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TASTES LIKE HOME ***New Series ***

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Series 3, Tastes Like Home on Monday 5th November,  RTÉ One at 7.30 PM

Series Overview

Six incredible cities, twelve emotive families and food cooked with a passion is the recipe for this year’s third season of Tastes Like Home with Catherine Fulvio. The six part series returns on Monday 5th November, promising a serving of delicious recipes steeped in tradition and a flavour of incredible culture and sights from locations right across the world.

Hosted by well-loved Chef Catherine Fulvio, the Tastes Like Home team travelled down under to New Zealand and Australia, as well as closer to home by going across Europe to Sweden, Cyprus and Gran Canaria, to capture six (6 episodes) individual stories, from people who refuse to let the physical distance from home curb their appetite for a home-cooked meal, a taste of home.

As well as re-creating familiar, hearty recipes for loved ones living abroad, the show introduces a series of national dishes and traditional favourites from right across the globe, from the flat white coffee claimed by the Kiwis, to the sweet potato Kumaras found in Maori cooking or the smoky flavours of the traditional ‘Kleftiko’ cooked in a clay oven and traditionally served at Cypriot weddings.

“Highlights from this year’s show include the taste of reindeer, bear and moose in Stockholm, learning about “wrinkly potatoes” in Gran Canaria as well as eating in one of the highest regarded restaurants in the whole world in Melbourne,” commented presenter Catherine Fulvio.

Apart from the buffet of culinary delights, viewers will also receive a flavour of the culture of many of the contestants’ foreign homes and the traditions of their friends and families.

“This series features a really great variety of stories. Viewers will learn about the culture of growing up in a Maori community, see a welcome Haka performed in New Zealand, and get a sense of the hustle and bustle of the second biggest fish market in the world in Sydney, as well as seeing the beauty of Stockholm and their subway art”, continued Catherine.

The first episode introduces Liz from Cabinteely, whose son James lives in Wellington, and dreams of the flavours of Fish Molee curry.

The second episode begins overseas in Stockholm, where we meet Anders who teaches us how to cook a Swedish Smörgåsbord with meatballs, lingonberry jelly and pickled cucumbers for his daughter Marie who now lives in the Gap of Dunloe in Kerry. Anders shows Catherine the old town and encourages her to eat some very unique foods before checking in to a hotel that used to be an airplane.

Episode three features mother and daughter Kate and Sarah, Catherine gets a tour of “the Rocks” goes backstage in the Sydney Opera House, meets an Irish Sydney Swan and gets to eat at 12-Micron.

Episode four is centered around sisters Niki and Jill who live in Bray and Gran Canaria respectively and their love of a family favourite dish pork stuffed with prunes. In Gran Canaria, Catherine visits Europe’s only coffee plantation, and samples “wrinkly potatoes”, before visiting a rum distillery.

Father and daughter Lorcan and Colleen are the stars of the second last episode, when viewers are treated to the Cypriot national dish, Kleftiko, and Catherine learns the secrets to making halloumi cheese.

The final episode sees Catherine visit Felicity in Cavan before travelling to Melbourne, to see Eoin & Jultz and they all visit the real Ramsey Street and hang out with the cast on the set of Neighbours television show, before lunching on a colonial tramcar and eating some of the best dumplings ever.

Series sponsored by Londis.

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Editor’s Notes:

About Catherine Fulvio:

Catherine Fulvio is without doubt, one of Ireland’s most celebrated female celebrity chefs, as well as TV presenter, author and owner of Ballyknocken Farmhouse & Cookery School in Co. Wicklow. Born and raised on the farm, and an ardent supporter of fresh and local produce and an advocate of the Stop Food Waste programme, Catherine prides herself on creating recipes that use seasonal, easily sourced, Irish quality ingredients. Her motto is “eat well be well” and her ethos is “farm to table” wherever possible. She is part of Ireland’s culinary revolution and works with Bord Bia and the EU promoting quality Irish produce locally and internationally.

Catherine’s TV series, (Catherine’s Family Kitchen, Catherine’s Italian Kitchen and Catherine’s Roman Holiday) have aired in over a dozen countries and this year the series Lords and Ladles, which Catherine co-presents, is doing exceptionally well internationally on Netflix. Catherine has also just completed a 6-part series with Lisa-Renee Ramirez, an Emmy Award-winning creator and producer for Recipe.tv. Catherine is the author of six cookbooks and is the food writer for Ireland’s largest selling lifestyle and entertainment magazine, RTE Guide. She is featured regularly in the Independent Saturday Magazine and is a regular contributor on the RTE Today Show. She owns and manages the Farmhouse & Cookery School www.ballyknocken.com in Co. Wicklow where she and her team of expert tutors teach cookery courses year round for public, private and corporate groups.