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Vital Ingredients – Series 1 (2011) [WebRip (DivX)]People from over 150 nations call New Zealand home. Every year, thousands of migrants and refugees arrive and every year the cultural landscape and the definition of ‘being kiwi’ changes.Vital Ingredients is an exuberant new local series that celebrates this diversity and invites viewers to taste life as a ‘new New Zealander’.The series sees ten different families as they prepare their food for a celebration. The families come from Colombia, Croatia, Sudan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Burma and Kiribati – and the people are as vibrant and varied as the meals they cook.Director Dan Salmon says: “The highlight of making this series was in our families sharing both joyful and heartbreaking stories with us, while at the same time demonstrating how to cook their traditional dishes, not from a cookbook, but as mum taught them.”He goes on to add that each episode, “is an engaging combination of stories for the soul and food for the belly.””It’s the people who give Vital Ingredients its astonishing flavour,” says Producer Tash Christie. “We feel incredibly privileged that they opened up their homes and lives to us with such generous spirit, ” she concludes.Episode 1 – SudanOur first family comes from Sudan.Episode 2 – PalestineMeet the Shiblaq family from Palestine, who are catering for friends with a table of Palestinian favourites.Episode 3 – ColombiaJoin the Salazar family from Colombia as they prepare for their traditional Independence Day celebrations.Episode 4 – NepalJoin the Goley family from Nepal, who are now dairy farming in Gore, as they celebrate Deshain, a Nepalese festival with tikka and jamara and a feast for 40.Episode 5 – CroatiaMeet the Kacurov Family, who moved here from Croatia to share their passion for traditional folk music and dance.Episode 6 – Sri LankaMeet the De Alwis Family from Sri Lanka as they make delicious dishes to share for the Buddhist Wesak.Episode 7 – Papua New GuineaJoin the Kapia Family from Papua New Guinea, as they put down a traditional hot stone Mumu to celebrate the Kumuls verses Kiwis rugby league Four Nations showdown.Episode 8 – AfghanistanThe Ali family from Afghanistan are refugees who settled in Wellington after escaping the Taliban. They cook a birthday afternoon tea of Afghani Mantu dumplings and ferni.Episode 9 – BurmaThe Saijaipadoi family from Burma invite us to share in a baby’s blessing.Episode 10 – KiribatiThe Baua family from Kiribati celebrate Christmas Kiribati-style.Representative StatisticsImage   Width  640 pixels   Height  360 pixelsAudio   Duration  0:28:59   Bit Rate  192kbps   Audio format  MPEG Layer-3Video   frame rate  25 frames/second   Data rate  1662kbps   Video sample size  24 bit   Video compression  DivX