Preview: CNN International Programme Information Weeks 22 and 23
Inside the Middle East
Chef Ada Turkman enjoys some traditional street food in Istanbul, Turkey
This month, ‘Inside the Middle East’ travels to Istanbul, Turkey for a unique culinary journey through the city’s narrow bazaars and winding backstreets. In Istanbul, food is more than just fuel for the body – it is the medium through which people connect and the best way to experience the rich cultural history of the city where east meets west.
Hosting the programme is Turkish chef Arda Turkmen, who guides viewers around the food stalls of Istanbul’s crowded markets – sampling everything from kababs to pickle juice and barbecued sheep’s head.
Istanbul has more to offer than simple street food though; the city is home to a thriving fine dining scene. Inside the Middle East meets Hande Bozdogan, a prominent Turkish chef who, six years ago, launched the Istanbul Culinary Institute, the city’s first professional cookery school.
Istanbul is home to some of the best preserved Ottoman architecture in the world but it’s the cooking of the era that has been getting the city’s foodies excited lately. Chef Batur Durmay is leading the revival of Turkish Ottoman cuisine with some of the recipes on the menu at his restaurant dating back to the 1500’s.
Inside the Middle East also stops for dessert at Gulluoglu, one of the oldest baklava bakeries in the world, and meets a sixth-generation baker who believes that making baklava is an art.
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Kelly Slater at Quiksilver pro tour, Australia 2013. Credit: Kirstin Scholtz/Getty
From the visually beautiful to the technically awe-inspiring – The Art of Movement is a new monthly programme which highlights the innovations in art, culture, science and technology which are helping to shape the modern world.
In June, the show focuses on the art and science behind catching the perfect wave.
Waves are curves of energy, stirred up by winds in the deep oceans. Knowing how to predict, capture and harness the power of these natural phenomena means studying the motion of water.
While a gifted surfer might make the action of balancing and riding on waves look effortless and elegant, it is a technically difficult sport which demands skill, foresight and the highest level of physical fitness. The Art of Movement meets a surfer who possesses all of these attributes, Kelly Slater. Now 41, the 11 times world champion regularly outperforms contenders near half his age.
The programme also speaks to a man who understands the search for the perfect wave better than most; oceanographer and former European surf champion Professor Paul Russell.
Beyond the professional circuit, surfing is more extreme still. Form some the perfect wave means the biggest wave possible, and the hunt for larger and larger waves can become an obsession. Surfers monitor global weather charts to determine where the next big wave will occur, travelling enormous distances ride these giants. The programme meets Brazilian Maya Gabriela who rode a 45ft wave at Dungeons in South Africa – the largest ever surfed by a woman.
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Shane O’Donoghue (centre) with former pro trainer Butch Harmon (right)
This month’s Living Golf is a US Open preview special. As the competition returns to Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania for the first time in over thirty years, Living Golf host Shane O’Donoghue goes behind the scenes of the historic club.
The programme is given rare access to film a Bible study group on the PGA Tour. There is a significant presence of Christians on the PGA Tour, including Major winners Bubba Watson, Keegan Bradley and Stewart Cink. Living Golf speaks top players and a leading psychologist to explore the role that Faith plays on the Tour.
The show also takes an inside look at an elite family of American coaches, the Harmons. Eugene Claude Harmon was the last-ever club professional to win a major tournament in 1948 and O’Donoghue sits down with the late champion’s son, and former coach to Tiger Woods, Butch Harmon who talks engagingly of his experience coaching the sport’s best and brightest over the past 50 years.
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Anthony Bourdain (left) with chef and author Eric Ripert (right) at market in Lima, Peru
‘Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown’, which launched in April on CNN International, is a new one-hour lifestyle programme which follows world-renowned chef, bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Anthony Bourdain as he visits little-known areas of the globe, celebrating their rich cultural diversity by exploring food and dining rituals.
Known for his curiosity, candour and acerbic wit, Bourdain ignores the well-trod tourist trails and takes viewers to destinations well off the beaten path.
This episode sees Bourdain and his friend, chef and author Eric Ripert, visit the South American state of Peru. Travelling from the hip, modern city of Lima they take a journey through culinary and cultural history exploring the far reaches of the indigenous Andes. Here they search for a rare variety of wild cocoa which is said to be the finest in the world.
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