Chasing Flavour, Hot Chicken

Chef and best-selling cookbook author Carla Hall travels the world to pinpoint the origins of ice cream. Across the East Coast, Italy, and Turkey, she gets caught up in an amazing dairy adventure while chasing the source of America's favourite dessert.

S1 E2 • 30m • HDU

Chef Carla Hall goes on an international journey to uncover the start of tacos al pastor. From Los Angeles to Mexico to Turkey, her tantalising taco trip shows how a vertical flame helped cultures collide to create something new.

S1 E3 • 29m • HDU

Chef Carla Hall explores Washington, D.C., Jamaica, and Europe to find the origins of chicken pot pie. Her flaky, crusted quest gets under the lid of a freezer aisle favourite to reveal its surprising history.

From Los Angeles to Virginia to Puerto Rico, Chef Carla Hall goes on a slow, and low trek to dig up the roots of an American summer pastime: barbecue.

S1 E5 • 30m • HDU

Chef Carla Hall gets fired up over the origins of hot chicken. From Nashville to South Carolina to Ghana, her spicy trip takes a surprising turn into revealing the African American erasure in one of the country's fried favourites.

S1 E6 • 28m • HDU

Chef Carla Hall heads out on a soul food adventure from South Carolina to Ghana to New York, where she discovers how the unlikely pairing of shrimp, and grits became a low country favourite.