CELEBRITY cook and Mildura local Stefano de Pieri made a return to television screens across Australia last Sunday with his popular series A Gondola on the Murray.

Originally aired in more than 60 countries in the 1990s and inspired by his Italian background, his love of Mildura and the mighty Murray river, A Gondola on the Murray centred on Mr de Pieri's culinary adventures around Sunraysia.

He...