Name: Maximum Foodie
Released: 2025-12-25
Duration: 1799

Maximum Foodie

The region of Emilia Romagna is lush with gentle rolling hills where time honored ingredients like truffles, olives, and vast vineyards can be found. But this region is usually overshadowed by it's more famous neighboring cities, Florence and Venice. To understand the food of this region, Liesel explores the quaint sea-side town of Rimini and the hugely impressive Bologna. It's a tale of discovering local foodie passion that allows Liesel to hunt for truffles and try her hand in making her own gelato, a the world's only Gelato University!

2025-12-25 10:00:17 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 10:29:54 +0000 UTC (29m)

Maximum Foodie

Italy is a vacationer's paradise. The food, the people, the sights and sounds, the history! But are the tourists doing it right when it comes to the trying out authentic food in Rome? Liesel embarks on a mission to explore the street food of the city. With the help of her food journalist buddy, Saverio de Luca, Liesel sifts through pasticceri, food festivals, touristed hotspots, all in an effort to understand real Roman food.

2025-12-25 09:31:06 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 10:00:17 +0000 UTC (29m)

Maximum Foodie

This investigative mission starts off in the sin city atmosphere of the Vegas strip. After a gluttonous stint at a generic buffet, Liesel is inspired to do a road trip to find iconic gems in the state of Nevada. From ghost towns, to monstrous foodie challenges, to hole in the wall dive bars in the middle of nowhere, this trip has it all. Liesel finds the resurgence of Basque cuisine in Northern Nevada, and learns that Reno can do fine dining as well! A trip to Virginia city also reveals that the Silver State has some haunted bars where patrons from the 1800s are rumored to be still imbibing and spooking locals! It's a road trip in every sense of the word!

2025-12-25 09:01:44 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 09:31:06 +0000 UTC (29m)

Maximum Foodie

Liesel pinballs around a city known for its gastronomy, the forgotten hub of British East India trading company, Kolkata. From trying out what the bustling city's vibrant street food scene has to offer, to the lesser known gems, including, venturing into India's only Chinatown and sampling their delicacies. A tale of walking food tours, hole in the wall joints serving up North Eastern dumplings, messy fish markets, and of course, the pride of Bengal, the Hilsa fish. Is Kolkata up to par with the other major metropolitan cities of India? This episode finds out exactly that!

2025-12-25 08:32:30 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 09:01:44 +0000 UTC (29m)

Maximum Foodie

Liesel embarks on a journey to the country of over 7000 islands, the Philippines. From the serene to the seedy, she combs through metro Manila discovering the food this culinary spectrum includes bouncing around trying the popular fast food joints, meeting the local experts such as blogger Cheryl Tiu, a taste of history at the world's oldest Chinatown, an unexpected dancing session at the Spanish haunts of Manila, to rubbing shoulders with the elite Chefs of the city. All in a quest to answer just why Filipino cuisine is unheard of!

2025-12-25 08:02:31 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 08:32:30 +0000 UTC (29m)

Maximum Foodie

Liesel embarks on a journey to the country of over 7000 islands, the Philippines. From the serene to the seedy, she combs through metro Manila discovering the food this culinary spectrum includes bouncing around trying the popular fast food joints, meeting the local experts such as blogger Cheryl Tiu, a taste of history at the world's oldest Chinatown, an unexpected dancing session at the Spanish haunts of Manila, to rubbing shoulders with the elite Chefs of the city. All in a quest to answer just why Filipino cuisine is unheard of!

2025-12-25 07:32:58 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 08:02:31 +0000 UTC (29m)

Travel Quest

There is no place on earth with such diverse cultures has Papua New Guinea. Bill follows the trail of the legendary headhunters deep into the rainforest only to uncover secrets even more mysterious.

2025-12-25 07:02:42 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 07:32:58 +0000 UTC (30m)

Travel Quest

Violent oceans, giant icebergs and incredible scenery are all in a day's work in the Southern Continent. Bill shadows penguin researchers as they take population counts of one of the most fascinating birds on earth.

2025-12-25 06:31:50 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 07:02:42 +0000 UTC (30m)

Travel Quest

Seeing a jaguar in the wild is nearly impossible but working with one of the leading jaguar experts, Bill assists in a prey/predator study to get the best chance. In the process, he comes literally face to face with an 18 foot long Amazon Anaconda.

2025-12-25 06:00:00 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 06:31:50 +0000 UTC (31m)

The Flying Kestrel

The transformation is complete and it's time for The Flying Kestrel to be put to the test.

2025-12-25 05:45:59 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 06:00:00 +0000 UTC (14m)

Bottom Feeders

Rick Johnson returns to fishing alone after spending three weeks with Jedd's crew. Two new faces join Bottom Feeders: commercial fisherman and fish market owner, Jeff and his friend Steve.

2025-12-25 05:17:56 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 05:45:59 +0000 UTC (28m)

Bottom Feeders

A distant natural disaster creates uncertainty for all commercial fishing crews in the upper Midwest. Jedd finds a valuable species in his haul but isn't sure a market exists. Tim races against shifting conditions in hopes of scoring a decent haul.

2025-12-25 04:50:05 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 05:17:56 +0000 UTC (27m)

Bottom Feeders

The desire and competition for catching fish is at an all time high but fishing is anything but fair.

2025-12-25 04:22:24 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 04:50:05 +0000 UTC (27m)

Bottom Feeders

The rough season is starting to wear on commercial fishermen. For some, hard feelings are boiling to the surface and others turn imagination into money.

2025-12-25 03:54:06 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 04:22:24 +0000 UTC (28m)