than 100 million people around the world.

Cable News Network star Mr. Bert Woolf is currently filming on the Island for broadcasts next year.

Mr. Woolf is famous for 10 years of providing entertaining culinary insights into cultures around the Globe.

His shows have an estimated audience of 190 million people in 100 different countries, and prime spots on cable stations in New York and Chicago, to name but two.

He has already spent 10 days on the Island researching the two half-hour shows which will be filmed over the next week.

Filming will take place in a number of locations including Dockyard, Spittal Pond and a number of restaurants. And there will be a wide range of subjects covering history, mystery, fashion and, of course, culinary delights.

There are also some great aerial views of the Island taken by a top camera crew flown in from Montreal.

Mr. Woolf stresses that his shows are not just recipes. He said: "I am fascinated by the anthropology of eating. I really see the history of the world in terms of eating. The entire history of the world is seen through a matrix of food.

"If we take a look at the stuff on the Travel Show now it is all a bit hard for me to say anything except in the context of food.

"I come to Bermuda because you are a food story. The very first description of this Island is a recipe and a shopping list.'' He is referring to the collection of birds for food by the crew of a Spanish ship that landed on the Island centuries ago.

Mr. Woolf also stresses that Christopher Columbus was seeking the New World for spices.

In terms of Bermuda he will be looking into the Bermuda onion and the arrowroot as being of particular interest. But he will be intermingling that with a look at the Masterworks Foundation, Verdmont and Hamilton.

Concentrating on the area where the Bermuda short-clad chef is an expert, Mr.

Woolf will feature eight or nine recipes on the programmes.

He will cook an onion soup, fish cakes, a fish dish, a syllabub, sweet potato pudding and along with Mr. Fred Ming at the Stonington College, he will cook a pork dish.

Then there is the Bermuda Triangle Cookie invented by Mr. Woolf, he said: "There is an unexplained disappearance. We make them and they just keep disappearing! It is a mystery.'' Mr. Woolf said: "I will mention cassava pies and shark hash but I cannot see a lady in Toronto being able to get the ingredients for shark hash.

"I will also be speaking to people who manufacture food for export like Horton's rum cakes, Yeaton Outerbridge and Goslings.'' He said that the one hour of the filming is too short for the material he has been able to research. He said: "I would have a couple of hours left over.'' Bermuda will feature on three shows CNN's What's Cooking, the Public Broadcast Services Bert Woolf's Table and The Travel Channel's Taste For Travel. It will air on the Travel Channel and CNN in February and on PBS in July, next year.

Mr. Woolf has been a star name on CNN for the past 10 years. His shows have been voted the top food shows by the New York Times and Daily Post.

He said: "We are all a lot smarter than most of the major networks give us credit for.

"It is a great job I could be sitting in Bermuda today after being in Tokyo four days ago and China or Thailand before that.'' Mr. Bert Wolf.