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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.”

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