Many of us are synonymous with Mercury Lounge at ABC place, and for many of you it is your hang out of choice come Friday evenings. But how many of you have eaten at Seven Seafood and grill right next door?Well, it turns out Kiran Jethwa, head chef at Seven Seafood and Grill just might be Africa’s answer to English TV’s favourite chef -Gordon Ramsey.
Kiran Jethwa, proprietor and head chef at Seven Seafood and grill announced back in August the launching of his cooking series Tales from the Bush Larder to a fun and lively private screening at his restaurant.
The 13 x 24-minute series, which takes viewers on a culinary tour of Kenya, was coproduced by Zuku and Kenya-based Quite Bright Films, and is one of the first original titles Zuku has been involved in. Each episode sees Kiran Jethwa meeting locals, conversing with the locals (often in Swahili) harvesting local ingredients and then making a “bush meal” in the Kenyan wild. Another meal is then prepared in a professional kitchen, also based off of fresh ingredients indigenous to Kenya.
Tales from the Bush larder began airing September 6th on Zuku. Like the methali begins “Kizuri chajiuza…” Anglo-Dutch producer-distributor Off the Fence almost immediately made a five-year distribution deal with pay-TV channel Zuku for the rights to distribute the series worldwide.
The COO of Off The Fence Darrel James called the show “Visually stunning and content rich.” Watch Kiran Jethwa work his culinary skills using authentic Kenyan ingredients such as Nile perch from Lake Turkana, African wild honey and wild fowl, Swahili prawns, Dorobo lamb.
Here is a sample (the series premiere) of what the show will be like:
Catch Tales from the Bush Larder every Thursday on Zuku Africa ch. 100 at 8:30 pm.
http://www.ghafla.co.ke/news/tv/item/4085-africas-gordon-ramsey-gets-worldwide-tv-syndication –for the original article.
