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Italian Food Safari is the much-awaited next feast in the beautiful Food Safari series a celebration of the incredible breadth and hard work of the Italians who came and settled in Australia over a generation ago and have kept their food traditions intact. Mercifully, they ve shared their food and culture with the rest of us and we ve been delighted to embrace everything from classic dishes to the most rustic home-style food.

Presented by food explorer Maeve O Meara and legendary Melbourne chef Guy Grossi (Grossi Florentino, Mirka at Tolarno) Italian Food Safari spends time with Australias top Italian chefs and producers. In fact the whole 13-part series is a culinary Whos Who of Italian Australia.


Episode 10:
Air Date: 20 May 2010 7:30 PM
Italian Food Safari discovers an Italian breed of cattle called Chianina now being reared in Australia by Daniela Mollica, who brought the Slow Food movement to Melbourne.