Ainsley's Big Cook Out

Episode 1

Ainsley’s adventure starts in Newfoundland, the most easterly point in the whole Americas. In the dramatic setting of Signal Hill, just outside the capital city of St John’s, Ainsley cooks his first delectable dish; Succulent Seared Scallops With Coriander And Garlic Oil Dressing.

Episode 2

Ainsley Harriott goes across the Great Lakes to the Windy City - Chicago - for his first North American stop in his tasty travelogue of the Americas. On the shore of Lake Michigan, Ainsley conjures up his first treat: Windy City honey grilled fruit with ember roast almonds - a barbecue desert to die for. Next stop is a fantastic delicatessen where Ainsley joins Chicago foodie, Ellen Miller, to shop for ingredients for a very special dish

Episode 3

From the roof of the famous Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Ainsley rustles up bourbon beef and blue cheese wraps before dropping in on the Whistle Stop Café of Fried Green Tomatoes fame. Next stop is Birmingham, Alabama, where the locals are given their first taste of the ubiquitous Birmingham, England, dish - the Balti.

Episode 4

Ainsley Harriott heads to Acapulco, the Mexican resort that claims to have invented the disco Ainsley conjures up delectable chorizo quesadillas - a veritable fiesta of a dish made with chorizo sausage, potato and manchego cheese.

Chocolate is used in both sweet and spicy dishes in Mexico and Ainsley uses it to great effect in a rather remarkable chocolate omelette, cooked over the coals with a petrified waterfall as a stunning backdrop.

Episode 5

Ainsley turns Amazon rain forest explorer as he swings into Brazil. First off is coffee and coconut rice pudding, before a trip up the Rio Negro, where he discovers the huge river fish which end up in his melt-in-the-mouth fish kebabs.

Episode 6