Jonathan retraces Queen of crime Agatha Christie’s footsteps in a journey which inspired her most famous novel - Murder on the Orient Express. This sees him travelling from Bucharest to Istanbul through the Carpathian Mountains to the former royal resort of Sinaia – where he cooks a wild venison dinner if a hunting lodge. In Bucharest Jonathan explores the emerging food scene and cooks with Mircea Dinescu, a poet and political revolutionary turned restaurateur and rustic food enthusiast. In Istanbul Jonathan explores both the traditional and more cutting edge food scene. He meets Istanbul’s ‘spice girl’, the only female shop owner in the historic spice market and he attempts to cook traditional Turkish cuisine with local cookery school owner Selin Rozanes.