Spanish cuisine is set to whet the appetites of yet more travellers as Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow tours the country with cook Mario Balati for a new cookery programme on American network PBS.

Paltrow will be opening up the delicacies of Spanish cuisine to audiences in the US and the UK, but the vegetarian actress will have to miss out on tasting the famed jamon iberico for herself.

The salty cured ham, made from the black Iberian pig with its unique acorn-based diet, is something Paltrow is disappointed she will miss, but the Oscar-winner is lucky that Spanish cuisine holds a diverse range of charms.

Touring around the country in search of great regional dishes, she and Mario Balati will be able to taste the fresh fish, fruit and vegetables at the heart of many Iberian dishes, with the star’s strict diet taking only eggs, dairy, caffeine and meat other than fish out of her reach.

Audiences will be granted new insights into Spanish cookery by the show, which plans to uncover a range of unknown local delicacies, looking to inform potential visitors of the wealth of must-try dishes beyond the more well-known Tapas and Paella.

With or without jamon iberico, Paltrow will not be the first celebrity to fall in love with Spanish cuisine, after famous names like Stella McCartney, Sadie Frost and Kate Moss have frequented the Trasierra restaurant-lodge in Sierra Morena, founded by Londoner Charlotte Scott.