This week's Food TV picks

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Monday 29 June

Italian Food Safari

Episode 10 airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Get the recipes from the episode, including potato and ricotta ravioli with speck and cavolo nero.

Tuesday 30 June

Italian Food Safari

Episode 11 airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Get the recipes from the episode, including minestrone.

Wednesday 1 July

Italian Food Safari

Episode 12 airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Get the recipes from the episode, including crostoli.

Thursday 2 July

Italian Food Safari

Episode 13 airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Get the recipes from the episode, including caprese salad.

Shane Delia's Spice Journey - Turkey

Episode 4 airs at 7.30pm on SBS ONE

Shane on making better beans: "This is the  most important part of the fava (broad bean). A lot of people take a short cut here and they'll just boil the hell out of it, chuck it in a food procesor to purée it. But you really want to whisk it and slowly let all the vegetables in there break up and become one."

Get the recipes from the episode, including truffle and crayfish fava.

Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom

Episode 8 (Edinburgh, Scotland) airs at 8pm on SBS ONE

Luke on top notch Scotch: "In Tokyo, they like to drink their whisky diluted with lots of water and in Madrid, they mix it with cola, and in New York, they shake up some amazing cocktails. I'm here at the Balmoral Hotel to meet a tartan butler, to show me how the Scots do it." 

Get the recipes from this episode, including haggis, cullen skink and stir-fried lemongrass beef with warm vermicelli noodle salad.

Head to the Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom for recipes, episode guide and our interview with Luke. 

Friday 3 July

In Search of Perfection - series 2

Episode 8 (Trifle) airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Heston on the spirit layer: "I know that most of us just rumage around in the back of the drinks cabinet, hoping to find an old bottle of sherry that we bought for Granny coming round, but this is a search for perfection, so I decided to go to Jerez in Spain, the home of sherry. " 

Get Heston Blumenthal recipes here, or check out our trifle recipes. Pictured: Pedro Ximenez jelly with chocolate and caramel layers.

Saturday 4 July

Heston's Feasts - series 1

Episode 5 (Christmas) airs at 6.30pm on SBS 2

Get Heston Blumenthal recipes here.

The Spice Trail

Watch the three-part series via OnDemand. 

Kate Humble goes on the trail of some of the world's most valuable spices revealing their history, trade, mythology and usage. In episode 1, Kate retraces the steps of 15th century explorers, journeying to India and Sri Lanka, the birthplaces of pepper and cinnamon.

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