Season 1
10 episodes · 2016
1Cooking with fire
In this flame-cooking master class, host Maeve O'Meara meets an impressive line-up of chefs and food purveyors from across Australia.
2Street food
Food Safari Fire explores the best char-grilled street food from around the world including Greek pork souvlaki, Abruzzese arrosticini, Malaysian satay, Vietnamese beef in betel leaves and Mexican fish tacos.
3The wood-fired oven
Food Safari Fire host Maeve O'Meara explores the versatility and culinary delights of the Wood fired oven from the healthy 6 minute standup fish to Neapolitan pizza, slow-cooked goat, sourdough bread and sensational Greek pie.
4Grilling passionate
Maeve explores how fire and coals create some of the world's most beloved recipes, including traditional Turkish kebabs, Portuguese sardines, marinated Chilean pork belly and a spicy masterpiece known as South African braais.
5The tandoor
Maeve seeks out recipes from the subcontinent and Armenia cooked with this ancient oven, including tandoori chicken and prawns, naan, lamb kebabs and an elaborate roast pumpkin.
6Spit-roasting
Maeve explores the Argentinian style of a la cruz cooking, and learns the secrets to Brazilian churrasco, Sardinian suckling pig, Portuguese piri piri chicken and a crowd-pleasing Greek Easter lamb.
7Pots and pans
Maeve discovers the secrets to Spanish perol, Croatian peka, Chinese claypot, Moroccan tajine and Lebanese saj - and why they taste so good.
8Asian barbecue
Maeve enjoys a sensuous feast of Asian flavours, from the Vietnamese lunch staple bun cha (marinated pork), to Chinese cumin lamb, Thai grilled chicken, Korean barbecue and the popular Japanese cooking technique, kushiyaki.
9Smoking
Meeting smoking masters from across Australia, Maeve tastes hot-smoked salmon and kingfish, the West African condiment shito, flavoursome smoked lamb, Irish cold-smoked green bacon and Kansas City-style ribs.
10Barbecue safarifinale
Catching up with other barbecue devotees, Maeve discovers there are many ordinary objects, including fridge parts, wheelie bins and lawnmowers can be welded into cooking devices.