The Edible Roadshow

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Food connoisseur Carlo Rota hosts The Edible Roadshow – a gastronomic adventure across Canada. In a fun, hip style, Rota explores regional and ethnic influences around various locales. Take in Canada’s breathtaking scenery while learning about Canada’s mouth-watering cuisine. Learn everything from the art of the pig roast in Southwestern Ontario, foraging for porcini mushrooms in the Gatineau Hills, discovering whether Regina is the pizza capital of the world, to catching and preparing Giant Bluefin Tuna in Prince Edward Island.

Season 1

Host Carlo Rota sets out across Canada in search of great food, from hunting porcini mushrooms in the Gatineau Hills and Digby scallops in Nova Scotia to Sooke Harbour House, Vancouver's Chinatown, Quebec City bistros, a heli-hiking barbecue in the Bugaboo Mountains and the Ottawa Food & Wine Festival.

Season 2

Carlo Rota continues his culinary road trip with a Cape Breton crab boil, Rocky Mountain cuisine in Banff, a Viking feast in Newfoundland, a traditional lobster supper, an Aboriginal feast, a brewer's dinner where every dish uses beer, Montreal's famous bagels and a search for the greatest pizza in Regina.

Season 3

Carlo Rota explores Montreal's Greek community, Toronto's Danforth, Niagara wine country, a whole-pig roast with the Swinefellows, P.E.I. shellfish, single malt at Glenora Distillery and diving for New Brunswick scallops.

Season 4

Carlo Rota heads to Newfoundland, a prairie pitchfork fondue, Icelandic cooking in Gimli, an Alberta cattle drive, Pacific seafood with Chef Daryle Nagata, ice fishing, the Niagara ice wine harvest, chocolate in Calgary and a Quebec maple syrup feast.

Season 5

Carlo Rota works the midway at a summer fair, fishes for Atlantic bluefin tuna, meets the Annapolis Apple Queen, picks tomatoes in Leamington, visits a hunting lodge near Churchill, makes buffalo mozzarella, enrols at Le Cordon Bleu and hits the slopes for après-ski.