Season 1
Taste Takes Off is a New Zealand food travel show in which host Peta Mathias travels to a wide variety of different countries to sample their cuisine and culture.
The series originally aired in New Zealand on TV One.
Taste Takes Off premiered in South Africa on DStv's Travel Channel on Monday 11 February 2008, at 22h00.
Repeats are on at the following times:
Tuesdays: 06h00, 11h00
Thursdays: 08h30
Fridays: 00h30
Sundays: 16h00
Synopsis
Peta Mathias is your global gourmet guide for this series as she samples everything from Mongolian hotpot to New Orleans soul food.
India, Chile, Hawaii and China are all on the menu as Peta tucks into a mouth-watering selection of dishes from street food to five-star cuisine.
Along the way we discover that the essence of a destination can be found in its people and its food. Peta and her team travel from Malaysia to Canada to Chile in their quest to bring fabulous food to audiences.
During the series, Mathias visits Thailand and discovers that there is more to Thai cuisine than the ubiquitous green curry.
In Australia she soaks up the atmosphere in wine-drenched Victoria and in Chile she encounters the culinary traditions of the native Indians and the Spanish conquistadors.