The Good Cooks Episode Two: Fiji with Sarah Todd
Ғылым және технология
In episode two of ‘The Good Cooks’, Aussie chef and restauranteur, Sarah Todd, travels to Fiji to learn both how ACIAR is helping local farmers and to learn how to cook like a Fijian.
Despite its rich soil and tropical climate, increasingly unpredictable weather patterns combined with limited commercial farming knowledge meant most of Fiji’s fruit was imported and Fijian fruit growers were missing out on export opportunities that could change the lives of the locals.
So ACIAR used Australian overseas aid to bring together teams of Australian and Fijian scientists to work with the Fijian fruit farmers on a range of new agricultural programs.
Some designed innovative ways to protect fruit trees from cyclones and tropical storms. Others developed better suited varieties of fruit trees-a major success being a new export-quality Fiji red papaya.
By helping introduce infrastructure and knowledge to commercialise fruit production, ACIAR helped farmers significantly improve fruit quality at the same time as reducing costs, increasing local employment and growing revenue.
In this episode of 'The Good Cooks’, Aussie chef and restauranteur, Sarah Todd goes to a village on the outskirts of Nadi to meet local growers involved in the program who show her how to cook like a Fijian.
Sarah Todd
At the tender age of 18, Sarah was discovered as a model. She moved to Sydney, Australia under contract and then spent most of her career travelling the world and working for high-end fashion labels.
Sarah’s now classically trained in French cookery from Le Cordon Bleu and was pinned as the favourite to win MasterChef Australia Season 6. She has published her first cookbook with worldwide publishing house Penguin.
Sarah has filmed six television series. My Restaurant in India is a 6-part series showing Sarah’s journey from model to mum to MasterChef contestant to author to restaurant owner and is a lesson in doing business the Indian way. The series has been broadcast on SBS Australia, Food Network Australia, National Geographic, Fox Life India in 156 countries. Serve It Like Sarah is a 10-episode adventure, travel and food series. Sarah travels and cooks her way around Goa tasting local delicacies.
Sarah has achieved a new level in her career, from contestant and explorer to now an entrepreneur and an advisor to aspiring chefs and restaurateurs. She filmed Grilled in which she is the host and judge of a new restaurant start-up series airing on Fox Life in 2017. Currently in production is the second series of My Restaurant in India.
With thanks to the Fiji Ministry of Agriculture, Voivoi Estate, Aviva Farms, Bula Agroforestry Nursery, Nature’s Way Cooperative, Navilawa Village and the University of the Sunshine Coast.
For more information on the ACIAR project visit the project page: Enhanced fruit production and postharvest handling systems for Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga
Пікірлер: 48
Sarah: is it really cooked? Livai: i hope so the story of every Lovo ever!!
@tikikokorocowiri891
2 жыл бұрын
Ain't that the truth. Nek minnit droka na toa lmao
@gr8wh8orca53
2 жыл бұрын
lmao...sa donu.Is it cooked? Is everyones guess everytime 😂 I remember at times we used to forget to take out entire chicken or pot...time to dig again boys 🤣🤣
@ethan7484
2 жыл бұрын
classic ....
@gr8wh8orca53
2 жыл бұрын
@@ethan7484 😅😂🤣
God bless Fiji🇫🇯 God bless Australia🇦🇺 💕Love from USA 🇺🇸
Fijian here 🤚🏽 we absolutely have organic fruits & vegetables, thank you. maybe ensuring more time and money put into correct research would go a long way. we do import other fruits and vegetables that Cannot be grown on our soil due to the climate. other than that the average persons diet is made up predominantly of organic produce.
@greatidea7808
Ай бұрын
And don't let them destroy it.
Nau Marianna is every Fijian Bubu trying to teach us to cook 🤣
Well we might not have apple,grapes,pear,kiwis fruits but we have our own fruits like tarawau,kavika,dawa,and many more.. Nadi is heavily influenced but the western world if you wanna see the real Fiji don't stop at Nadi go out of VITI levu .
Key point is that the rocks you use in the love must also be washed and warmed up just right before you pop the food in - otherwise its all for naught. Best meal ever - just make sure you add lolo (using Coconut milk) and use that as your ‘gravy’ and its the best meal ever.
Where did she get that info???🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ Fiji does have its own organic tropical fruits and veggies. Imported fruits are ones that don’t grow in the tropical climate.
@muttsseru750
3 жыл бұрын
Ikr should've gone to the markets to see for herself 🤦♀️🤦♀️
@vandhnanarayan8369
2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Should have done a trip to any market for fact checking!!!
@dreamdoll8700
2 жыл бұрын
Frr
@Hustlelife3
8 ай бұрын
Dina sara!
That's true 👍 💯 vinaka Sarah and jasmine from nz nahthing like 🇫🇯fiji
Yep .... apples, grapes, oranges, pear, kiwi fruits cannot grow in Fiji due to our climate. But other tropical fruits are all home grown & organic Village people do not use fertilisers and people only eat organic. People in the islands normally do shifting cultivation and farmers moved to a new place when they don’t see their root crops grow well. After some years and they can move back for the primary reason of avoiding the use of fertilisers
❤❤❤❤❤Fiji
wish this was more Fijian led
@surrealentertainment9558
3 жыл бұрын
Sarah Todd was talking over them
@Hustlelife3
8 ай бұрын
Yep
Chef Sarah Todd is extremely gorgeous 😍
@surrealentertainment9558
3 жыл бұрын
The old man would agree
Vinaka Sarah...welldone mate! 👍
Could add a Maggi noodle flavor to the dalo leaves.Its like eating chicken with dalo leaves
Fiji only imports fruit that can not grow in Fijj because of the climate..it has its own tropical fruits..
Greta Job Sarah!
Wadji Livai 💙
The Fijian woman told her 3 times how to squeeze.
Jasmine my cousin! I miss you 😢 Love from your cousin in Japan
Wow
She didn't see that coming....getting told off from Bubu
That’s y we r Aussie vinaka ratu
Saraaah urooo💞🤣🙂straight organic💞🤣🙂...
Should have been more specific when describing kava as a drug as it has proven benefits. Taro leaves is not poison but may cause a reaction due to calcium oxalate. Hope that Sarah Todd was aware that there are other ethnic groups in Fiji who also have unique cooking styles and ways. Maybe next time...curry time.
awww
We want those fruits but we don't need them. We prefer our local produced fruits. Healthy and doesn't require manure especially that Kava roots 😉
You are wrong, we don't import tropical fruits.
Next time try visiting other places as well.....
Boiled food no taste
@eddietomasi6164
Жыл бұрын
Only for those who eat alot of food that has been mixed with drugs don't have any taste. In Fiji we eat organic food but not there. You need organic food to control Ur life.
Why scrape when you gonna peel it after....sa double job tale qori🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
That is Awesome
Flavorsome ga o io Sarah