
Kiran Jethwa
Self - Host


TV SERIES
Chef Kiran Jethwa travels to his homeland of Kenya to highlight what is great about the country's people, its way of life and, primarily, its food. In each episode, Jethwa discovers an ingredient a certain town is known for, and he meets the vibrant people - fisherman and farmers - responsible for procuring that resource.

Self - Host
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01Chef Kiran Jethwa travels to the Kenyan town of Malindi, where he collects tamarinds and catches some monstrous crabs.
02In Machakos, Kiran learns how to catch guinea fowl and marinate them from inside at the same time.
03Kiran heads to the lake in Naivasha, where Louisiana crawfish are a tasty presence.
04Kiran tries surfing cows in the Embu rice paddies, and protects the crops by joining a duck hunt.
05Heading west, Kiran visits a peanut farm and picks green bananas, before being caught by a storm while fishing.
06Kiran checks out mnazi, the local palm wine, and has an uncomfortable time trawling for prawns.
07This episode's dish requires a visit to two very different landscapes - a sweltering, crocodile-infested lake and freezing mountain slopes.
08Kiran meets fishermen who fashion improvised surfboards from debris and then paddle out into an estuary with a perilous tide.
09Kiran visits the Kericho man-made tea fields and learns the process of tea picking; he then travels to the Molo region where he smokes a prize Molo lamb with the tea leaves.
10A local cassava farmer supplies some seasoning before Kiran constructs his own spear gun to catch the main ingredient.
11Kiran makes poisonous hunting arrows while in the Maasai Mara; he investigates the Maasai approach to cattle husbandry.
12Kiran compares traditional and ultra-modern fishing techniques, before visiting smokehouses in Malindi.