Malta's cuisine — shaped by centuries of Mediterranean trade and a string of foreign rulers — anchors this half-hour episode of the Australian food documentary Food Safari.

What is Food Safari E25 Maltese about?

Rather than treating Maltese food as a footnote to Italian or North African cooking, the episode gives it its own hour, tracking down the bakeries, delis, and family kitchens where Maltese-Australians have kept their pastries, breads, and slow-cooked stews in circulation. The format is consistent with the rest of the series: a tour of the pantry basics that define the cuisine, a look at where those ingredients are sourced locally, and a walk through several representative dishes prepared start to finish. What comes across is less a single recipe collection than a portrait of a small but distinct food culture surviving intact a long way from home.

About the cast

The episode does not credit a scripted cast; like the rest of the series it is carried by home cooks, bakers, and shopkeepers from the Maltese-Australian community rather than actors, keeping the documentary format grounded in real kitchens.

Context & significance

Food Safari began airing in 2006 and built its reputation on exactly this kind of episode — smaller, less internationally famous cuisines given the same careful, ingredient-first treatment as bigger ones. That choice matters for an audience shaped by its own migration story: it treats a minority diaspora's food as worth a full episode on its own terms, not as a curiosity folded into someone else's cuisine. Malta's position at the crossroads of several larger food cultures makes it an easy cuisine to overlook, which is part of why an episode built entirely around it stands out among the series' broader catalogue of entries.

Watching Food Safari E25 Maltese on Ktime

A Persian-dubbed audio track is available for this episode on K-Time, so it can be followed without subtitles by Farsi-speaking viewers. Streaming it only requires a free K-Time account; the written page here is open to read before signing in.