Food Lovers' Guide to Australia

The Food Lovers' Guide to Australia is an Australian food and travel television show presented by Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill and produced and broadcast by SBS. In the series, O'Meara and Savill travel across Australia, discovering the country's multicultural culinary delights and showcasing the talents of home cooks and professional chefs. The series first aired on 21 December 1996, and ran for five seasons, with the fifth season premiering on 14 September 2005.[1][2] The series has won numerous awards, including the World Food Media Award for Best Food/Drink TV show in 2005; and a plethora of Australian food broadcasting awards.[3]

Food Lovers' Guide to Australia
Genre	Documentary, food
Created by	SBS TV
Based on	The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide
Presented by	Maeve O'Meara Joanna Savill Tony Tan
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	70
Production
Executive producers	Margaret Murphy Giampaolo Pertosi Toufic Charabati
Producers	Maeve O'Meara Joanna Savill Jacqui Sykes Susan Wallace
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	SBS TV
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original release	21 December 1996 – 14 December 2005
Chronology
Followed by	Food Safari
Related shows	Wine Lovers' Guide to Australia
External links
Website

Series Overview

Series	Timeslot	Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
1	N/A	18		21 December 1996	N/A
2		13		1999	N/A
3	N/A	13		2 August 2002	N/A
4	Wednesday 7:30pm	13		16 June 2004	N/A
5		13		14 September 2005	21 December 2005

References

1. "Title Details: Food Lovers' Guide of Australia. Series 1". NFSA. 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
2. "Rewind". The Age. 15 September 2005. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
3. SBS Annual Report 2005-2006 (PDF). Australia: SBS. 2006. p. 12.

External links

• The Food Lovers Guide To Australia at the National Film and Sound Archive