About this season
In Shane Delia’s Spice Journey, Shane takes us on a culinary pilgrimage to explore his heritage and discover Middle Eastern food traditions that go back thousands of years.
Episodes (10)
1. Ottomani: Ottomania: Food Fit for Sultans (Istanbul)
Aired 2 May 2014
Shane witnesses the rebirth of Ottoman cuisine and traditions in this exotic city that straddles the continents of Europe and Asia and literally joins the East and West.
2. Warriors and Wine-Dark Seas
Aired 8 July 2014
Shane alights at Gallipoli almost one hundred years after the famed 1915 ANZAC landings, and gets to know the Dardanelles- witnessing how the local cuisine has been influenced by the incursion of so many different cultures.
3. Shifting Sands of the Aegean
Aired 14 August 2014
Shane meets descendants of Greek Muslim families forcibly relocated to Turkey from Greece in the infamous population exchange of 1923, and is introduced to some of the culinary delicacies they brought with them.
4. Bodrum Peninsula: Turkish Delights from the Deep
Aired 21 August 2014
Shane hops aboard a glamorous boat, manoeuvres between the billionaires' super yachts and motor cruisers that dock in Bodrum, and heads out over the briny blue to experience the seafood that makes this area a foodie heaven.
5. Fethiye: Land of Plenty (2014)
Aired 28 August 2014
Shane visits Fethiye, an English tourist haven, to see whether local Turkish food culture has survived the onslaught of mass tourism.
6. Cappadocia: The Heart of Anatolian Cuisine
Aired 4 September 2014
Shane explores some of Turkey's most famous flavours in Cappadocia, home to an ancient landscape, along with ancient underground cooking techniques.
7. Food Culture at the Dawn of Civilisation
Aired 11 September 2014
Shane journeys to the headlands of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in Turkey and encounters living history on a plate.
8. Trabzon: A Hungering for Hamsi
Aired 18 September 2014
Shane journeys north across the Pontic Mountains, to reach the Black Sea port town of Trabzon, where he tracks down a very special fish, known as the hamsi, and recipes that do this small, anchovy-like creature, culinary justice.
9. Ordu: Where Georgia's Always on Your Mind
Aired 25 September 2014
In Ordu, Shane is introduced to a cuisine whose culinary heritage lies to the north in Georgia, the former Soviet state.
10. Istanbul Secrets: The Culinary Underbelly
Aired 2 October 2014
In Episode One, Shane got to know the public face of Istanbul. In Episode Ten, he peeks behind the veil to discover a side of this city, and its culinary traditions, rarely seen by visitors.