Metro focused their review on the problems the growers face and consider Kate to be patronising and mention a Blue Peter style of reporting. Though every so often, she took a nibble out of a hard-edged news story – the disease wrecking India’s pepper crops and driving farmers to suicide, the rip-off deals that turn spice workers into virtual slaves – she quickly skipped merrily on, playing the colonial grande dame out to charm the exotic locals. The Express gave a factual account of the show and made it one of their "picks of the day" KATE Humble travels along India’s fascinating Spice Coast to uncover the story of pepper, once known as black gold. References External links Spices Food travelogue television series 2011 in British television BBC television documentaries