The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - North Sweden - 07:00 am Monday, March 2 on Food Network

About this Broadcast

North Sweden
Season 1, Episode 5

The bikers sample cuisine in Sweden, home to some of the world's top chefs, and cross the Arctic Circle into Lapland, where they learn about the basic cooking techniques used by the Sami people. They are introduced to the traditional techniques of smoking to cure meat, manufacturing hunting knives, and fishing to stock up for the coming winter. Using some local ingredients, Si and Dave treat their hosts to a berry and almond rice pudding and prepare their own Nordic reindeer and fish dishes

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Did You Know..

Simon King (Presenter)

Born: December 27, 1962 in Nairobi

Best Known For: Filming and presenting nature documentaries.

Early-life: Simon Henry King was born in Nairobi on December 27, 1962 to John and Eve. His father was at the time working for Forces Broadcasting Overseas but he later relocated the family to Bristol and went on to become a TV producer/director at the BBC. Simon's first taste of TV came in 1973 when he was as a child actor in one of his father's wildlife dramas. Three years later, Simon toured the country searching for wildlife with naturalist Mike Kendall for the BBC series Man and Boy.

Career: In 1984, King made his first film, a study of the wildlife surrounding a willow tree. It was broadcast as an edition of BBC series The World About Us. Since then, he has been involved in a number of nature documentaries as a presenter and cameraman, including Springwatch, Autumnwatch, Big Cat Diary, Simon King's Shetland Diaries, Snow Watch, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Life, and Nature.

Quote: 'I've been lucky enough to indulge my hobby and to do so through the medium of TV, film, writing, photography and drawing.'

Trivia: King has written a number of wildlife books.

Dave Myers (Presenter)

Best Known For: Being one half of TV's hell-raisers of haute cuisine.

Early-life: Born in 1967 in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, Dave was the son a foreman at the local paper mill and the family did not have much income. He had a difficult adolescence - losing his hair to alopecia brought on when his mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He worked as a furnace-man in a steelworks while a student, to finance a degree and postgraduate studies in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, where he studied egg tempera and the work of the Old Masters. On graduating, Dave joined the BBC as a make-up artist, specialising in prosthetics.

Career: Having met Si King on the set of a Catherine Cookson adaptation on which they were both working, the pair struck up a friendship and stumbled into the front of the cameras. For BBC Two they have made endless Hairy Bikers series and spin-offs and become bona fide assets for the corporation. Dave even dressed in silver Lycra for an appearance on the cult hit Hole in the Wall. Together with King, he has also penned several cookbooks. His recent TV work with Si King includes The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best, The Hairy Bikers' Cook Off, The Hairy Biker's Bakeation, and The Hairy Bikers: Restoration Road Trip. In September 2013, he became a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing.

Quote: 'Motorbiking isn't about getting from A to B. It's about the journey in between.'

Trivia: He lives on Roa Island, Morecambe Bay.

Francois Gandolfi (Director)

Helen Simpson (Series producer)

Gill Tierney (Executive producer)