Food Safari-Series 4 (2012) |
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General | Extras | ||
Category | Lifestyle | Deleted Scenes-Over 60 minutes | |
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Year Of Production | 2012 | ||
Running Time | 250:00 | ||
RSDL / Flipper |
Dual Layered Dual Disc Set |
Cast & Crew | |
Start Up | Menu | ||
Region Coding | 1,2,3,4,5,6 | Directed By | Toufic Charabati |
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SBS Madman Entertainment |
Starring | Maeve O'Meara |
Case | Amaray-Transparent-Dual | ||
RPI | ? | Music | Carlo Giacco |
Video | Audio | ||
Pan & Scan/Full Frame | None | English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s) | |
Widescreen Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 | ||
16x9 Enhancement |
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Video Format | 576i (PAL) | ||
Original Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 | Miscellaneous | |
Jacket Pictures | No | ||
Subtitles | English for the Hearing Impaired | Smoking | No |
Annoying Product Placement | No | ||
Action In or After Credits | No |
Food Safari is now quite a long running series on SBS, although this season dubbed Food Safari 4 is a return to the original format. Since Food Safari 3 in 2008/09, this Maeve O'Meara hosted show has had a couple of seasons where the focus has been on one cuisine and has included a guest host. First came Italian Food Safari with Maeve and Guy Grossi and then French Food Safari with Maeve and Guillame Brahimi. The concept here returns to the original concept of the host being more the official taster who goes on 'safari' to a different place or cuisine in each episode. She visits professional chefs either in their workplace or their homes, or home cooks in their own kitchens, and watches them prepare a dish and then shares it with them and sometimes their friends and family.
This particular release by Madman Entertainment features the ten episodes of Season 4 (or 6 depending on how you count), which first aired on SBS in 2013.The cuisines covered in this series are Peruvian, Cypriot, Filipino, South African, Lao, Polish, Afghan and Danish along with two episodes where Maeve investigates the mixed multi-cultural cuisines in Darwin & Broome.
Maeve is a good host who obviously has a great interest in different cuisines and cultures. The slightly repetitive nature of her responses to the dishes can grate on occasion. Regardless this is a wonderful show with lots of interesting dishes and big personalities.
The ten episodes are spread over two discs, with six on the first and four on the second plus extras.
Recommended for foodies.
The video quality is very good.
The feature is presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio, 16x9 enhanced which is the original aspect ratio.
The picture was quite clear and sharp, very consistent with the digital television presentation. Shadow detail is very good.
The colour was excellent.
There were no noticeable artefacts.
There are subtitles in English for the hearing impaired which are clear and easy to read in SBS yellow.
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The audio quality is good.
This DVD contains an English Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack encoded at 224 Kb/s.
Dialogue was clear and easy to understand throughout.
The music mostly consists of the theme tune which becomes a little too much over time.
The surround speakers were not used to any great degree but it is not really important for a show such as this.
The subwoofer was not used .
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The extras are 16x9 enhanced.
The menu features music and scenes from the show.
Disc 2
Extra scenes of Maeve and Neville, an aboriginal guest looking for bush food and discussing its properties both from a taste and health perspective.
A compilation of things from various episodes focusing on drinks such as Tea, Coffee & alcoholic drinks from different cultures.
Featurette about Shanghai style dumplings.
Maeve discusses some interesting and useful kitchen implements including whisks, drum sieve & a potato ricer.
Maeve discusses some interesting and useful kitchen implements including woks, steamers & Paella Pans.
Maeve discusses some interesting and useful kitchen implements including ceramics, clay pots and tagines.
Maeve discusses some interesting and useful kitchen implements including mortar & pestle, coconut scraper and cuisine specific tools.
Maeve visits an Italian sausage maker in his shop.
Despite being misspelled on the menu, this extra is a worthwhile interview with spice master Herbie about using and keeping spices.
Herbie discusses his favourite spices and gives tips on what to look for when purchasing.
A compilation featurette of the various sweet things made by different cultures including Indian, Thai, Greek, Italian & Lebanese.
NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.
This is an All Region release.
The video quality is very good.
The audio quality is good.
60 minutes plus of extra scenes make for excellent extras (essentially 2 extra episodes!).
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Review Equipment | |
DVD | SONY BDP-S760 Blu-ray, using HDMI output |
Display | Sharp LC52LE820X Quattron 52" Full HD LED-LCD TV . Calibrated with Ultimate DVD Platinum. This display device is 16x9 capable. This display device has a maximum native resolution of 1080p. |
Audio Decoder | Built into amplifier. Calibrated with Ultimate DVD Platinum. |
Amplification | Marantz SR5005 |
Speakers | Monitor Audio Bronze 2 (Front), Bronze Centre & Bronze FX (Rears) + Sony SAW2500M Subwoofer |