Taste of Home

For more than 10 years "Taste New Zealand" has featured the best of New Zealand cuisine on screen, and more recently gastronome Peta Mathias travelled the world for culinary inspiration in "Taste Takes Off". Peta's latest venture combines the flavours of NZ with international fare - but in a series that is closer to home.

"A Taste of Home" celebrates the best of the newest of New Zealand cuisine, brought to our shores by recently adopted Kiwi's from all over the globe, countries like; Korea, Russia, India, France, Brazil, Northern Africa & the Middle East.

With humour and much love Peta discovers the secrets, the frustrations, the celebrations and of course Taste the food of a new migrant's home country - made in their new home, New Zealand.

Taste Takes Off

Taste New Zealand, New Zealand's most successful food travel show is spreading its wings and taking off to destinations around the Pacific Rim in Taste Takes Off.

New Zealand's footloose travel writer and television foodie Peta Mathias explores the flavours, the style and the sights of 10 destinations of the Pacific, including Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, California and Canada. "There's no better way to discover the culture of the country than through its food," says Mathias.

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NZ House & Garden     NZ House & Garden is TVOne's brand new, prime time home and garden series.  Each programme celebrates the homes, lifestyles and creativity of New Zealander's in Aotearoa, as well as Kiwi's who have made a life for themselves overseas.   While Miriama and Tony travel throughout New Zealand and around the globe visiting spectacular homes and gardens, Peta tastes her way through Aotearoa in search of ideas for entertaining, as well as showcasing the best in New Zealand cuisine.   View The Website
TASTE NEW ZEALAND Peta has presented NZ's most successful travel/food show Taste New Zealand for ten years on TV ONE. It screens at 8pm on Friday during the season and reruns are constantly being played at unheard of hours such as 6am. This show is witty, educational, informative and triples the business of any producer who features on it. It is also a valuable archive on food and cooking in New Zealand and tells the story of the culinary growth of an isolated but vivacious country. In the international version Taste Takes Off, Peta explores the flavours, the style and the sights of destinations like Rajasthan, Crete, Beijing, New Orleans, the Margaret River in Australia and North Yorkshire. "There's no better way to discover the culture of a country than through its food," says Mathias.

There are at least two cooking segments in the half hour show, one from a guest chef and one from Peta, both using products which have appeared in the show. "Taste NZ" was honoured with an international award at the "World Food Media Awards" in Adelaide in 1997. The presentation of a silver ladle was for best segment in a food program. In 2001 it won Best Electronic Media Award from the NZ Guild of Food Writers, in 2003 the same award plus the Supreme Award and in 2005 the same award for exhibiting mastery in the field of television. A Taste of Ireland won Best Television Magazine/Lifestyle Program for 2004 at Qantas Media Awards in May 2005.

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