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 The Graham Kerr Show - Cooking with Kerr
 Off the Beaten Track
 Radio with Pictures
 Hudson and Halls, Episode Seven (1982)
 A Taste of Christmas
 Love, Speed and Loss

Synopsis

Whanganui-born chef Peter Gordon helmed the Sugar Club in Wellington in the 80s, then moved to the UK in 1989 and started up a series of acclaimed restaurants, including Providores and Tapa Room (opened shortly after this doco was made). Plaudits as a pioneer of ‘fusion’ cooking followed. Here the ‘kai magpie’, takes in everything from paw paw to paua on a homecoming taste trip: raw fish in Rarotonga, Waikato River 'tuna', deer at Wairarapa’s Te Parae, Seresin organic olive oil, Marlborough koura, Stewart Island oysters, and more. Harvest screened on BBC2.

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 Rob McLaughlin

Rob McLaughlin
Director

 Richard Driver

Richard Driver
Producer

 Mark Huljich

Mark Huljich
Production Assistant

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Quotes

Fusion food takes, as it's starting point, the belief that any ingredient, from any part of the world, has the potential to be cooked and eaten. Who is there to say, for example, that we must never use a Malaysian ingredient in a traditional Yorkshire dish? Perhaps the dish will benefit. Perhaps it will change it, but surely if it tastes all the better, or even, if it tastes intriguingly different, then that can be a positive thing. 

– Peter Gordon on fusion food, from his website (2011)

In order to get to a heart of the city it’s good to start at the stomach. 

– Gordon on visiting the Avondale Markets

This is one of those successful creations of fusion cuisine ... I reckon. 

– Gordon on his kumura, rosemary and miso mash

Peeling the skin off an eel is like taking a stocking off a lady ... apparently. 

– Gordon, on cooking smoked tuna (eel)