Food & Fire with Niklas Ekstedt

Niklas heads down to Texas in search of the roots of American BBQ. What exactly is Texas BBQ and can you put anything on the grill?

Niklas visits his favorite culinary region in the Basque Country. What makes Basque food so unique, and will he succeed in entering one of the world's most exclusive restaurants?

Niklas has arranged a meeting with a Finnish Viking in the culinary melting pot of Istanbul, and discovers that this historic city has as many layers as there are varieties of kebabs.

Peru has one of the world's most interesting food cultures, and on site Niklas gets to bury a meal, grill in mud and taste guinea pigs. He also gets to experience a large scoop of Peruvian curiosity.

Niklas has to toughen up when he visits the neighboring country in the east, Finland. Here he discovers a huge range of fantastic ingredients and gets a newfound love for the locally produced.

Niklas visits the pizza's hometown of Naples, which turns out to have so much more to offer than just pizza, and the question is whether there are any limits to what you can cook in a pizza oven?