Dominica is to be included in BBC America’s new adventure cooking competition series, No Kitchen Required.
The series follow three chefs as they are dropped into the most exotic and remote places on earth. There they must work with the locals to hunt, fish and forage for ingredients to create locally-inspired meals that will be judged by the communities.
The chefs are expected to integrate themselves in the communities and are challenged with the task of putting their own spin on the traditional cuisine. They are to be guided by locals who demonstrate the best techniques for catching their protein, including diving for crayfish and crabs, hunting for iguana with a slingshot, using a bow and arrow to hunt turkey and spear fishing for trout and so on.
In the first episode of the series, the chefs are dropped in Dominica. Equipped with only their knives and secret ingredients of choice, they are welcomed by the host of the series Dr. Shini Somara and the Kalinago community.
After a traditional performance by the locals and an exquisite feast, the chefs set out in search for the ingredients for their meals. They must first master spearfishing, track a manicou through the dense jungle, blindly hunt for crustaceans in dangerously murky water and forage for tropical fruits and root vegetables like coconuts and yams.
Then they are expected to combine these ingredients to create a delectable feast for their hosts against driving winds and rain before time runs out.
Other locations included in the series are New Zealand, Belize, Fiji, Chiang Dao – Thailand, Koh Lanta – Thailand, Hawaii, New Mexico, Louisiana and Florida.
No Kitchen Required – Dominica – premieres Tuesday, April 3, 10:00pm ET/PT on BBC America.
A most wonderful opportunity to showcase the Nature Isle- Dominica and an excellent marketing gift for us all!!! I do not know whose initiative is this but I sincerely hope that the Discover Dominioca personnel do have some part to play in this venture.
I wish to suggest that all concerned with the tourism produch here make every attempt to inform the viewing public at least ONE WEEK prior to its showing so that we can see what was accomplished and the possible improvements which may be necessary.
This is certainly one of the better things to happen to DA lately!! Let’s keep working to let the rest of the world know about us!!!
Posing time for kalinago peeps.
thank god dominica is going places .so glad we were choose .please.please people you all must share dominica more on the web ..cause i am.
That’s awesome! I would like to watch but what channel is it? I live in Illinois .
IT CLEARLY SAID BBC AMERICA!!!
bbc america is not a channel. poor you!
stupid question asked stupid answer given. i agree with you.network people network not channel
you learn something new every day,coconuts and yams are vegetables
I read that and wanted to comment but held back as we say DA peeps only criticise. But all things constant Da have a lot of backward folk. moreso the younger generation peeps born after 1965,plus or minus.Their grammer comand of the fundamentals laws of grammer etc is wanting just normal stuff for us born prior to that period.
Lol lol. That made for some good laughter.
It said “root vegetable”. The term is correct.
Awesome! Channel 264 on Direct TV
What hunt for fish that. Give them chef some gel Cochin and Landau Cochin to cook the offer them some cold cemen contest tea for ice tea. Next day menus roast pepsin and salted kayee
congratulations dominica we are moving up going places thats a big step forward cant wait to see that wow!!!!!
Good going
well…..finally they will see true organic food on television. I am happy the world is slowly coming to grips with the natural beauty that i call home. i do have a grievance however; why is it that every time we need to show the real Dominica, we go to the Carib territory? I had my many many summers picking mango and coconut by river and catching little”cacadock” and roasting it on stone… how come they does not show me as original Dominica?I more local than the word local itself…..
stupessss
@ me ———shut up at least they not ashamed of there history. What history can u show dem
cool.. looking forward to seeing this! Hope every dominican on there keeps there local accent. even a few creole and kalinago words in between would be good.
Im excited about this
That’s great publicity for D/ca, Kalinago people again always doing it for our Waitukubuli,our beloved homeland. I hope this one gets front page of the newspaper cause most times only the negative about Kalinago gets the front page. Kudos to all the performers. Prosper Paris I know you worked hard congrats.
Ay ay well me self cannot wait to see that.
Lol. Same here.
Good job, but bbc \usa what the heck is that channel. somebody please help.
i think it’s in the “40s” on Marpin
On SAT – Channel 42 straight/Channel 20 on the box.
Marpin 43
Thanks much but can we have the name of the channel as you arrange your channels on the box as you want them so all “channel 20s” won’t be the same. I would appreciate it.
Looking forward to seeing this on TV.. I have to record this one in my phone as a reminder..
Thats great exposure for DA!!
oooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww sounds so great !!!!
so the kalinagos are gonna dress in the sear there ancestors never wore ( yellow cloth ) and pretend to live in the bush in a traditional comunity and pretend they hunt for food and so on only yo make the KALINAGOS look like they still leave the traditional way or they gonna show how they reeally leave as in go in the shop and leave in proper houses oh doh forget cook on a stove ( i hope they doh run out of gass that day tell petro carib to stock up )
I understand your line of thought; but realise that the threat of us being percieved as a backward community is unreal and inapplicable in this case; as well as being unimportant in the face of the tourism exposure this can potentially generate.
Always gotta have some pessimistic fool looking at the glass half empty. FYI native Americans sat in my college class dressed same way as I. What’s your point?
My grand father still goes in the bush to bring food home..nothing better than freshly caught craw fish and agouti meat..You need to shut the hell up and just keep on moving
I can’t believe 8 people liked that stupid comment.
he’s speaking the truth
ummm u might wanna learn English before u make such a comment for all the world to see. fyi it’s ‘live’ not ‘leave’
Turning them into posers for a day lol LMAO.
we can pose much better than u.Dont let what is going on in the Carib Territory get all you pressure so high.Dont be jealous.thats all you all worth ‘barking, barking”. Stop it.
I am realy trying to get you here. So, the Carib people should still be running about half naked with bows and arrows and hunting for fish in 2012? Are blacks still enslaved by white plantation owners? There’s a word called “history”. I suggest you look it up and stop trying to make smart comments.
they could not invite me
NO !DO YOUR OWNE. DO A SHOW WHERE SOME PEOPLE ARE IN THE BUSHES WITH ONLY A CUTLAS AND MATCHES AND HAVE TO LIVE OFF THE LAND .ROAST EVERY THING BECAUSE FIRE ROASTED FOOD DO NOT NEED SALT IF YOU EAT IT AS SOON AS IT IS COOKED
It’s amazing to note that When good things are going on for d/ca there are only 6 comments but if it was a beff or a politics, or a negative news there would be 144 comments already.
On another note, this is very good exposure for Dominica and the Caribbean.
There was the golden age of greece, then the The Roman time, followed by the medieval period and then the italian rainaissance, follwed by Elizabethan era and then the Golden age of france – ok I’ll stop here for now, just saying that the caribbean time is coming. Trinidad has put us on the map with the pan instrument and recently Anya Ayoungchee’s success on project runway with her caribbean themed clothing lines and Dominica has been doing it big in movies and films. Lets keep up the good work.
well said this is so true
@nel, you hit the nail on head that is true.
WE HAVE HAD GOOD EXPOSURE AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THEM ,BUT WE ARE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES .WE NEED TOM EXPLORE AND EXPLOIT THEM IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR
its true nel… i guess tis is a tradition….
It’s a shame that I won’t be able to watch that in England
I know me too :-(
I’m from England too so I can’t watch it either
hopefully it will be on BBC iplayer (if there’s an American version)
This is interesting and I am happy for us. It is our turn. I hope I get to see this -forage for tropical fruits and root vegetables like coconuts and yams – the usual summer doings – how I miss this.
Is this strange that this has not elicited excitement from hardly anyone ..
THIS A GREAT TOURISM AND P.R OPPORTUNITY .
We have a cuisine which has a mixed history of the original arawak /carib and african traditions .
too bad we ended up with kentucky fry and the rest of the fast food anti GOOD FOOD OF OUR ANCESTORS leading our children to lose the desire for good old pound food roasted and smoked fish and meats etc as well as the delicacies of bread fruit and stew with natural herbs etc .
Well we need to refocus on our traditional eating habits– live healthier and longer and not allow this generation to go down the hill of the 1st world- US etc in getting sick from the poison of fast food that they eat !!!
so true
A piece of smoke meat with dombre fig sancoach and green paw paw o my. Paté coco or a piece of potato pudding for desert even if the dersert was once a week but we replaced it by locale fruits. oh Lovely Dominica I would hate to leave.
Thats what I miss the most …the good Dominican food…Did you have to say Sancoach…man I miss that…soon go get some..
THIS IS SO EASY FOR DOMINICANS. THEY DO TO HANDLE THEMSELVES WELL OUT DOORS. I SAW THAT WHEN I WAS THERE
Sounds great!
Great Coverage for Dominica!!!
Check out the website, there are some nice sneak preview photos of the Kalinago & areas in Dominica (1 – 18)
http://www.bbcamerica.com/no-kitchen-required/photos/get-a-sneak-peek/#194
Ain’t gonna miss that one.
Last yr I saw a simple theme on TV where a military guy was on DA trying to survive.
I recall growing up in DA in the mid to late 70’s with many of my buddies some still on DA others out here in the USA we communicated on the documentary as the guy had a military background.We laughed at the fact that he was some expert in survival.Things we did as passtime.How much we got we don’t even know farless appreciate.
I recall my grand parents out door kitchen just a fire place and a big pot and everything coming frm it was better than any resturant on earth.She had a special soup lamohwee lol!
Let’s all place April 03 on our itinerary for april.
Cheers
PATTerson
While I partially agree with you. Try being put in that same environment if you were unfamiliar! The ex special forces guy and his wife had none of the luxuries you had, so relax. They had to find themselves at the coast from the jungles of the interior…
what are you saying? DA was more natural than when the special forces guy did. we walked to all areas now you guys go camping in USVS give me a freaking break !
you mean somebody actually put a “thumbs down” on this comment marking it as negative? Awahh, something wrong with that person.
wow that’s great for us… i’m still waiting for the chinese and venezuelan t.v programs….
mouth of the south please do not mock ppl.
Does Mouth of the South mean that you are speaking ????