Food Without Borders

Jess Ho gets lost - metaphorically and literally - while exploring Indian cuisine with chef Helly Raichura. After leaving her successful corporate career, Raichura began cooking for people in her home, on a mission to raise awareness of what Indian cuisine is and reimagine what it can be. Through storytelling, history and cooking her work create ties between Indian and Australian cuisine. And in our fast-paced, commercialised, and ever-changing world, Jess asks, how do we honour history and stay tied to our heritage through food? How can looking back inform our future?

We are talking only about butter chicken and tandoori food and that's not even like a percentage of what we have on offer. So I started researching about my heritage and how the food evolved.

Helly Raichura

Jess Ho with Helly

Credits

Hosted and Created by Jess Ho

Executive Producer: Beth Atkinson-Quinton

Senior Producer: Elle Marsh

Producer: Bez Zewdie

Sound Designer: Nicole Pingon

Mixed by Max Gosford

Theme and additional original music is by Jon Tjhia

Artwork: Jason Phu

SBS team: Joel Supple, Bernadette Phương Nam Nguyễn and Philip Soliman