Gil Formats samples Flavor of Home

Israeli distributor Gil Formats has picked up a food- and travel-themed unscripted show coproduced by Spanish prodcos Prointel and It’s OK and Korea’s Cenmedia.

Assaf Gil

The Flavor of Home follows a celebrity chef as they meet three people living in a country away from their motherland, who share with the chef particular dishes they miss from home.

The chef travels to the individuals’ home countries and learns how to make the local dishes before returning home and recreating the meals for the three people.

Assaf Gil, CEO of Gil Formats, said: “We fell in love with The Flavor Of Home. It’s a clever format that subtly covers three angles – a social one, by highlighting stories of immigrants and their acceptance in a new country; a culinary angle, by exploring authentic and exotic food from around the globe; and an emotional one, by focusing on the longings for home embodied in sensuous memories of specific tastes and flavours.”