TELEVISION

SATURDAY OCTOBER 24

PACIFIC ISLAND FOOD REVOLUTION (TVNZ 1, 10am). It’s season two for the international cooking show in which teams of two from Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu compete – in a very friendly way – to turn their countries’ traditional foods into prizewinning dishes.

New Zealand-born, Fijian-raised Robert Oliver returns as host of the 12-part island-hopping production, which is part of an initiative funded by the New Zealand and. “The diet was carb-heavy, fish-heavy, veg-heavy. But if you take out the greens and put in processed food and have a sweet drink, then you have a sugar bomb, because the carbs convert to sugar.”