Real Pasifik

Robert and the team of local chefs are going onto an ancient marae to taste the foods eaten there for thousands of years. They hunt for coral worms and spear fish on Aitutaki lagoon.

Well on the way to becoming the world’s first organic nation, Robert and the local chefs are meeting the movers and shakers in cuisine, agriculture and traditional healing.

Robert Oliver is back in his childhood home and diving back into its rich, multicultural cuisine with local chefs. They taste aerial yams grown in an indigenous bush farm, are shown the secrets to unbelievable Kailoma (Fiji/European) desserts.

Based in the largest Polynesian city in the world Auckland, Robert Oliver and his team of chefs go out to meet Maori and Pacific cuisine leaders.

It’s the King of Tonga’s birthday so Robert Oliver and the young chefs are going to prepare royal food with an expert. They harvest the reefs in exquisite Vava’u and learn about health in Nuku alofa’s backyard gardens.

We travel back to some of the exquisite locations and people we visited across the series. Robert Oliver delves deeper into recipes and techniques with food heroes and the local chefs, inspired by their own culture, are getting really creative.