TV host feeds on taste for travel

Masterchef season two winner Kamini Pather is about to take on the world. One bite at a time.

The food blogger and reality TV star is currently shooting her new 10-episode show Girl Eat World, which will see her jetting off on a nine-week, nine-country tour later this month.

The Durban-born foodie, who now lives in Cape Town, has already started filming in Johannesburg, the only local city on her daunting itinerary.

Her international destinations are Bangkok, Tokyo, Sydney, Lima, Philadelphia, Berlin, Milan, Copenhagen and Dubai.

"As a food blogger you share pieces of your life with your readers. These destinations have been chosen so I can meet some of the bloggers whose lives I have devoured over the years," she said.

Pather said Peru is "hot in terms of food trends" and she has always wanted to travel to Berlin because it is currently "at the forefront of the organic food and fresh produce movement".

The show will see her tucking into local delicacies, experiencing what the different cities have to offer and trying to create local dishes.

"In Australia, there are different ideas about what is a traditional Australian dish. But they have the meat pie and there is a mobile meat pie vendor who has been around for years that Colonel Sanders visited. I mean, who knew the KFC guy was real?" she joked.

In Johannesburg she's already eaten her first "smiley" (sheep's head), which she says tastes similar to the fruit bat she recently sampled in the Seychelles.

"They have a similar sweet, dark meat," she said.

On a freezing morning last week, she leapt from the Soweto cooling towers.

"I was absolutely frozen. I was holding a Go Pro camera and when I watched the video it's just hair and screaming," she said.

Pather said the show was likely to be on South African screens by February, but no broadcast details are available yet.