We’ve had them as a kid, and you probably feed them to your kids today, but have you ever seen what goes into producing a raisin?   You will now.   From the fields to the table, we’ll take you inside one of California’s most famous agricultural products.   They start as grapes on the vines, then end up drying in the field, before being processed and sent around the world.   In the home kitchen of a raisin growers’ wife, we’ll make fritters and cinnamon raisin rolls.   Then, at Echo, one of the best restaurants in Central California, it’s quail with a raisin stuffing.   We’ll even have an appearance from one of the famous Dancing Raisins.

What can be better than that!

Special Thanks:
Lisa Tumminello, Karla Stockli

Sydney and Melbourne might get most of the press, but if you want to see where most of Australia’s goodies come from you’ve got to come to South Australia.   The capitol is Adelaide, an attractive city with one of the best produce markets I’ve ever visited.   We’ll take a little tour there-sampling the wares and meeting the personalities along the way.   Then, outside the city, in the Adelaide Hills, it’s strawberries at a local farm, organic produce at a local market, and a gourmet lunch set among the woods by a woman who does that kind of thing for a living.   As I said when I left, “I could live here.”

Special Thanks:
Mary Anne Kennedy, Ayla Tezel

Our setting is Telluride, Colorado-world-famous for its ski slopes and dramatic scenery.   Telluride is also home to some great cuisine, and we’ll be exploring it all.   Anchored at the historic New Sheridan Hotel, our visit includes a profile of its excellent restaurant The Chop House, along with three other of Telluride’s best eateries.  

Special Thanks:
Brinn Wellise, Howard Hian, Jenn Eastwood

Wine certainly isn’t the first thing you think of when you conjure up images of Switzerland, but after watching this show, that may change.   The Swiss have been producing wine for hundreds of years, and these days, the quality has never been higher.   We’ll journey to some of Switzerland’s best wine producing regions, including Geneva and The Valais.   We’ll see some of the steepest vineyards in the world, and taste elusive and exclusive wines made from grapes only found in Switzerland.   Along the way, of course, we’ll match the lovely Swiss elixirs with plenty of great Swiss cuisine.