Pete Luckett is: THE FOOD HUNTER

June 26, 2001

Pete Luckett, Canada's favorite greengrocer, signed a joint agreement with Food Network US and Food Network Canada this week to host the first 13 half-hour episodes of THE FOOD HUNTER. Set to launch during the summer of 2002, this series will feature Luckett's food adventures as he travels to far-reaching locations in search of exotic produce.

Produced by Ocean Entertainment of Halifax, Nova scotia, THE FOOD HUNTER will take viewers on ardent culinary adventures in 13 exotic corners of the world where the featured fruits or vegetable is plentiful - truffles in France, cloudberries in Finland, mangoes in India, pitahaya in Guatemala.

"We want viewers to explore the origins of the foods they savor and share in the entire sensory experience," says Johanna Eliot, producer. According to Luckett, "Every food encounter is meant to be experienced with an open heart, mind and mouth. In this spirit, we will hunt out and explore the unknown pleasures of many luscious foods". Like the host, THE FOOD HUNTER promises to be adventurous, quirky, and full of "things you never about the food you eat."

A witty, wisecracking Englishmen, Luckett left his Nottingham home and finally came to rest in Atlantic Canada, where he parlayed a tiny market stall stocked with $300 worth of produce into a multi-million dollar retail and wholesale operation. Today, Pete's Frootique is a "shopping experience" an 18,000-square-foot market that is as vibrant and colorful as Pete himself. For his adoring customers and the Canadian television fans he has cultivated for over a decade, Pete has transformed produce from a mere commodity item into the jewel of the shopping basket.

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