Nova Scotia Hosting Episodes of Food Network Series

AGRICULTURE/FISHERIES--Nova Scotia Hosting Episodes of Food Network Series

This fall, Nova Scotia will be the destination of choice for a new Food Network Canada series called Fresh and Wild. Four of the 12 episodes are being filmed in the province.

The show features British chef Daniel Boome visiting some of the province's most inspiring hotels and inns. Using the inns as base camps, he and Canadian colleague, Ellen McKinney, venture into the hinterland to meet Nova Scotian producers of top quality food products.

On their food-inspired excursions the hosts make Canadian friends, see how the food is produced and cook together "in the rough." The hosts then invite the food producers back to the inns and incorporate the same ingredients in exciting new dishes and edible souvenirs of their road trips.

"Nova Scotia is famous for fresh seafood and agriculture products," said Chris d'Entremont, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. "It's great to be recognized by the Food Network as a destination for an internationally viewed series."

The Nova Scotia episodes will feature visits with a lobster fishermen in Lunenburg, a scallop fishermen in Digby, a mussel farm in Ship Harbour and a honey farm in Truro. Cooking segments will be filmed at the Bluenose Lodge, Harbourview Inn, Salmon River House Country Inn and the John Stanfield Inn.

"Nova Scotia was selected not only because it has wonderful fresh and wild food, but it has character and people that will make the episodes interesting," said Yen Chu, the show's production co- ordinator.

The series is expected to air in April 2004 on three networks:
Food Network Canada, BBC Canada and in the United Kingdom on the BBC channel UKTV Food.