Yesterday I had Miguel Maestre and a three man film crew roaming around in my orchard and vegetable garden filming miguel 'discovering' fruit on the trees, cutting it open and tasting it in front of the camera. This is part of a television series - 13 episodes called Tropical Kitchen. The show has already been bought by the lifestyle channel to screen in australia next year.I must say that I was a bit apprehensive - with two days notice - but we were able to set up filming opps for soursop, star apple and jaboticaba. Miguel was also thrilled with the kaffir limes and the leaves which he said tasted hundred times better than the ones he can buy in Sydney. We missed the actual cooking of the recipe - the boys took the ingregients and ran to film some rainforest shots before it got too dark.
Miguel reminded me of Jamie Oliver - with all the boyish enthusiasm for food and flavours. But he also had very strong charisma and it was great fun watching him perform for the camera. He tried to herd my chickens into the screen shot but they werent cooperating,
For more info about Miguel I found this on the internet
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