like an Italian with Silvia Colloca
January 2020
Food writer and SBS's very own Silvia Colloca feels most Italian when she is in her kitchen. She still bakes with her mother, shares good food with friends and of course, cooks for her family but if you don’t have a treasured dowry of Italian home cooking know-how passed on to you from generations of Nonnas and Mammas, relax… because Silvia does and she’s eager to share it.
Silvia takes you by the hand to discover a new approach to everyday cooking, while guiding you through the tantalising world of authentic Italian home-cooking with her trademark enthusiasm and flare. Each episode features three dishes cooked by Silvia in her kitchen, trips to Italian delis, markets, and bakeries in search for the freshest ingredients, and a ‘Nonna’s corner’, where Silvia shares the tips and techniques passed on to her by her two nonnas.
Life is all about balance and Skehan leads by example. Source: Donal's Cook, Eat, Burn!
Donal’s Cook, Eat, Burn!
February 2020
Donal's Cook, Eat, Burn! sees Donal Skehan showing viewers how to cook healthy and delicious recipes that are designed to help us become more active and fuel fitness activities. In each of the six episodes, Donal shares his own new recipes, specially selected to enhance the day of physical exertion ahead. From kayaking to rock climbing, boot camp to mountaineering, and cycling to coast-eering, Donal cooks the ideal dishes to complement an energetic lifestyle.
Some of the travel-friendly feasts include tahini crunch noodle salad, spiced fish with mango salsa, beetroot burgers and filo pastry pie. Drooling yet?
Slice with Adam Richman
March 2020
Pizza lovers assemble! American TV host Adam Richman, known best for his competitive eating show, Man vs Food, takes viewers on an around-the-world eating adventure, seeking out the greatest slices of local food and culture. The series travels the world in search of the best of our favourite comfort foods. Pizza is the launching point - just one category of more than 160 styles of global flat breads, topped with everything from the rockstar favourite Italian sauce and sausage, to Armenian lamb and goat cheese - even Indian potato naan.
Ayme Un (left) of popular laksa restaurant, Warung Ibu Ayme in Darwin with Jimmy Shu. Source: Jimmy Shu's Taste of the Territory
Jimmy Shu’s Taste of the Territory
April 2020
Hosted by renowned Chinese-Sri Lankan Territorian chef Jimmy Shu, viewers will explore a diverse food scene unlike any other in Australia, through the sights, smells, breathtaking landscapes, and stories of the Top End’s most celebrated and hidden foodies. From renowned chefs to the street food of the famous Darwin markets, the resilient produce farmers, Indigenous bush foods, and food-obsessed local home cooks, Delicious Darwin takes you on an adventure to meet the region’s most fascinating people through their love affair with food.
Shu will guide the Top End culinary journey of multicultural influence from folding dolmas and frying mung bean doughnuts to cooking up citrus butter mud crab and exploring the best of Kakadu's bush foods.
Catch it all on-screen at SBS Food (channel 33), or later on . Until then we're just going to bake some of ... #justbecause
