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Recipes for Long Life from 2023-12-10T12:30

Dan Buettner believes that "when a ritual lasts for hundreds or thousands of years, like prayer before a meal, it serves some purpose". Dan is the best-selling author of and founder of The Blue...

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The food books of 2023 from 2023-12-03T12:30

Over a coffee in community arts space The Place in Newport, south Wales, The Food Programme presenters Sheila Dillon, Leyla Kazim and Dan Saladino choose two books each from the year: one that h...

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Food Under Siege in Gaza from 2023-11-26T12:30

Sheila Dillon looks at what the current conflict in Gaza has done to food supplies in one of the most densely populated places on earth. After Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on I...

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Older Men Learning to Cook from 2023-11-19T12:30

Jimi Famurewa talks to men learning or rediscovering cooking later in life, maybe due to a change of circumstance or loss of a partner, to hear how it's changing their lives.

In the progra...

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Mezcal: A Beginners Guide from 2023-11-12T12:30

Dan Saladino explores the Mexican spirit mezcal and the diverse world of agave spirits.

Contents include:

Gary Nabhan (Agave Spirits book): https://www.garynabhan.com/

Agave R...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023: Second Course from 2023-11-05T18:30

Sheila Dillon presents more winners from the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023, including who was crowned Best Streetfood, Takeaway or Small Eatery and the winner of the Food Innovation Award. We...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023: First Course from 2023-11-03T11:08

Join Sheila Dillon from the International Convention Centre Wales in Newport for the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023.

In this first episode from the ceremony, we hear the winners of award...

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Prescribing Fruit and Veg – A New Model for the NHS? from 2023-10-22T11:30

A pilot public health scheme in south east London is prescribing fresh fruit & veg to people with chronic disease and mental health conditions. Sheila Dillon meets Dr Chi-Chi Ekhator, an NHS...

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Eating Wild Part 2: Inside the Gut Microbiome from 2023-10-15T11:30

Dan Saladino finds out what happened to people who embarked on a wild food adventure, including chef and Arctic explorer Mike Keen and a group of British foragers involved in the Wild Biome Proj...

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Kombucha: A Miracle Drink? from 2023-10-08T11:30

Kombucha has been around for a while but it has not had huge success in this country like it has in the US and Australia.

In this programme, Jaega Wise looks at why that may be as well as ...

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Local food – is it working? from 2023-10-01T11:30

Local food networks thrived during lockdown with more people turning to local producers, farm shops and veg box schemes as supermarket shelves ran dry. But how are they doing now? The Covid pand...

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Abergavenny at 25 from 2023-09-24T11:30

25 years ago two Monmouthshire farmers had a plan. BSE had hit the rural area hard, and they wanted to create a food festival to showcase the area's produce. They set about putting it together i...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards: street food finalists from 2023-09-17T12:00

Judges have been visiting the finalists in this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards. This episode of The Food Programme celebrates the businesses shortlisted for the street food and take-away cat...

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The Food Innovators: Radical Thinkers, Big Ideas. from 2023-09-11T07:44

Dan Saladino judges the The Food Innovation Award part of the BBC Food & Farming Awards. He is searching for big ideas that can change the food system. In this programme he meets the three f...

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Festival Food from 2023-09-03T11:30

As summer draws to a close, Jaega Wise heads to the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) to learn what goes into feeding the thousands of fans gathered for the Green Man festival. Over the past ...

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A Food Museum – can it make us care about food? from 2023-08-27T11:30

If food is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and also a lens through which we can interpret our history and how we live now, then surely it deserves a museum? The UK has only just got its first ...

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Wedding Food from 2023-08-20T12:00

Wedding food is one of the biggest costs on the big day but the sit-down three-course dinner is making way for food trucks and festival-style take-aways. We explore how the pandemic and the cos...

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The Global Food System: Too Big to Fix? from 2023-08-13T11:30

World leaders met in Rome to fix the food system. Dan Saladino reports on what happened at the United Nations summit and looks at some of the big ideas put forward for change.

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Medicinal mushrooms – magically good for our health? from 2023-08-06T11:30

Mushrooms like Chaga, Reishi, Lion’s Mane and Turkey Tail are popping up all over the place at the moment, in supplements, powders, and even coffee. These are the so-called medicinal species of ...

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Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide. from 2023-07-30T11:30

Dan Saladino and psychologist Kimberley Wilson explore the latest science about food, mental health and boosting our brain power.

Featuring Professor Michael A Crawford (Imperial), Profes...

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UPF WTF? from 2023-07-23T11:30

Ultra-Processed Food makes up more than 50% of all calories consumed in the UK - but UPFs are being linked with obesity and disease, and there are calls for tougher regulations. In this programm...

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Smoke, Fire and Flame: Trends v Tradition from 2023-07-16T11:32

The practice of smoking is one of the world’s oldest food preservation methods, but which techniques are catching fire today, while other processes risk being extinguished?

We hear from p...

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Bread, Baking, War and Ukraine from 2023-07-10T09:19

Dan Saladino hears from the bakers in Ukraine supplying fresh bread to the frontline, and journalist Felicity Spector travels across the country to visit the bakeries supplying people in need, t...

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The Wild Venison Project from 2023-07-02T11:30

Eighty six year old Fergie MacDonald remembers shooting Red deer as a nine year old boy. The Second World War was on and food was scarce in his home village in the rugged Moidart peninsula, in ...

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Agritourism: Italian-inspired hospitality in the UK from 2023-06-25T14:14

Italy is famous the world over for its delicious food and beautiful countryside. The two come together in the form of the agriturismo, a type of farm-stay where the food – produced on the farm ...

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Learning to Eat Part 2 – How the French do it from 2023-06-18T11:30

The diets of children in the UK are now mostly made up of ultra-processed food, so can we learn from the French in how they teach children healthy eating habits? Sheila Dillon finds out.

P...

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Learning to Eat Part 1 – Do Kids Need Special Food? from 2023-06-11T11:30

Sheila Dillon explores how food habits are formed in the early years, and how parents and nurseries are coping with a food environment full of unhealthy ultra-processed food.

Presented by ...

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Pavlov to Plant Breeding: Food Prizes that Changed the World. from 2023-06-04T11:30

From Nobel winners to great innovators, Dan Saladino explores the history of prize-winning food ideas that changed the world, including researchers who uncovered the secrets of our stomachs to t...

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The Awards Return from 2023-05-31T12:01

The BBC Food and Farming Awards are back for 2023 and now is the time to get nominating.

This year the judging will be lead by former Masterchef winner, and founder of the Mexican restaur...

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Tech, TikTok and the Future of Food Writing from 2023-05-21T11:30

Leyla Kazim examines the growing influence apps, maps and lists are having on restaurant recommendations, food writing and the way we eat. Leyla sits down for lunch with Michael O’Shea from t...

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Eating Wild from 2023-05-14T11:30

Can you eat like a hunter-gatherer in 21st Century Britain? Dan Saladino meets a group of people doing exactly that to see how their bodies change during the three-month experiment.

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Coronation 2023 – How is Food Bringing us Together? from 2023-05-07T11:30

As people around the country gather to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, Jaega Wise finds out how food is bringing communities together. Jaega joins a community lunch in Kidlington, ...

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Conversations in cafes: all hail the greasy spoon from 2023-04-30T11:30

Traditional cafes, greasy spoon cafes - have been a fixture of our highstreets for at least a century, providing sustenance for those looking for something cheap and cheerful.

But for a lo...

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The Good Friday Food Revolution from 2023-04-23T11:30

Joris Minne, Northern Ireland's most respected food critic, takes Jaega Wise on a culinary expedition to show how the politics of peace have helped revolutionise the local food scene.

He r...

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Weight-loss drugs from 2023-04-16T11:30

Is hacking our biology the only solution left to an unhealthy food system and bad food culture?

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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Secret Supply Lines – Fruit&Veg Under the Radar from 2023-04-09T11:30

Sheila Dillon delves into the world of fresh produce wholesale markets – an unseen part of the food system which has provided a steady supply of fruit and veg to greengrocers, corner shops and r...

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A Pudding Celebration from 2023-04-02T11:30

Are we still a nation of pudding lovers and does pudding still matter?

Join Sheila Dillon in her kitchen where she's joined by some of the UK's best pudding makers to share some of the se...

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Glasgow: Seeking Asylum and Finding Refuge in Food from 2023-03-26T11:30

Leyla Kazim and producer Robbie Armstrong explore the central role of food in building community, shaping identity and providing culturally appropriate spaces for refugees and asylum seekers in ...

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Hospital Food: Agents of Change? from 2023-03-19T12:30

Hospital food has long had a bad reputation, but after several high profile campaigns, are things finally starting to improve?

In England, new regulations are being implemented which are h...

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A Food Rethink: Lessons from a Food Shortage from 2023-03-12T18:24

From energy to seasonality, Dan Saladino explores the big ideas prompted by the recent shortage of fresh produce in supermarkets. Is the now time for a major food rethink?

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Halloumi and hellim: The story of an island and its cheese from 2023-03-05T13:00

Halloumi, or hellim as its known by Turkish Cypriots, is now ubiquitous in our supermarkets, fast food chains and on restaurant menus. We import almost 50 per cent of the cheese produced in Cypr...

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One Armed Chef: The Food Adventures of Giles Duley. from 2023-02-26T12:30

The story of how a photojournalist severely injured in a war zone reinvented himself through cooking. Giles Duley is now using food to transform conflict zones around the world.

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Delia Country: How Delia Smith changed food in Norfolk and Suffolk. from 2023-02-19T13:00

Sheila Dillon is on a trip through 'Delia Country'; Norwich, Norfolk and mid-Suffolk. An area with a rich agricultural past and a vibrant food present, and the place where Delia Smith has lived ...

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Low Energy Cookers: Fad or For Life? from 2023-02-12T12:30

Sales of air fryers, pressure cookers, slow cookers and even microwaves have been increasing over the past year, and it is not hard to understand why. All these gadgets save energy, which has un...

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Pierre Koffmann: A Life Through Food from 2023-02-06T12:10

Born and raised in Gascony but celebrated as a chef for his cooking in London, Pierre Koffmann shares his food story, from summers spent on a farm to the heat of the kitchen.

Produced an...

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Brexit and Food: How is it working out? from 2023-01-29T12:30

Three years after the UK left the EU, and two years after the end of the transition period, Jaega Wise speaks to some UK food producers about if and how Brexit is still affecting their businesse...

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The Wild West of Whisky: From Cask Investments to Dram Scams from 2023-01-22T12:30

Whisky has long been associated with money and wealth, but in recent years prices of rare casks and limited bottlings have soared. A cask of Islay whisky sold for a record-breaking £16 million l...

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Fixing Dan from 2023-01-15T12:30

Like so many of us, Dan Saladino knows he needs to be in better shape, but why do his attempts to make a change keep failing?

There's one important question he needs to resolve, when it c...

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Shellfish: A Very British Image Crisis from 2023-01-08T13:00

When was the last time you tucked into cockle pie? Or stirred clams into a sumptuous pasta or stew?

These bivalves are plentiful all around the UK coastline, tied up with the diets and fo...

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Hangovers: a guide to the morning after from 2023-01-01T12:30

For many, drinking is part of our national identity but the immediate after effects of alcohol, it turns out, are an under investigated part of the experience. This week Jaega Wise looks hangove...

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Food, Philosophy&Football: Christmas with Delia Smith from 2022-12-25T12:55

In food, there are household names. And then, there is Delia Smith.

So synonymous is she with cooking that her first name was included in the Collins English Dictionary in 2001. For four ...

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The Forgotten Foods of Christmas from 2022-12-18T12:30

Dan Saladino and food historian Ivan Day rediscover lost flavours from Christmas past with a feast that features chestnuts from an Italian forest, a cheese from the Yorkshire Dales and a once re...

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The Food Books of 2022 from 2022-12-11T12:30

Sheila Dillon and guests come together at Cherry Tree Library in Blackburn to discuss this year's best food books. From recipes and biographies, to food history and policy - there are choices fo...

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Nutrition's Dark Matter: The New Science of Eating from 2022-12-05T10:10

This year's winner of the Derek Cooper Lifetime Achievement award, scientist Professor Tim Spector explains the latest research into what, how and when we should be eating, from the power of pol...

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Fred Sirieix: A Life Through Food from 2022-11-27T12:30

Fred Sirieix, the French maître d’ joins Jaega Wise to share his ‘Life Through Food’ and passion for hospitality. It’s been a decade since Fred started to appear on television, and he’s best kno...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2022: Second Course from 2022-11-20T13:00

The winners of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2022 are announced at a ceremony at the National Museum Cardiff.

Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Clare Salisbury for BBC Audio in ...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2022: First Course from 2022-11-13T12:30

The winners of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2022 are announced at a ceremony at the National Museum Cardiff.

Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bri...

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Avoiding the Avocado? from 2022-11-06T15:16

There's a growing anxiety around avocados. With more awareness of their impact on the countries where they are grown, some chefs have been reducing their presence on menus. Are worries about the...

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Best Food Producer: Meet the Finalists of 2022 from 2022-10-30T12:30

Sheila Dillon and chef Michael Caines meet the three Best Food Producer finalists of 2022, a community farm in Sussex, a business making cultured butter, and processor of wild Scottish venison.<...

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Wine in a Changing Climate from 2022-10-23T11:32

As rising temperatures supercharge the UK wine industry, Jaega Wise finds out what this means for winegrowing at home and abroad, and the mixed blessing climate change presents.

She finds...

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The Food Innovators from 2022-10-16T11:32

Dan Saladino explore three big ideas that are set to influence the future of food and farming: the reinvention of wheat, supplies of wild meat into hospital kitchens and 'taste education' for ch...

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So You Want to Be a Bartender? from 2022-10-09T12:00

Welcome to the world of cocktails and the people who make them.

As Jaega Wise discovers in this programme, it's a world of extremes. On one hand, in the past decade, bartending has become...

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Cost of Living Crisis: Food Donations from 2022-10-02T11:30

As energy bills rise to their new capped level at the start of October, Leyla Kazim shares some inspiring stories of giving that she has heard while on the road with the BBC Food and Farming Awa...

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Hospital food - a turning point? from 2022-09-25T11:30

The quality of hospital food around the country remains a very mixed picture, despite various initiatives over the last decades. But now there is real optimism around a major Independent Review ...

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Cooperation: the solution to a food crisis? from 2022-09-18T11:32

The co-op that's saving land, a food culture and villages at risk of being abandoned. In Benevento, Italy, Lentamente is also giving former convicts a future through farms and food.

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The Hairy Bikers: Full Throttle Food from 2022-09-11T19:39

Thirty years ago, Dave Myers, a specialist prosthetic make-up artist walked into a pub in Newcastle after scoring a job on a Catherine Cookson TV drama. Beyond the throng of TV crew sipping thei...

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A Very British Restaurant Revolution – Jeremy Lee and the joy of ingredients that sing from 2022-09-04T11:30

Sheila Dillon hears the story of one of the most loved and admired chefs in the business, Jeremy Lee, and celebrates the joy of his simple ingredient-led cooking.

As chef proprietor at Qu...

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Cost of Living Crisis: The Food Factor from 2022-08-30T09:57

The latest calculations from economists point to an inflation rate for average shopping baskets of just under 12 per cent, but as Dan Saladino hears from has been retailers, analysts and superma...

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Feeding the Circus from 2022-08-21T11:59

Meet the chef who ran away with the circus. Ols Halas is one of the longest-serving cast members at much-loved Gifford's Circus. As well as being head chef in Gifford's travelling restaurant 'Ci...

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Fried Chicken: a story of race and identity from 2022-08-14T11:30

Since the American Civil War to the present day, fried chicken has been used to create negative stereotypes of black people. These stereotypes and this history has seeped into today’s consciousn...

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Reformulation – a fix for the obesity crisis? from 2022-08-07T11:30

In the UK poor diet is a worrying public health issue, and we rank one of the worst in Europe for levels of obesity, particularly among children. Reformulating the most unhealthy foods to reduce...

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Protein: power in powder? from 2022-07-31T11:30

Protein supplements have been around for a long time but recently it feels like they made the jump from a niche product for gym enthusiasts to something much more mainstream. We are seeing prote...

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Sandor Katz: Fermentation Journeys from 2022-07-24T11:32

Dan Saladino talks with Sandor Katz about the diversity of fermentation around the world.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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Michael Caines: A Life Through Food from 2022-07-17T11:32

The award winning and inspirational chef tells his food story to Dan Saladino. One of his mentors, Raymond Blanc, explains why Michael is one of the best chefs of his generation.

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Mindful Food and the Art of Attention from 2022-07-10T11:30

In a world where our attention spans are getting shorter, where we are rewarded not for the attention we pay to others but the attention we receive – is it time we re-evaluated the value of atte...

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Bread: Why should we care more about it? from 2022-07-03T11:30

What difference would it make if more people rejected cheap bread made using the Chorleywood Process, and moved to eating 'better' bread, i.e bread with fewer ingredients? In this episode Shei...

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The Food Strategy: Is There One? from 2022-06-27T14:34

Dan Saladino and Sheila Dillon dig deep into the details of the newly published Government Food Strategy.

Produced by Dan Saladino.

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Birmingham’s Food System Revolution from 2022-06-19T11:30

The city of Birmingham is about to launch its own ambitious Food System Strategy. It’s vision is to create a bold, fair, sustainable and prosperous food system and economy, where food choices ar...

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Can we bring food diversity back to the table? from 2022-06-12T11:30

Dan Saladino meets people saving endangered foods and bringing diversity back to our diets.

Groups of scientists, chefs and artists are now finding pioneering ways to rethink the global f...

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The BBC Food and Farming Awards return for 2022 from 2022-06-05T11:30

Sheila Dillon and judges Asma Khan and Michael Caines open nominations for the 2022 BBC Food & Farming Awards, which celebrate people across the UK who've changed lives for the better, throu...

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Falafel: A recipe for connection from 2022-05-29T11:30

Falafels are a widely celebrated and much loved food that have become an everyday part of street food culture in many cities across Europe, the United States and the Middle East. Falafel is know...

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Consider the Axe: Food, farming and the wonders of Stonehenge. from 2022-05-22T10:17

Dan Saladino and blacksmith Alex Pole explain how our food has been influenced by metals.

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Madhur Jaffrey: A Legacy from 2022-05-15T11:30

40 years ago the BBC broadcast a new TV cooking series called "Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking". It was a first, and showed audiences that Indian food did not rely on curry powder, and that dish...

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Staffordshire Oatcakes – a Potteries tradition going strong from 2022-05-08T17:26

In our world of globalised food, there are few things that have remained true local specialities, and the Staffordshire oatcake is one of them. This oatmeal, yeasted pancake is an institution in...

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SPAM: food + war + memory in a can from 2022-05-01T11:30

No other tinned meat has had the worldwide cultural impact of SPAM. Though often denigrated in this country, it is celebrated across the world particularly in the Asia-Pacific where it became in...

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Jack Monroe: A Life Through Food from 2022-04-24T11:30

Jack Monroe, the food writer and poverty campaigner sits down in her living room in Southend-on-Sea to share her 'Life Through Food' with Leyla Kazim. It has been almost a decade since Jack firs...

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An Easter Special from 2022-04-19T11:41

Dan Saladino hears from cooks in Palermo, Marseille and Kyiv about Easter food traditions.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino

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Ukraine: The Food Dimension Part 2 from 2022-04-10T11:30

Dan Saladino speaks to food suppliers and farmers in Ukraine about the impact of war.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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Beans Part 2: How Spain Does Beans from 2022-04-03T11:30

A few months ago, Sheila Dillon opened a glass jar of chickpeas in her kitchen. Their taste was so different from those she had been eating for years from cans, she took to social media to find ...

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Beans Part 1: Are Legumes the Answer? from 2022-03-27T11:30

In the first of two programmes all about beans, Sheila Dillon asks if they could be the answer to our issues with health and global warming.

We're often told how eating less meat is cruci...

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The True Cost of Food from 2022-03-21T10:27

The price of food is rising alongside fuel, energy and other costs, and experts are warning that households face the biggest squeeze on disposable incomes for at least 30 years. On average the l...

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Animal-free dairy: Could this be the future of milk? from 2022-03-13T12:30

Dairy alternatives with real milk proteins but no use of cows are now becoming a reality. In the US you can now buy animal-free dairy ice cream, and around the world scientists and food technolo...

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Ukraine: War in the breadbasket of the world from 2022-03-06T12:30

Dan Saladino looks at the war in Ukraine through the lens of food. Are people already going hungry? And what does conflict mean for the millions dependent on Ukrainian wheat?

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Scotland, a Good Food Nation? from 2022-02-27T13:00

Can Scotland become a nation where people from every walk of life ‘take pride and pleasure in the food they produce, buy, cook, serve, and eat each day’?

Sheila Dillon and her Scottish pr...

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Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World's Rarest Coffee from 2022-02-20T12:30

Dan Saladino meets the plant hunters searching for the world's lost and forgotten coffee varieties and Michael Pollan, author of This is Your Mind on Plants, explains how caffeine helped usher i...

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Ainsley Harriott: A Life Through Food from 2022-02-13T12:30

Ainsley Harriott joins Jaega Wise to share his 'Life Through Food' from his kitchen in South London. Ainsley is one of the UK's most recognisable TV chefs; after training at Westminster College ...

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Eco-labelling for food - what difference could it make? from 2022-02-06T12:30

Jaega Wise explores how environmental-impact labels on food and drink products could help lower the carbon footprint of the food industry. Although there’s been an increase in the number of comp...

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Wassail! Wassail! A celebration of cider, orchards and song from 2022-01-30T12:30

Dan Saladino goes in search of the history, meaning and spirit of wassails and cider. In Somerset he takes part in a village wassail sung door to door and one sung in an orchard.

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Angela Hartnett: A Life Through Food from 2022-01-23T12:30

In this episode Sheila Dillon is joined by a chef, restaurateur, author and campaigner, Angela Hartnett, for another in the programme’s series of Lives told through Food.

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Keto: Diet fad or food fix? from 2022-01-16T12:30

Dan Saladino explores keto to understand the appeal of this low carb way of eating. Featuring Gary Taubes (book) The Case for Keto), GP Dr David Unwin, Anna Tebbs (The Green Chef), Prof. Mike Le...

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Gabriella D'Cruz: Global Youth Champion from 2022-01-09T12:30

Gabriella D’Cruz, from Goa, wants to improve diets, transform livelihoods and protect the planet using an often-overlooked marine vegetable - seaweed.

Ruth Alexander speaks to the 29-year-...

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#FoodTok: Mastering the Art of Cooking in Three Minutes from 2022-01-02T12:30

Jaega Wise and her co-presenters start the New Year having a go on TikTok after #FoodTok raked in billions of views in 2021. What, if anything, can be learned from the app, which dishes up creat...

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The Rise of Ultra-Fast Grocery Delivery from 2021-12-26T12:30

Leyla Kazim dives into the world of rapid grocery delivery, one of the newest trends to hit the world of food retail. In scarcely more than a year, a wave of new companies like Getir, Weezy, Gor...

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A Christmas Feast Special. from 2021-12-19T12:30

Some of the biggest names in the food world join Dan and Sheila with their favourite Christmas dishes, including Claudia Roden, Jeremy Lee and Paula McIntyre. Noble Rot's Dan Keeling selects the...

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The Meaning of Cod from 2021-12-12T12:30

How did cod become such an important fish in so many different and diverse parts of Europe? In search of the past, present and future of cod, Dan Saladino travels to the west coast of Norway an...

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The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021 - Second Course from 2021-12-05T12:30

Sheila Dillon presents more stories of the winners of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021, which celebrates the people across the UK who've changed lives for the better, through food and drink....

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The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021 - First Course from 2021-11-30T13:37

The winners of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021 are announced at a ceremony at London's Broadcasting House.

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Cookbooks of 2021 from 2021-11-21T12:30

What are the books that the presenters of Radio 4's The Food Programme have been relishing this year? You are about to find out.

In this episode, Sheila, Dan, Jaega and Leyla get together...

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Best Shop or Market of the Year: Meet the Finalists from 2021-11-14T12:30

Leyla Kazim visits 2021’s Best Shop or Market finalists in the 20th BBC Food and Farming Awards – a food co-op, rural farm shop and city market which are going the extra mile to support local fo...

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COP26: The Case for Cattle and Pigs. from 2021-11-07T12:30

Less but better? With the COP26 climate summit underway Dan Saladino looks at how meat and dairy can play a positive role for the future of people and planet.

Produced by Dan Saladino.

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Veg Invention: The stories of new kinds of fruit and vegetables from 2021-10-31T12:30

Seed breeders spend whole careers in search of that perfect fruit or vegetable, and some even come up with their own completely new designs. Think Tenderstem, Cotton Candy grapes, or a new type ...

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A Personnel Problem: What's the solution to hospitality's staffing crisis? from 2021-10-24T12:00

The hospitality sector has a problem: it just can't get the staff.

Businesses from bars to hotels are facing a massive worker shortage, as job vacancies in the sector hit their highest lev...

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Follow the Money: Investor power and the Future of Food from 2021-10-17T12:00

Dan Saladino finds out how groups of influential investors are using the trillions of dollars they control to shape the future of food. It's argued that it is their decisions, not those of gove...

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Best Food Producer of the Year: Meet the Finalists from 2021-10-10T12:00

What does it take to bring home the title of Best Food Producer in the Food and Farming Awards 2021? This year, Sheila Dillon and chef Angela Hartnett visit a local nose-to-tail butchery, a c...

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Oz Clarke: A Life Through Wine from 2021-10-03T11:30

Oz Clarke, the popular man of wine, has enjoyed success in wine writing and broadcasting for four decades. First appearing on our screens on BBC2’s Food and Drink in the 1980s, he helped lead a ...

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Prue Leith: A Life Through Food from 2021-09-26T12:00

She might be best known as the colourfully clad host of the Great British Bake Off, but Dame Prue Leith's accomplishments during her six decades in the food industry are vast and varied.

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High Spirits: A story of vodka from 2021-09-19T12:00

Vodka is a spirit with a rich cultural history in a host of European countries including Russia and Poland, where it’s been distilled for centuries.

In the west, it's traditionally been co...

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Buckfast: the Transformation of Scotland’s Most Controversial Drink from 2021-09-12T12:00

Shedding its associations with street crime and violence, Buckfast is now drunk in upmarket cocktail bars, trendy restaurants and hipster haunts. Jaega Wise visits Glasgow to hear about this tra...

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Stirring Up Stories: The Business of Food PR from 2021-09-05T11:30

Leyla Kazim finds out how food companies and restaurants use PR agencies to get us thinking about the meals they want us to buy. From talking teabags to weird breakfast combos, social media has ...

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Tastefully Worded: Exploring food in language from 2021-08-29T12:00

Can you have your cake and eat it? Do you have bigger fish to fry?

Are you seduced by food imagery in literature, and lured into rash purchases by the purple prose of food packaging?

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The Story of the Digestive: From grain to biscuit. from 2021-08-22T11:30

Dan Saladino tells the story of one of Britain's oldest and most popular biscuits, the digestive. He follows the story from a farmers wheat field to a food factory in London.

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Flour to the People. from 2021-08-15T11:30

Dan Saladino finds out how farmers, millers and bakers are reclaiming wheat, flour and bread in Scotland. When flour ran out during the pandemic the project came into its own.

Produced an...

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Andrew Wong: A Life Through Food from 2021-08-08T12:00

“It’s about trying to paint pictures – of different places, different moments in time, throughout China’s past.”

Andrew Wong grew up helping out in his parents’ Chinese restaurant in centr...

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Catering in Care Homes from 2021-08-01T11:30

The Coronavirus pandemic has brought into focus the lives of older and disabled people living in care homes like never before. From the start of the first lockdown, there were fears about food b...

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The Great Food Reset? from 2021-07-25T11:30

Dan Saladino finds out why a UN summit to transform the global food system has become so controversial. It has generated 2500 ideas for change but also a boycott by protesters.

In 2019 ...

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Plate of the Nation: Second Serving from 2021-07-18T11:30

Could we kick-start a major transformation of our food system, in just three years?

That's the ambition of the National Food Strategy, the first independent review of our food policy in ne...

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Drinking Culture: The women calling out sexism in the alcohol industry from 2021-07-11T11:30

Over the past year, women working in different parts of the drinks industry have been sharing their stories and experiences to try to change the way women are treated. Most recently people wor...

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Unpacking the Great British Picnic from 2021-07-04T12:00

In a country where weather is notoriously fickle, how has the picnic become such a beloved institution?

Jaega Wise rolls out a blanket and invites a group of al fresco aficionados to shar...

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Cyrus Todiwala: A Life Through Food from 2021-06-28T12:13

From Mumbai childhood to pioneering London chef, Mr Todiwala's Life Through Food; a story involving the legendary dish Bombay Duck and an important connection with Freddie Mercury.

After y...

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The Medical Field: Why student doctors are getting out on farms from 2021-06-20T12:00

The Food Programme first met Iain Broadley and Ally Jaffee in 2017, when they were studying medicine in Bristol.

The pair saw a disconnect between the rise of diet-related diseases, and t...

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Eat Your Art Out: How Art Makes Us Eat from 2021-06-13T11:30

Eating with our eyes is no new concept, but can visual art itself inspire or alter the way we eat? and can food be used to help more people appreciate art?

Jaega Wise meets artist, curato...

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Tom Kerridge: A Life Through Food from 2021-06-06T11:30

Tom Kerridge is probably best known as the first chef in the UK to be awarded two prestigious Michelin stars for food served in a pub, not even a year after opening 'The Hand and Flowers' in Mar...

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India's Covid Crisis: The Food Story from 2021-05-30T11:30

Dan Saladino looks at covid's impact on food in India and the heroic efforts underway to feed communities.

Lockdowns and job losses have disrupted access to food in this country of 1.4 bi...

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Socially Distanced Dining: Indoor restaurants reopen again from 2021-05-23T11:30

As hospitality businesses in most parts of the UK are allowed to resume serving customers indoors this week, Leyla Kazim heads to Padstow to meet a couple who have moved their restaurant out of ...

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Pure umami: should we learn to love MSG? from 2021-05-16T11:30

Monosodium Glutamate is probably one of the most contentious ingredients in modern food. Increasingly there have been calls to tackle the stigma attached to it especially as this has been linke...

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1971: A year that changed food forever? from 2021-05-09T11:30

Dan Saladino asks if the year 1971 was a turning point for how the world eats?

It was a year of contrasts: McDonalds increased the portion sizes of the beef burger it served with the laun...

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The Joy of Heat from 2021-05-03T09:00

The chilli revolution of the past decade has made the UK a nation of chilli-jam lovers, and windowsill spice-growers. But our desire for the fiery kick of heat-giving food goes back centuries....

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A Nominations Celebration from 2021-04-25T12:00

The BBC Food and Farming Awards are back for their 20th edition, ready to celebrate the people across the UK who are changing lives for the better, through food and drink.

Marking the offi...

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Lab-grown meat: How long before it's on a menu near you? from 2021-04-19T09:16

The first lab-grown beef burger was cooked and eaten in London in 2013. Since then more than 15 types of meat have been re-created by food scientists - including lamb, duck, lobster and even kan...

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The Urban Growing Revolution from 2021-04-11T12:00

Planting and growing food has had a massive boost during the pandemic - and that hasn't been limited to those with gardens.

Right across the country, people have been making the most of ba...

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The Magic of Mussels (And Their Troubled Trade) from 2021-04-04T11:50

Dan Saladino finds out how Brexit could wreck plans to turn the mussel into a mainstream food. They're good for our health and the environment so why are producers facing ruin?

From their ...

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Food, James Bond’s food from 2021-03-28T11:32

We don’t often see James Bond eating in the films, but in the novel food is almost as important as espionage, cocktails, sex, villains and travel. As many await the release of the new Bond film,...

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Food in Lockdown: One Year On from 2021-03-21T12:30

A year after the UK was first put into lockdown, Sheila Dillon catches up with some of those who have been keeping the nation fed. If you listened to news reports, you might have thought getting...

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The Barrel Effect: Why Oak casks have stood the test of time. from 2021-03-14T14:44

Brewer Jaega Wise looks into the history of the oak barrel, and hears how despite their shape, sizes and names having barely changed in hundreds of years, their use for flavouring drinks really ...

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Genome editing and the future of food from 2021-03-07T12:30

Dan Saladino looks at the future role of genome editing in food and farming. A public consultation is underway on technologies such as CRISPR. What could it mean for farmers and consumers?

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School Food: Re-imagined from 2021-02-28T13:00

What is the current school meal model, how well is it working and how has the pandemic highlighted existing problems and created new ones?

More importantly, given the very public problems ...

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Everything Stops For Tea. from 2021-02-21T12:58

The past 12 months have been tumultuous for us all. But imagine, for one second, how it would have been without a cup of tea?

In the first three months of lockdown, we spent an additional...

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Charles Campion: A Life Through Food. from 2021-02-14T12:55

The writer Charles Campion, who passed away recently, was an obsessive collector of food stories. With the help of Jay Rayner, Cyrus Todiwala, Nigel Barden, Mark Hix and Angela Hartnett, Dan Sal...

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Cooking Blind from 2021-02-07T12:50

Amar Latif, entrepreneur and presenter, became the first blind contestant on BBC One's Celebrity MasterChef in 2019. During the series he inspired viewers, sighted, blind and partially sighted, ...

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Flavours of Home: The refugees forging new lives through food from 2021-01-31T13:00

COVID-19 may have pushed it from the front pages, but the refugee crisis rages on around the world, fed by war, famine and political persecution; and that’s before you even factor in a global pa...

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All at Sea? Fishing after Brexit from 2021-01-24T12:30

Dan Saladino finds out what the Brexit deal means for the fishing industry. Some exports and logistics companies have seen problems along the supply chain into Europe. Is this just a glitch or a...

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What to Eat to Save the Planet? from 2021-01-17T13:00

As scientific evidence grows showing an urgent need for us to reduce the environmental impact of food we eat, Sheila Dillon looks for practical ways we can change our diets. From increasing UK i...

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BrewDog: Punks grown up? from 2021-01-10T13:15

BrewDog to a lot of people are almost synonymous with 'craft beer.' They are everywhere from supermarkets to off licences and have their own chain of bars across the country and abroad. They als...

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Inside the World Food Programme from 2021-01-04T10:46

Dan Saladino tells the inside story of Nobel Peace Prize winners the World Food Programme.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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Loving the Leftovers from 2020-12-27T13:00

Christmas is over, everyone’s eaten too much – and yet, there’s still a mountain of leftover goodies, from the turkey to the cheese board, from the veggies to the fruit cake.

So how can w...

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Christmas Cooking: The 2020 Edit from 2020-12-20T13:00

Christmas will be different this year, but it doesn't mean it should be any less delicious.

Sheila Dillon is joined by cooks who know about cooking for Christmas. She pays food writer Nige...

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The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 2: The future. from 2020-12-13T13:00

Sheila Dillon is joined by baker and chocolatier Selasi Gbormittah and chocoholic comedian Sue Perkins to celebrate the present and future of the British chocolate bar.

They look to a new...

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The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 1: Origins from 2020-12-06T12:32

Dan Saladino explores the origins of cacao, from the bean's journey from central America to Europe and the rise of the chocolate bar.

The first of a two part chocolate special of The Food ...

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Cookbooks of 2020 from 2020-11-29T13:00

Whether it's a recipe book full of mouthwatering meals, a deep dive into the science of what we eat or a collection of must-try cocktails, books about food and drink have the power to educate, e...

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What’s the deal with "chlorinated chicken"? from 2020-11-22T13:00

What do we mean by chlorinated chicken? Why is it such a bad thing? What exactly are the UK standards that we’re so keen to promote and protect? To what extent can shoppers afford to prioritise...

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Raymond Blanc: The Lost Orchard from 2020-11-15T12:32

Raymond Blanc has spent decades growing an orchard at Le Manoir. An orchard Raymond has planted with 2500 rare trees from in the hope of saving lost and endangered varieties. He explains to Dan ...

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University Challenge: How students and universities are managing meals during the pandemic from 2020-11-08T13:00

Universities have become big business in the UK in recent decades - educating around 2.3 million students, with an annual operating expenditure of over £37 billion at the last count.

But s...

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Nadiya Hussain: A Life Through Food from 2020-11-01T13:00

It's been five years since Nadiya Hussain left the Great British Bake Off tent victorious, inspiring and instilling confidence in wannabe bakers across the UK. In that time, Nadiya has presented...

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Eat Your Way to Power: Food and Politics on the Campaign Trail from 2020-10-25T12:32

Food can tell us a lot about our politicians, at least that seems to be what we think. We love to see them eat and we obsess about what goes in their mouths. It can be a high-wire act. Do it rig...

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Faith, Fasts and Feasts: The role of food in Jewish celebration from 2020-10-18T12:00

This year’s autumn run of Jewish holy days has been like no other; but even with coronavirus-related restrictions in place, food and community has remained at the heart of celebrations for Rosh ...

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English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food. from 2020-10-11T12:39

Dan Saladino visits shepherd and writer James Rebanks whose farm in Cumbria spans three generations. What does can that history teach us about where food and farming go next?

In his latest...

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Taking the Biscuit: How a long-life ration became the quintessential British comfort food from 2020-10-04T12:00

Biscuits aren’t just a classic accompaniment to a cuppa: they’re also somehow an edible comforter - very often providing a link to childhood, to family, to happy memories. And of course, giving ...

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Wheat Revolutions from 2020-09-27T11:00

Dan Saladino tells the story of wheat from the domestication of wild grasses in the Neolithic Revolution through to the controversial Green Revolution of the 20th century.

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Kitchen obsessives: Why aim to cook the perfect dish? from 2020-09-20T11:59

March 2020. Supermarket shelves were bare, restaurants and takeaways were closed, schools and workplaces closed. Perhaps it's no surprise then that all around the world, people started getting c...

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The Ice Cream Van: A Celebration. from 2020-09-13T11:30

Dan Saladino and his dad Bobo (a former ice-cream man) talk Mr Whippy, 99s and Screwballs. Together Dan and Bobo (who also used to work in restaurants) have explored the wonders of pizza, and lo...

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A different kind of S.W.A.T team: Food in Lockdown from 2020-09-07T16:11

In 2019, Romy Gill met Randeep Singh, CEO of NishkamSWAT (Sikh Welfare & Awareness Team). 10 years previous, Randeep and his colleagues had a moment of realisation. More than 200 people in t...

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Sitopia - a land with food at its centre from 2020-08-30T11:30

Prime Minister Carolyn Steel joins Sheila Dillon for this special edition of The Food Programme from the year 2030. Sheila discusses the prime minister’s rise to power after Britain saw food sho...

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Plate of the Nation from 2020-08-23T12:00

This year has already been a big one for food-related events and announcements - from the impact of Covid-19 and panic buying stripping supermarket shelves, to high-profile campaigns around scho...

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Food and the legacy of slavery from 2020-08-16T11:30

Jaega Wise and Dan Saladino investigate the hidden story of slavery in our food. Between the 17th century and into the 19th, twelve million enslaved Africans were transported to the Caribbean a...

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How Consumers Saved Our Cheese from 2020-08-09T12:00

Many UK cheese makers depend on supplying restaurants and hospitality. They faced ruin when lockdown struck but were saved by consumers buying tonnes of cheese in just a few weeks.

In this...

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Return of the Restaurant? from 2020-08-02T12:00

Slowly but surely, restaurants are emerging from the coronavirus lockdown, introducing us to a new world of dining out, with added hygiene and distancing measures.

But some outlets aren’t...

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Julian Metcalfe: A Life Through Food from 2020-07-26T12:00

Slowly, the hospitality industry is easing itself out of lockdown: but the sector has been hard hit - particularly those high-street outlets seen in towns and cities across the country, offering...

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Food and Mood: how eating affects your mental health from 2020-07-19T11:30

One silver lining of lockdown is that it has brought talk of mental health, particularly depression, into the general conversation. And what is becoming increasingly evident is the role that foo...

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Child Food Poverty: What next after the Government's U-turn on Free School Meals? from 2020-07-12T12:00

Last month, footballer Marcus Rashford wrote an open letter to MPs calling for them to continue funding free schools meals during the summer holidays. He called for support to a petition started...

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Is it harder to make it in the food industry if you’re black? from 2020-07-05T11:20

The Black Farmer thinks we’re at another #MeToo moment in world history following the death of George Floyd and the protests and discussions about racism it has sparked. For presenter Jaega Wise...

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Rethink: The Food Dimension. from 2020-06-28T11:30

As part of the BBC's Rethink series Dan Saladino asks how we can create a better food future for all in a post-Covid world. Among a cast of experts and activists offering their visions of the fu...

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Why The Corner Shop Has Come Into Its Own from 2020-06-21T12:00

Remember March? Before the UK lockdown. Remember desolate supermarket shelves? Toilet rolls, eggs, flour nowhere to be found?

Where did you turn? Chances are you may have hit the jackpot ...

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Seed Stories from the Lockdown from 2020-06-14T11:32

Dan Saladino meets some of the people who turned to seeds and grew food in the lockdown. As well as supermarket panic buying, seed sellers also saw huge spikes in sales. Seed producer David Pric...

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How food on film is the secret ingredient to storytelling from 2020-06-07T11:20

Leyla Kazim meets Bend it like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha, OBE to hear how she uses food to bring her films to life and hears from Nathalie Morris of the British Film Institute about how b...

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Why Eat Wild Meat? from 2020-05-31T11:30

Dan Saladino looks at the legal and illegal global trade in wild meat. After links have been made between the Covid-19 pandemic and wild animal populations, there have been calls for a complete...

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Last Orders: Does coronavirus spell boom or bust for Britain’s drinks sector? from 2020-05-24T11:59

Alcoholic drinks are not just big business in Britain - they are an essentially social business.

Whether it's hitting your local with colleagues after work, raising a reception toast to ne...

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Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food, through lockdown from 2020-05-17T11:50

When Joe Wicks, the personal trainer, started making Instagram videos in his kitchen in 2014, he couldn't have imagined he'd become author of the second biggest selling UK cookbook of all time. ...

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The Kitchen Front: How wartime food strategies influenced our eating ethos from 2020-05-10T11:32

Making do, digging for victory, the hedgerow harvest, the garden front: food and farming was front and centre during the Second World War, with hearty phrases like these encouraging the populati...

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Sheffield: A story of a city through its food from 2020-05-03T12:00

Leyla Kazim finds the independent spirit of Sheffield’s self-employed ‘little mesters’, who once combined to power the city’s steel industry, is now being channelled into new models for how food...

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Bonus Podcast: More from Sheffield's Pete McKee and Richard Hawley from 2020-05-03T11:59

Hear an extended version of the interview with artist Pete McKee and musician Richard Hawley from the programme Sheffield: A Story of a City Through It's Food. Picture: Meat 'N' Tater by Pete M...

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Covid-19: The Food Waste Dimension. from 2020-04-26T11:30

Dan Saladino investigates how the coronavirus crisis has not only resulted in vast amounts of food being wasted but also saved and redirected to feed people in need.

The global food system...

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Love In The Time Of Corona: Stories of community support through food from 2020-04-19T12:00

Every day, with the UK on 'lock-down' as part of government measures to halt the spread of Covid-19, we're hearing inspirational tales of community groups and volunteer services springing up to ...

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Takeaway transformed: Inside the food delivery revolution from 2020-04-12T11:30

Stepping into a 'dark kitchen', Sheila Dillon explores why takeaway apps are changing food culture and explores how delivery is offering a lifeline under lockdown and diversifying to help people...

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05/04/2020 from 2020-04-05T11:30

In a special programme - recorded online from self-isolation - Sheila Dillon explores the new art of cooking in lockdown.

As we all get used to spending more time at home, what better opp...

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Eating After Cancer: Can rebuilding relationships with food help cancer patients with their recovery? from 2020-03-29T12:00

One of the unexpected side-effects of dealing with cancer can be how it impacts relationships with food and eating.

The various treatments can take away both appetite, and the ability to e...

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Coronavirus and Food: Your Questions Answered from 2020-03-22T13:00

As the government updates its plans for coronavirus, Dan Saladino answers your food questions.

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Covid-19: The Food Dimension. from 2020-03-15T12:30

Dan Saladino tracks the origins and impact of coronavirus within the global food supply chain. Where are pressures being felt and who's making decisions about feeding Britain? The spead of Covid...

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Is the Pasty Really Cornish? from 2020-03-08T13:00

In the week that Cornish people celebrated their Patron Saint St Piran, Dr Polly Russell & Sheila Dillon ask why the pasty remains an emblem of Cornishness for people around the world.

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Lights, Camera, Reaction: Life after Great British Bake Off with David Atherton from 2020-03-01T12:30

What's it like becoming a celebrity overnight? Bake Off Winner David Atherton talks fame, food and post-GBBO freak outs with presenter Leyla Kazim and shares stories and gets some advice from Ma...

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A Tale of Two Fish: Salmon, the wild and farmed from 2020-02-23T12:30

Dan Saladino investigates the possible extinction of wild Atlantic salmon within 20 years. Dan travels from the River Spey on Scotland's east coast to fish farms in the west in order to plot the...

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What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 2: The Debate and Your Questions. from 2020-02-16T13:00

When Professor Dame Sally Davies left her role as Chief Medical Officer for England in Autumn 2019, she didn't go quietly. Instead, she published a strongly titled, independent, 96 page report '...

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What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 1: Finding Solutions to the UK’s Child Obesity Issue from 2020-02-09T12:30

When Professor Dame Sally Davies left her role as Chief Medical Officer for England in Autumn 2019, she didn't go quietly. Instead, she published a strongly titled, independent, 96 page report w...

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Mary Berry: A Life Through Food from 2020-02-02T13:00

Sheila Dillon speaks to a veteran of the British food scene; a writer and television presenter who has made cooking – in particular baking – accessible, and achievable, for millions: Mary Berry....

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The Physicist In the Kitchen from 2020-01-26T12:30

Can a grounding in science help us become better cooks?

Dan Saladino speaks with chefs Heston Blumenthal, Raymond Blanc, food writers Harold McGee and Niki Segnit to find out what a littl...

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Yes We Can: What do the tins we eat say about the UK? from 2020-01-19T12:30

Baked beans, tinned pies, corned beef, creamed tomato soup, plum tomatoes, ackee, pineapple chunks and condensed milk.

Our store cupboards are bursting with tins of food, they provide comf...

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Pints of progress: The brewers changing attitudes to learning disabilities from 2020-01-12T12:30

Brewer and broadcaster Jaega Wise visits breweries where a progressive approach to employing people with learning disabilities is pouring away preconceptions. Helping tell the story is Michaela ...

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Could eating microalgae be the next big thing? from 2020-01-05T12:30

Sheila Dillon enters the murky green and bright blue world of microalgae and cynobacteria to meet the people who believe humble pond scum could be the secret to securing food for the world's gro...

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Is The Dinner Party Dead? from 2019-12-29T12:30

Cast your mind back to the days when as a child you’d be pushed into the backroom with the TV on a Saturday night whilst your parents ‘entertained friends’ in the dining room. Three courses, nib...

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Michel Roux Jr: A Life Through Food from 2019-12-22T12:30

Sheila Dillon visits London restaurant Le Gavroche, to speak to renowned chef Michel Roux Jr about food, family and festive inspiration.

Michel Jr is the second generation of the Roux fami...

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The Sugar Plum Shift: Exploring the ballet world’s changing approach to food, nutrition and body image from 2019-12-15T12:30

Sparkling lights, twinkly music, frothy tutus and perfectly pirouetting dancers: what could be more magical – and festive – than ballet?

This is an art-form that’s been revered over genera...

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Cookbooks of 2019 from 2019-12-08T13:00

Pinch of Nom, Charred and East are among the titles up for discussion as Sheila Dillon and guests gather in Hay-on-Wye to review 2019's best cookbooks. Featuring Cerys Matthews, Lia Moutselou an...

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Eating Animals Part 2: A Meat Q&A. from 2019-12-01T12:30

Dan Saladino, Sheila Dillon and a range of experts ranging from climate scientists to beef producers answer your questions on meat eating and the future of farming and our diets.

Featuring...

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Eating Animals Part 1: The Future of Meat from 2019-11-24T12:30

Dan Saladino finds out why tensions are running so high over animal vs plant based diets.

In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that to keep the r...

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The Food Programme at 40: Looking Forward (Part II) from 2019-11-17T13:00

Andi Oliver, Rick Stein and Yotam Ottolenghi join Sheila Dillon at the BBC Radio Theatre to celebrate 40 years of The Food Programme and ask what changes the next four decades might bring to the...

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The Food Programme at 40: Looking Back (Part I) from 2019-11-10T12:30

Andi Oliver, Rick Stein and Yotam Ottolenghi join Sheila Dillon at the BBC Radio Theatre to celebrate 40 years of The Food Programme and ask what changes the next four decades might bring to the...

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Smoke and Celebration: Exploring Bonfire Night food traditions from 2019-11-03T13:00

Autumn is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – when the air is perfumed with bonfire smoke, sweet crisp apples are weighing down orchard branches, and root vegetables are plump and read...

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Brexit: The Tomato's Story. What can one food tell us about the future? from 2019-10-27T19:16

Dan Saladino uses the story the tomato to examine the impact of the new Brexit on food.

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Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem? from 2019-10-20T12:00

As many UK schools break for half term, chef Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon focus on our national problem with holiday hunger.

Earlier this year, a UN special rapporteur found poverty in the ...

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Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food from 2019-10-13T11:30

When Joe Wicks, the personal trainer, started making Instagram videos in his kitchen in 2014, he couldn't have imagined he'd become author of the second biggest selling UK cookbook of all time. ...

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The Return of Zing: How to Get Sour Back into Your Life. from 2019-10-06T11:30

Dan Saladino explores the taste and temptations of sourness, from our evolution to the way we cook and eat. A story of puckering pickles, science, fermentation and edible ants.

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Food Additives, Part 2: The Debate from 2019-09-29T11:30

In the second part of The Food Programme's focus on additives, Sheila Dillon takes a closer look the myths and realities around these extra ingredients and their roles in our everyday diets - th...

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Food Additives, Part 1: Sherbet and other E number experiments from 2019-09-22T11:30

From Vitamin C and fruit-flavoured sherbet, to the chemicals adding flavour to ultra-processed foods - Sheila Dillon delves into the world of food additives, to learn about the impact E Numbers ...

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Island to Island: The journey of Mauritian cuisine from 2019-09-15T11:30

Mauritius recently celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence from the UK – and since that day in the 1960s, tens of thousands of islanders have made the UK their home; bringing with them a...

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Ice Cream Nation from 2019-09-08T11:30

We might like the occasional 99 in the rain in the UK, but not for us the piled high gelato cones of Italy, the tubs of sweet American sundaes, nor the eiscafes of Germany and Austria. Right? Listen

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Taste the Music and Dance from 2019-09-01T11:30

Dan Saladino reports from the Taste The World stage of the world music festival Womad.

In 2006 a director of the festival Annie Menter had the idea of asking musicians if they could tell ...

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Jamie Oliver: A Life Through Food Part II from 2019-08-25T12:00

On the anniversary of TV series 'The Naked Chef', Jamie Oliver talks to Sheila Dillon about two controversial decades dominating food on our TV screens and online, our home cooking, and dining o...

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Jamie Oliver: A Life Through Food Part I from 2019-08-18T12:00

On the anniversary of TV series 'The Naked Chef', Jamie Oliver talks to Sheila Dillon about two controversial decades dominating food on our TV screens and online, our home cooking, and dining o...

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Why did the chicken cross the road? How food became more than a comedy punchline from 2019-08-11T11:30

Food has been larking about in comedy since Charlie Chaplin first slipped on a banana skin and made bread rolls dance: but somewhere along the way, it's evolved from the slapstick sidekick to a ...

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The Search for Esiah's Seeds from 2019-08-04T11:30

Dan Saladino tells the story Esiah Levy who shared seeds and changed lives.

It all started with a squash. Soon after he started to grow his own food he cut open a particularly delicious v...

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The BarbeQ'n'A from 2019-07-28T12:00

Rain or shine, the British barbecue is a summer tradition: and we want to help your al fresco feasts go with a bang!

Sheila Dillon calls on Genevieve Taylor - a food writer, food stylist a...

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Good Enough for Granny: What's so special about the food our grandmothers cook? from 2019-07-21T11:30

We asked you to tell us stories of meals you remember your grandmothers making. Now Sheila Dillon asks why these dishes - whether delicious or otherwise - stick with us into adulthood. Food writ...

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Is There A Perfect Diet Just For You? The Future of Personalised Nutrition from 2019-07-14T11:30

Dan Saladino takes part in a gruelling nutrition study to work out what to eat. Founded by Professor Tim Spector "Predict" is one of the biggest food and diet studies ever devised.

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Playing with Food: The world of video game gastronomy from 2019-07-07T12:00

Dan Saladino embarks on an epic quest into a world of food-filled computer games, to find out how and why foraging, cooking and eating have become such important components of the genre.

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Can Anyone Learn To Cook? - A Life Through Food with Samin Nosrat from 2019-06-30T12:00

Netflix chef and author of 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat', Samin Nosrat says anyone can learn to cook delicious food. Samin shares a life of food memories with Sheila Dillon.

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Baking in the Nordics: The Bread Adventures of Chef Magnus Nilsson from 2019-06-23T11:30

Magnus Nilsson takes Dan Saladino on a Nordic baking tour.

For a nearly a decade Magnus, who is one of the world's most celebrated chefs, travelled through the region (which includes Swed...

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The BBC Food&Farming Awards 2019: Second Course from 2019-06-16T12:00

The winners of the BBC Food & Farming Awards 19 are revealed at a ceremony in Bristol. In part two, Jamie Oliver reveals the winner of the inaugral Pat Llewellyn New Talent award.

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The Food&Farming Awards 2019: First Course from 2019-06-16T11:55

The winners of the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019 are revealed at a glittering ceremony in Bristol.

In the first course of the 2019 awards story, Sheila Dillon is joined by food indust...

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Ten Good Things from 2019-06-10T11:30

With days to go before we learn who the winners are of the 2019 BBC Food & Farming Awards Dan Saladino looks at the remaining food and drink ideas on this year's shortlist.

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Faith, Fasting and Feasting – A Ramadan Special from 2019-06-02T11:50

As Ramadan 2019 draws to a close, many British Muslim reach the culmination of a month of fasting during daylight hours. But that doesn't mean that food is forgotten. On the contrary... In thi...

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An Education: Life lessons through food from 2019-05-26T11:30

Genevieve Taylor sets out to meet a few of this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards finalists, and hear how learning about food has changed their lives for the better.

The first stop is Lib...

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Stranded! How to eat on a desert island. from 2019-05-19T12:30

Dan Saladino arrives on a beach for a Robinson Crusoe experience. Will he be able to survive on wild food? Chef Gill Meller and foragers John Wright and Monica Wilde lend their expertise.

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What makes an excellent food producer? from 2019-05-12T12:00

What does it take to produce delicious food of the highest quality in the UK in 2019?

This year, it was the turn of chef, food writer, BBC TV presenter, and this year's head judge in the ...

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Feeding the High Street: Are food shops the answer? from 2019-05-05T12:00

At a time when shops are closing across the country, we visit three food retail businesses that are bucking the trend. Levenshulme Market in Greater Manchester, A Small Good Thing in Bolton and ...

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How reassuring are food assurance labels? from 2019-04-28T11:30

Food assurance labels come in all sorts of forms, appearing on all sorts of ingredients available from shops across the UK. Their logos promise certified standards in a range of production attri...

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Top Banana: The Future of the World's Most Popular Fruit from 2019-04-21T12:00

Dan Saladino meets the scientists working on the future of a truly global food, the banana.

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How to Start a Food Revolution: The Food Adventures of Claus Meyer from 2019-04-15T12:14

Can you reinvent a food culture? Dan Saladino meets a man who did, Denmark's Claus Meyer, the co-founder of Noma, one of the world's most influential restaurants. From there he went to Bolivia a...

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Tipping Point: Time to Rethink the Service Charge? from 2019-04-08T17:32

Should you leave a cash tip or is card just as good, do you prefer a service charge or would you get rid of tipping altogether?

Sheila Dillon finds out when she meets the co-founder of Ha...

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Life of Pie from 2019-03-31T11:30

One September Ella Risbridger tried to kill herself. She survived and left the hospital thinking about making a pie. When she got home, her partner persuaded her to make the pie, and it set Ella...

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Would you let a robot cook you dinner? from 2019-03-24T12:30

Robots are building burgers, stretching dough in pizzerias and cooking up a media storm. Soon, they could deliver our groceries, invent recipes using machine learning and cook in our homes with ...

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Delicious and Endangered: The Story of Bluefin Tuna from 2019-03-17T12:30

Dan Saladino travels from Brixham to Tokyo in search of Bluefin tuna.

In recent months there have been more sightings of the endangered fish in British waters but does that mean we can e...

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A different kind of S.W.A.T team from 2019-03-10T12:30

10 years ago, Randeep Singh and his colleagues had a moment of realisation. More than 200 people in their immediate local community were living without a home. They were hidden from normal life,...

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Why is CBD on everyone's lips? from 2019-03-04T12:30

CBD Gummies, CBD croissants, CBD coffee, CBD pesto, CBD beer... CBD is everywhere.

Presenter Charlotte Smith tells the story of how this oil from cannabis that doesn’t get you high is beco...

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The Secret Life of Spaghetti from 2019-02-25T11:16

Dan Saladino looks at our long and tangled relationship with spaghetti. Both carbs and meat are under scrutiny and Mintel, which monitors consumer behaviour around the world, says we're eating l...

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Should I boycott palm oil? from 2019-02-17T12:30

You will have heard of palm oil... but do you really know why? Possibly the things that come to mind are orangutans, deforestation. Perhaps you know that most of it is grown in Malaysia and Indo...

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Curry house crisis... where are the women? from 2019-02-10T12:30

The British Asian restaurant sector says it's suffering the consequence of major staff shortages. Many high street takeaways and curry houses are facing closure. While restaurants search for a s...

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Who are the new generation shaking up the food system? from 2019-02-03T12:30

Who are the new voices pushing for change in the food system? Sheila Dillon hears from Alice Thompson of Social Bite, a charity that distributes over 100,000 hot drinks and meals to Scotland’s m...

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What does a no-deal Brexit mean for our food? from 2019-01-27T12:30

With just over 60 days before we're set to leave the EU Dan Saladino gathers thoughts along the food supply chain, from farmers and retailers to exporters and so called "preppers", on the prospe...

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The one where we talk about deep fried Mars Bars from 2019-01-20T12:30

Deep frying our food is a fast efficient way of cooking and it's not new.The ancient Greeks staged comedies involving frying pans. The Romans fried fish in copious amounts of oil. But these days...

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Feeding the Falklands from 2019-01-13T12:30

Would you buy a pineapple for £15? The Falkland Islands provides much of the squid we eat in Europe. And they can produce more lamb and beef than they could possibly eat. But some food - like fr...

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Dog's Dinner from 2019-01-07T15:59

Premium pet food has become big business. In the past year, loving dog owners in the UK spent 379 million pounds on posh nosh for their pooches. What's more, more and more of us are seeking out...

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Weak, small and free: How no and low alcohol is finding power without strength from 2018-12-30T12:30

As people cut down and cut out booze, no and low alcohol drinks are pouring onto the market. Brewer Jaega wise explores this show against strength that's shaking up alcohol sector. Jane Peyton f...

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Nigella Lawson: A Life Through Food from 2018-12-25T11:00

"I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater." So writes Nigella Lawson in the preface to her first book 'How To Eat', published 20 years ago. ...

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The Changing World of Chocolate from 2018-12-16T12:30

Presenter Charlotte Smith puts down her beloved Kit Kat to discover a world of rich, bitter and often rather pricey chocolate as she explores how small producers and big manufacturers are adapti...

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Sweet Chestnuts from 2018-12-09T12:30

Rachel Roddy and Sheila Dillon share their love of Sweet Chestnuts and find out how they're for so much more than just roasting over an open fire. Like a lot of people Rachel's first memories o...

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Cookbooks of 2018 from 2018-12-02T12:30

Sheila Dillon is joined by cook and food-writer Chetna Makan, Tom Tivnan from The Bookseller’—the book industry’s bible, and Kate Young who won the Guild of Food Writers Blogger of the Year awar...

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The Food and Medicine Debate from 2018-11-25T12:30

Food as part of a prescription for health and wellbeing. What has gone wrong with our diets in the UK and how are doctors and experts trying to redress the balance to get us well again. Sheila ...

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The Big Carb Debate from 2018-11-18T12:30

The Food Programme invites a panel of four to discuss the merits of a low versus high carbohydrate diet. Following up on the issues raised in discussing the government's dietary advice in the ...

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Cambodia's Forgotten Food from 2018-11-12T15:22

Food writer, chef and presenter Genevieve Taylor tells the story of how Cambodia’s cooking history was almost lost in the genocide that saw millions die in the mid-1970s. While food from its nei...

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How Instagram changed food from 2018-11-06T14:05

How Instagram changed food - with journalist George Reynolds and Anissa Helou, the author of Feast. Plus @pleesecakes reveals the secrets to 147k followers in just 18 months; @felicityspector ...

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May Contain Nuts from 2018-10-28T13:05

Following the recent high-profile cases involving food allergy deaths, Bee Wilson investigates whether labelling needs to go further to protect allergy sufferers. Bee asks if the growing number ...

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A Vintage Year for Homegrown Wine from 2018-10-21T11:30

After the summer heatwave, Master of Wine Susie Barrie meets winemakers bringing in what could be a watershed harvest for homegrown wine. On a tour of the south of England she visits Peter Hall ...

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The C Word from 2018-10-14T11:30

Foxwhelp, cat's head, sheep's nose, hen's turd, yellow willy .... did you know there are over 200 varieties of cider apple? Jaega Wise of Wild Card brewery knows her beer and hops, but not so mu...

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How to Feed a Fresher from 2018-10-07T11:30

It’s fresher’s week, and all over the country students are settling in to their new digs, frantically buying kettles, figuring out the microwave settings and stocking up on beans. Or are they? Listen

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The Meat-Free Meat Movement from 2018-10-01T07:53

Meat-free meat is having a moment. As more and more people move to a plant-based diet the range of steaks, burgers, hams - almost any meat product you can think of is available without the meat....

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Stories for a harvest moon from 2018-09-25T09:41

Stories of harvest from around the UK to celebrate the autumn equinox and the passing of the summer.

Presented by Andi Oliver Produced by Siobhan Maguire and Clare Salisbury

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Rowley Leigh: A Life Through Food from 2018-09-16T11:30

Rowley Leigh, to many the "godfather" of modern British cooking tells his story to Dan Saladino. Along the way he cooks the perfect omelette and shares the secrets of great pasta.

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The carnivore's guide to meat and fire from 2018-09-11T09:13

Meat, drink, fire and bands - every year top chefs gather in London for a hearty celebration that has become a carnivore's delight. Tim Hayward arrived fork in hand to see if there is any substa...

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Label This! from 2018-09-02T11:30

Sheila Dillon investigates the world of food and drink labelling; what has to go on, what doesn't, how we got here - and where things might be going.

A complex legislative framework has bu...

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Seeds: a 400-million-year-old food story from 2018-08-26T12:00

Dan Saladino and food historian Polly Russell share stories of seeds as told at this year's Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. From the link between amaranth and cannibalism to edible acorns....

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There's More to Mangoes from 2018-08-19T11:30

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of varieties of mango. Some creamy and sweet, some a bit hot, some like pineapple and some that are just a bit bland. Unfortunately it's the latter that are ...

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Shetland - A Food Homecoming from 2018-08-12T12:00

Sheila Dillon visits Shetland to meet the people transforming Shetland's food culture by reinventing traditional dishes as well as creating new food initiatives. Social media is playing a huge p...

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Keep It Sticky: The Extraordinary Story of Chef Marcus Samuelsson. from 2018-08-05T11:30

Harlem based chef Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia, adopted in Sweden and made his reputation in New York City. He tells Dan Saladino his extraordinary story through food. The third of The...

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Music and Food: Sounds Delicious! from 2018-07-29T11:30

Dan Saladino explores the relationship between tunes and taste with Andi Oliver on the link between Sam Cooke and roast chicken and chef Stephen Harris on food and The Buzzcocks.

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Richard Corrigan: A Life Through Food from 2018-07-22T11:30

Richard Corrigan's is a story of Ireland, the story of a turning point in British food culture and the story of a deep connection to the land and its produce. But most of all it is the story of ...

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Birmingham's Beloved Balti from 2018-07-15T12:00

For food writer Yasmin Khan, the Balti conjures up family meals out in her childhood home of Birmingham where she would regularly tuck into deep bowls of the city's most iconic dish -- richly sp...

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Cycling and Food: Fuelling the Peloton from 2018-07-08T11:28

To celebrate the start of the Tour de France, cycling presenter and former racer Rebecca Charlton takes you behind the scenes at one of the world's biggest bike events to find the race is on in ...

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Unedited: Sheila Dillon's interview with Prof. Louis Levy of Public Health England from 2018-07-03T09:14

This week's programme about the Eatwell Guide featured an interview with Prof. Louis Levy from Public Health England. This is the unedited version of his interview with Sheila Dillon.

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The Eatwell Guide from 2018-07-02T14:30

Sheila Dillon questions whether the government's Eatwell Plate that's issued to the medical profession and used as public guidance for a balanced diet could actually be harming us. An increasing...

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What's Eating The Restaurant Trade? from 2018-06-24T11:30

Grace Dent, restaurant critic and broadcaster asks what's going wrong in the restaurant trade. With hundreds of small and large food outlets closing their doors, some say the restaurant business...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2018: Second Course from 2018-06-19T16:27

Sheila Dillon presents the people and the stories behind this year's Food and Farming Awards. Hear the winner of this year's Derek Cooper Outstanding Achievement Award, join Adam Henson and Char...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2018: First Course from 2018-06-19T16:16

Andi Oliver, Alex James and Matt Tebbutt join Sheila Dillon for a night once dubbed 'the Oscars of the food world'; the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2018. The night that the country's best loved ...

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Street Food 2018 from 2018-06-11T15:49

As part of the BBC Food and Farming Awards Nigel Barden and Tom Parker Bowles met an amazing array of street food vendors. In this programme Nigel tells the finalist's stories and visits KERB ma...

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The Mothership of Brewing: Beer and the Belgians from 2018-06-03T11:30

Dan Saladino and drinks writer Pete Brown find out why Belgium beer is so influential.

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Life-changing Food from 2018-06-01T12:17

From prisons to research chefs, Sheila Dillon and chef Romy Gill hear how food is used around the country to transform lives.

As judges on the 2018 BBC Food & Farming Awards, Romy Gil...

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Food Stories From Syria (3) from 2018-05-20T12:00

Europe's migrant crisis is far from over. Already in 2018, the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) estimate that more than 24, 475 people have arrived in Europe by sea. 609 people are dead or missing si...

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Japanese Whisky: A Beginners Guide from 2018-05-14T14:30

Dan Saladino goes on a journey through the history, culture and flavours of Japanese whisky. Why and how has this nation taken a drink so strongly associated with Scotland and made it their own?...

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The BBC Food&Farming Awards 2018: Finalist stories from 2018-04-30T12:13

You know their names, now Sheila Dillon helps tell the stories of the finalists in the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2018. For the last month, our judges, including Tim Hayward, Andi Oliver, Tom P...

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Is There a Place for Salt? from 2018-04-22T12:00

Salt has long been prized, but in recent years it has become, for many, something to be avoided: to reduce or even eliminate. At the same time, there are new salt making businesses popping up al...

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Northern Ireland: Food at a Crossroads from 2018-04-15T11:30

Sheila Dillon travels from the border to Belfast to learn why Northern Irish food has blossomed in recent years and what leaving the EU could mean for producers.

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The Sugar Tax: A (Short) History from 2018-04-15T11:30

Dan Saladino looks behind the headlines of the newly introduced sugar tax.

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The Power of Food: Parabere Forum from 2018-04-01T11:30

Dan Saladino reports from Parabere Forum, with five life changing food stories. At the annual gathering for women working in food Dan finds unexpected and inspirational stories.

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Doctor's Orders: Getting Tomorrow's Medics Cooking from 2018-03-25T12:00

The NHS is at crisis point. Despite the diet books, the fitness videos, the health bloggers, in 2016, Public Health England estimated that Illness associated with lifestyle costs the NHS £11 bil...

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The Future of Bread from 2018-03-19T16:15

Dan Saladino talks to Modernist Bread author, Nathan Myhrvold, about one of the biggest bread research projects ever undertaken, which involved the baking of 36,000 loaves. Nathan Myhrvold has sp...

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African Food from 2018-03-11T13:00

It's a matter of course that in January, food writers, critics and chefs try to predict the food trends of the year ahead. And if you trawled the columns in 2018, no doubt you would have found 'Afr...

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Eat to Run, Part 3 from 2018-03-09T16:18

Dan Saladino meets the runners convinced low or no carbs is the way to peak performance.

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The Big Pig Roadtrip from 2018-03-04T13:00

Tim Hayward embarks on the big pig road trip to meet some of the people who devote their lives to rare breeds of British pigs. He speaks to Adam Henson, best-known as a presenter on BBC One's Count...

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Comfort food for dark days from 2018-02-18T12:30

Sheila Dillon celebrates the power of food to comfort us in hard times, especially during these dark days of the year. Dumplings, marshmallows, chicken soup, fried chicken, curried goat: all the th...

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The Vegetable Yoda: Charlie Hicks from 2018-02-11T12:32

Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino pay tribute to greengrocer extraordinaire, the late, great and encyclopaedic Charlie Hicks with help from Jamie Oliver, Gregg Wallace and Raymond Blanc. Many radio ...

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The World Service Cookbook from 2018-02-04T13:00

When the BBC World Service's Language Services moved into New Broadcasting House in central London, different services would take it in turns to host a 'Meet-Your-Neighbour' event to introduce them...

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Britain's Secret Saffron Story from 2018-01-28T13:00

Saffron is one of the world's most evocative spices, shrouded in myth and mystery and conjuring up images from the ancient Silk Road. Often seen as 'expensive', 'complicated' or perhaps for a speci...

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What Delicious Future? from 2018-01-21T12:30

Dan Saladino looks at ideas that could make an impact on our food future featuring America's Impossible Burger, a Sardinian maggot infested cheese and mussels being grown in downtown Copenhagen. ...

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The BBC Food&Farming Awards 2018: The Search Begins... from 2018-01-14T13:00

Where are the cooks changing the lives of their communities? Which food shops or markets make shopping a more unique experience? Who is making the UK a more delicious place through food and drink? ...

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Porridge from 2018-01-07T12:30

The sudden proliferation of porridge is there for all to see, across the country. Café chains like Pret, Starbucks, McDonalds; instant tubs on offer in your local supermarket; on the train, even. S...

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The Champagne Underground from 2017-12-31T12:30

Champagne sceptic Dan Saladino travels to the French region in search of the mavericks of fizz. These wine producers are part of a movement that's causing many to re-evaluate the world's most celeb...

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Sheila Dillon's Christmas Dinner from 2017-12-24T12:30

Sheila Dillon invites some special guests, friends old and new, to come and share a festive meal. Before they start to arrive, Nigel Slater drops by to help Sheila prepare. Each visitor will bring...

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The World's Most Popular Cheese: The Story of Cheddar from 2017-12-18T11:00

Dan Saladino reports on the past, present and future of what's thought to be the world's most widely produced and consumed cheese, Cheddar. Dan also meets producers who are trying to discover what ...

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Crisps from 2017-12-10T12:30

We have a national passion for crisps. Every week, on average, each person in Britain eats 4 bags of crisps - a staggering 240 million bags a week. This is a good moment to look more closely at cri...

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Cookbooks of 2017 from 2017-12-03T13:00

It's that time of year when Sheila Dillon and special guests take a close look at the food, cookery and drink books of 2017. Joining Sheila are the food writer Bee Wilson, and the Features Editor ...

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Food on the Edge (A Food Story Mix-Tape) from 2017-11-27T15:30

Dan Saladino is at Food On The Edge, a gathering of people with food stories to tell; from a Black Panther breakfast to a chef convinced her emotions could be detected in her food. Held in Galway,...

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Young and Vegan from 2017-11-19T12:57

The number of young people turning vegan is rising. Grace Dent meets some of the people opening vegan eateries and finds out how creatives are using social media to further the "vegangelical" cause...

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Catalonia from 2017-11-13T15:30

With Catalonia in the midst of a political crisis, Sheila Dillon travels to the region just as they self-declared independence and discovers how the spirit of the region and its people are very muc...

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The Art of Fermentation - A Masterclass from 2017-11-04T13:00

Dan Saladino gets a practical masterclass with the world-renowned teacher and author of 'The Art of Fermentation' - Sandor Ellix Katz. Presenter: Dan SaladinoProducer: Rich Ward.

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More Problems with Poultry? from 2017-10-30T13:03

Following years of reporting on UK chicken scandals, Dan Saladino looks at investigations now underway by The Food Standards Agency and MPs into practices at supplier 2 Sisters.

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How We Eat: 4. Eating as a Family from 2017-10-23T14:30

In this final programme of the series How We Eat, Sheila Dillon explores eating as a family, the reality and the myth. As working hours increase and with both parents working, it becomes more and m...

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How We Eat: 3. Eating By The Rules from 2017-10-16T15:31

Increasing numbers of people in Britain seem to eat according to very clearly defined rules, from fashionable Clean Eaters to religious believers to professional sportspeople. In this third program...

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How We Eat: 2. Eating with Strangers from 2017-10-09T14:30

What happens when you share a meal with strangers? What chemistry fizzes around the table, what bonds are formed, what happens next? In this programme Sheila Dillon talks to people who believe that...

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How We Eat: 1. Eating Alone from 2017-10-02T15:18

How we eat says so much about us. Where we come from, our family background, our feelings about our bodies even - our appetite for all kinds of pleasure... There was a time when how we eat was most...

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The BBC Food&Farming Awards 2017 from 2017-09-26T16:33

Sheila Dillon presents the highlights of this year's awards with Giorgio Locatelli

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Future Food from 2017-09-18T15:18

Seaweed, hydroponics and seeds. Dan Saladino meets the 'Future Food' finalists in the 2017 BBC Food and Farming Awards, and asks what their stories tell us about the future of what, and how, we all...

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Zero Compromise: A (Georgian) Natural Wine Story. from 2017-09-11T15:05

Dan Saladino travels into the Caucasus in search of "zero compromise" natural wine makers. He finds them in Georgia, thought to be the birthplace of wine, and home of the qvevri.

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Feast Like a Georgian: A Food Guide to the Caucasus. from 2017-09-03T12:00

Dan Saladino travels to a Georgia, considered to be an undiscovered food and drink gem at the heart of the meeting point between Europe and Asia. Food writer Carla Capalbo, author of Tasting Geor...

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Salt Fish from 2017-08-27T12:00

Once a cheap dish to feed workers, salted cod has been preserved by cooks around the world who serve it to celebrate: On Sundays, at Carnival, at Christmas. It's an ingredient which has played a pa...

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Chef Stress from 2017-08-21T14:30

Dan Saladino investigates current pressures on chefs and the darker side of the restaurant kitchen. From breakdowns to addictions, is it a profession with more problems than most? Dan hears from a...

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Dishing The Dirt on Clean Eating from 2017-08-13T12:00

Grace Dent discovers what has made Anthony Warner into the Angry Chef and unpicks the role that social media plays in spurring people towards diet plans and 'healthy-eating' regimes Anthony set up...

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Patience Gray: A Life Through Food from 2017-08-06T11:55

"Poverty rather than wealth gives the good things of life their true significance. Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared - with a flask of wine - between working p...

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Summer camping special from 2017-07-30T11:32

Sheila Dillon and The Food Programme team go camping, to discover the possibilities of food and drink in the outdoors. Joining Sheila around a Monmouthshire campfire are BBC 6Music presenter Cerys...

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Greece: Return to the land? from 2017-07-23T12:00

This week, Sheila Dillon is in Greece to speak to farmers and food producers about how they are carving new lives for themselves out of the financial crisis. Greeks have now lived through seven y...

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Sandor Katz and the Art of Fermentation from 2017-07-16T11:30

Sandor Katz has been enchanted by fermentation, the mysterious process by which microbes transform food and drink, for some two decades. Since making his first crock of sauerkraut, his fascination ...

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Hunting With The Hadza 2: The Microbiome. from 2017-07-12T13:19

Dan Saladino asks if hunter gatherers, the Hadza tribe, hold the key to our future health. Presented and produced by Dan Saladino.

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Hunting with the Hadza from 2017-07-02T12:00

Dan Saladino eats with one of the last remaining hunter gatherer tribes, Tanzania's Hadza.

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Diet and Dementia: An Update from 2017-06-25T12:00

What can I do? That was the question posed to us by Food Programme listener Angie Roberts who cares for her mother Clara. Clara, like 850 thousand others in the UK, has dementia, and meal times wer...

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Alastair Little: A Life through Food from 2017-06-18T12:00

As he prepares to move to Australia, leaving a lasting culinary legacy here in the UK, chef and food writer Alastair Little shares his life in food with Sheila Dillon. Born in Lancashire, from a v...

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Women&Beer from 2017-06-11T12:00

Think beer. Think boys with beards? Think again. The last time Sheila Dillon reported on the women in British beer, in 2013, she met Sara Barton head brewer at Brewster's brewery in Lincolnshire. A...

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Cult Fiction and Food from 2017-06-05T16:42

From Confederacy of Dunces to Absolute Beginners and On The Road, Dan Saladino explores cult novels to find out how writers Jack Kerouac, Colin MacInnes and John Kenney Toole used food. Authors ha...

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Turmeric from 2017-05-28T12:00

Sheila Dillon takes a journey into the culinary use, history and the latest medical findings about turmeric. Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a member of the ginger family of plants - and its rhizome, ...

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Mac 'n' Cheese from 2017-05-21T12:00

Sheila Dillon charts the rise of the humble mac'n'cheese: a dish that crosses culture and classes and has established itself as a popular comfort food across the world. We discover the history of ...

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The Chef Who Vanished - The Story of Jeremiah Tower from 2017-05-15T15:27

At the age of 30, with no formal training, Jeremiah Tower became a chef. His approach to cooking changed the food world for good, then he walked away. Dan Saladino tells the story of the man who ma...

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The Herbal World of Jekka McVicar from 2017-05-08T11:34

Culinary herb grower Jekka McVicar shares her life through food with Sheila Dillon. Taking a walk through the small herb farm where Jekka grows some 600 varieties of herb (300 of them culinary), Sh...

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Out Like a Lamb from 2017-04-30T12:02

Lamb. Long a staple of the UK dinner table. But one glance at the statistics and it's obvious that 'Generation Y' aren't inspired. Estimates suggest under 30s are buying just 15g of lamb a week. Th...

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The Potato from 2017-04-23T12:00

Sheila Dillon digs up the remarkable story of how potatoes changed the world, offer a whole spectrum of flavour, and might shape our food future. With Sheila are cook and food writer Anna Jones, C...

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Food Stories from Venezuela Part 2: Maria Fernanda Di Giacobbe from 2017-04-18T10:16

Dan Saladino meets a woman who believes Venezuela's escape from crisis rests on chocolate. Maria Fernanda Di Giacobbe is on a mission to reclaim her country's former cacao bean glory.

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Food Stories from Venezuela: Eating in a Failed State. from 2017-04-10T16:55

Venezuela is seeing its worst economic crisis in living memory. As some of the most basic ingredients become unavailable or unaffordable Dan Saladino tells the food story.

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Blood from 2017-04-04T16:37

Blood in food is about as divisive as it comes. But Tim Hayward loves it. A rare steak, a carefully crisped slice of black pudding, a blood meringue...? In this programme Tim meets butchers, cooks...

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Chef Dan Barber: The Third Plate from 2017-03-26T12:00

Dan Saladino profiles the influential US chef and writer Dan Barber, author of 'The Third Plate - Field Notes on the Future of Food'. Originally with plans to become a novelist, Dan Barber opened h...

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BBC Food&Farming Awards 2017: The Finalists from 2017-03-20T10:41

You've cast your nominations in the thousands. Now it's time to reveal who's in the running in the BBC Food&Farming Awards 2017. Judges including Giorgio Locatelli, Joanna Blythman, Allegra McEvedy...

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Tea: A Coffee Drinker's Guide, Part 2 from 2017-03-13T15:30

Do we pay enough for tea? Dan Saladino - a long-term and deeply committed coffee drinker - continues his look at our love affair with the leaf. Dan catches up with the BBC's South Asia Corresponde...

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Tea: A Coffee Drinker's Guide from 2017-03-06T15:30

Hardened coffee drinker Dan Saladino investigates tea's past, present and future and finds out how our preference for the leaf has changed over three centuries. He visits the location of Britain's ...

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Thailand: A Royal Food Legacy from 2017-02-26T13:05

Historian Dr Polly Russell and chef Ashley Palmer-Watts visit farming communities in the Northern Chang Mai province of Thailand who have given up farming opium in favour of Western vegetables and ...

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Let's Do Lunch from 2017-02-19T13:00

What did you eat for lunch today? Whatever you ate, according to our recent national survey you took less than half an hour to do it. Twenty five minutes twenty four to be precise. We're living in...

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Citrus from 2017-02-12T13:00

Sheila Dillon goes on a citrus journey, discovering vivid flavour possibilities and hidden histories. Joining Sheila are Catherine Phipps, food writer and creator of a new book 'Citrus - Recipes t...

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Gumbo from 2017-02-06T11:43

What can one single dish can tell you about America's history? One particular bowl of soup gives us an insight about the future of cultures that convene around it. Gumbo is eaten by nearly everyone...

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Leah Chase: The cook who changed America from 2017-01-30T16:00

Meet 94 four year old Leah Chase. For seventy years she has led the kitchen at New Orleans famous Dooky Chase restaurant. During her time she's hosted US Presidents, and civil rights activists, an...

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Lancashire: My Food Roots from 2017-01-26T16:32

Sheila Dillon returns to her food roots in Lancashire, meeting people doing and creating extraordinary things - from food producers, to cooks to campaigners. As nominations come in for the 2017 BBC...

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Introducing... The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2017 from 2017-01-15T13:00

The BBC Food&Farming Awards are back. Based on public nominations, the awards celebrate the unsung heroes of UK food and farming; From school cooks to chip shops, from cider makers to supermarkets,...

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Belfast: Creating a New Food Tradition from 2017-01-08T13:01

In this series of four programmes broadcast over Christmas and the New Year, Sheila Dillon explores the link between tradition and food. Sheila ends the series by exploring the creation of a new ...

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Loch Fyne: Celebrating Food Tradition from 2017-01-01T12:58

In this series of four programmes broadcast over the Christmas period, Sheila Dillon explores the link between tradition and food. Food can bind a community together, and give it new life. In thi...

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Wild Boar from 2016-12-25T12:58

In this series of four programmes broadcast over Christmas, Sheila Dillon explores the link between tradition and food. For Christmas Day, Sheila celebrates The Wild Boar Feast - an ancient Vikin...

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A Passion for Cake from 2016-12-20T11:05

In this series of four programmes broadcast over Christmas, Sheila Dillon explores the link between tradition and food. First, in the run-up to Christmas, she takes an irreverent look at baking -...

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The Future of Cheese from 2016-12-12T15:39

Dan Saladino finds out what the future holds for cheese, including the role of raw milk. It's a story of microbes, mystery, discord and symphony. Dan is joined by Bronwen Percival, cheese buyer fo...

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Sisters' Feast from 2016-12-05T11:56

'Pop-up' chef and food writer Olia Hercules, The Great British Bake Off contestant turned Youtube star Chetna Makan, Film academic come supper club hostess Dr Alissa Timoshkina and cafe chef / 'ins...

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Cookbooks of 2016 from 2016-11-28T16:42

Sheila Dillon and guests discuss the year's food and cookery books - focussing on debut food books. Joining Sheila in the studio is cook, gardener and writer Jojo Tulloh, journalist and food write...

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Our Wild Spice Rack from 2016-11-21T17:22

Sheila Dillon heads to Galloway, Scotland, to meet forager and wild food teacher Mark Williams - who claims to be able to match anything in our spice racks with flavours found in the wild, in the U...

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Cooking clubs in Basqueland from 2016-11-14T16:26

Spain's Basque region exerts a powerful influence on global cuisine, Dan Saladino finds out why. Heston Blumenthal and writer Harold Mcgee provide insights into this food culture.

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Gavin and the Chinese Food Olympics from 2016-11-07T15:57

Every four years, the most established names in Chinese cuisine pitch their skills against each other in an international competition which has become known as the Olympics of Chinese food. This ye...

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Pumpkins and Winter Squash from 2016-11-01T10:37

Sheila Dillon and special guests discover a delicious world of pumpkins and winter squash. It's Halloween time, and pumpkins are making their annual appearance in windows and on doorsteps. But the...

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Terra Madre Part 2: A Global Food Gathering from 2016-10-24T14:55

From ancient Egyptian bread to Native American food, Dan Saladino reports from Terra Madre.

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Terra Madre Part 1: A Global Food Gathering from 2016-10-17T16:37

Dan Saladino reports from Slow Food's global food event Terra Madre with stories from Africa. Terra Madre (aka Mother Earth) is probably one of the world's biggest gatherings around food. Thousan...

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The Apple: How British a Fruit? from 2016-10-09T11:30

As apple fairs and celebrations are held all around the country, Sheila Dillon travels to an orchard in Devon for a conversation with drinks writer Pete Brown, who has just written a book about his...

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Diet and Dementia from 2016-10-03T16:28

For the 850 thousand families in the UK living with dementia, the simple daily practise of eating a meal can escalate into a dreaded challenge. Spurred on by a listener's personal experience, Sheil...

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Food Stories from Syria 2 from 2016-09-28T12:21

This week, as aid convoys carrying food into Syria have been under attack, Dan Saladino revisits the conflict. A year ago, he reported on how displaced Syrians managed to eat and survive in conflic...

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An Antarctic Chef from 2016-09-18T11:55

Charles Green. Chas to his family, 'cook' to his colleagues. A young baker whose sense of adventure drew him to a career cooking on the sea. You may never have heard of Charles, but you certainly w...

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Cooking for Poldark from 2016-09-12T14:30

As the much-anticipated new series of Poldark returns to our screens, most eyes will be on Aidan Turner but behind the scenes a raft of experts has worked to ensure each setting is as accurate to t...

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Coffee and the God Shot. The Drinks Menu from 2016-09-06T12:47

Dan Saladino journeys into coffee's past, present and future. He discovers a world of new flavours, far from his formative espresso experiences in Sicily - and finds that things are more precarious...

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Whisky Britannia: The Drinks Menu from 2016-08-29T14:30

With 20 million casks lying in storage maturing, Scotch whisky looks set to hold its strong place in the world market for decades to come. It's the third biggest industry in Scotland, contributing ...

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Time for an Aperitif? The Drinks Menu from 2016-08-21T14:30

In French, 'l'aperitif', in Italian, 'l'aperitivo'. We don't of course have a translation in English, but the aperitif, the drinks and snacks which proceed a meal have long captured our imagination...

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Roger Protz: A Life Through Beer from 2016-08-15T14:30

From being tucked under the pub bar stool as a baby to getting into Fleet Street pubs underage, Roger Protz's passion for beer began early. He's spent 40 years on a mission to celebrate and protect...

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The Surprising Strawberry from 2016-08-07T11:59

2016's strawberry solstice fell as the UK's strawberry pickers embarked on a bigger crop than ever before. Strawberries have become a supermarket staple - no longer a seasonal treat. But as our app...

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Raising the Pulse from 2016-08-01T14:00

Pulses are little marvels - protein packed lentils, peas and beans are cheap, good for health and help the soil. They're central to many food cultures including Italy and France but as a nation we ...

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A Fat Lot of Good from 2016-07-29T12:32

The range of fats and oils available to us is growing but the advice has changed dramatically. Sheila Dillon looks to cut through the latest thinking to help gain clarity of which we should be usin...

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Kitchens of Power from 2016-07-29T09:10

Why is cheese essential when the German Chancellor comes for dinner? Dan Saladino explains why a plate of food shouldn't be taken at face value in this special episode of the Food Programme, made...

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Albania and the Cheese Road from 2016-07-18T12:04

Dan Saladino travels on a new road in Albania that leads to an undiscovered cheese world.

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School food: An uncertain future from 2016-07-10T11:58

In 2013, The School Food Plan was published aiming to revolutionise food in schools across England, and to show countries around the world what providing good food in schools could look like. Out o...

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Brexit and Food: A Food Programme Special from 2016-07-04T18:29

Dan Saladino outlines the big food issues we're facing because of Brexit. From the impact of a devalued pound to longer term questions over the future of how we farm, produce, buy and sell food. Da...

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That Gut Feeling: Part Two from 2016-06-27T16:26

Dan Saladino returns to the world of the gut microbiota, the vast array of microbes within us all. From the Amazon Basin to East Africa to the life underneath our feet; food will never be quite the...

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Food, Fishing and the Faroes from 2016-06-20T14:12

Dan Saladino reports on food, survival and fishing from the Faroe Islands. From fermented sheep's head to whale blubber he finds out how people eat on the remote archipelago. For many generations m...

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That Gut Feeling: Part One from 2016-06-13T14:30

Dan Saladino discovers the world of the gut microbiota, the vast array of microbes within us all. From East Africa to the White House, it's a story that'll change the way you eat.

Dan is j...

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An Archive for Food from 2016-06-05T12:00

In the British Library there is an archive of life story sound recordings which tells the true story of how our food has changed over the past century. Until now, this collection has been accessibl...

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Diana Henry: A Life Through Food (Part 2) from 2016-05-24T14:25

Food writer Diana Henry has just collected a James Beard Award in America for her latest book 'A Bird in the Hand'. Straight from the plane she joined Sheila Dillon at the Bristol Food Connections ...

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Best Food Producer: The Winner from 2016-05-13T14:15

Part two of a road trip which took BBC Food & Farming Awards judges Yotam Ottolenghi and Sheila Dillon from the Outer Hebrides, to Cheshire's pastures and on to South west Wales. Which is where the...

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Best Food Producer: The Finalists from 2016-05-06T18:24

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sheila Dillon meet BBC Food and Farming Awards's best food producers.

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2016: Special Edition from 2016-05-05T17:50

Sheila Dillon presents the 2016 BBC Food & Farming Awards in this extended online special.



At the ceremony in Bristol, Sheila and three co-hosts - Yotam Ottolenghi, Angela Hartne...

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Bristol - A story of a city through its food from 2016-04-24T11:00

Sheila Dillon and Genevive Taylor explore why Bristol has such a strong food scene.

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Food in Extreme Places: Space (3/3) from 2016-04-18T17:03

Food in the most extreme cooking environment, space. Dan Saladino tries menus for Mars.

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Food in Extreme Places: The Submarine (2/3) from 2016-04-11T14:30

Continuing our series of programmes on cooking and eating in challenging conditions in remote places: The Royal Navy's submarines make their own air and water so food is the one factor limiting how...

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Food in Extreme Places: Antarctica (1/3) from 2016-04-03T11:50

Across all of the world, weather doesn't get more extreme than the Antarctic winter. The continent is plunged into 24 hour darkness from from March to October with strong polar winds and temperatur...

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Food Is Mad - The Update from 2016-03-24T18:21

From the guerilla gardener Ron Finley in South Central LA fighting the law to grow vegetables to the project training children in Brazilian favelas to train as chefs, Dan Saladino has shared some i...

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The Pizza from 2016-03-21T12:16

Dan Saladino charts the rise, fall and rise of traditional Neapolitan pizza. He's joined by Daniel Young whose "Where to Eat Pizza" lists 1700 great pizzerias around the world.

A common t...

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Ferment from 2016-03-14T18:37

Fermentation is one of our oldest methods for preserving food. All around the world people have been transforming food with the help of microbes for thousands of years. The problem is, this simple ...

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BBC Food and Farming Awards 2016: The Finalists from 2016-03-14T13:11

Sheila Dillon unveils the list of this year's BBC Food & Farming Awards finalists.

Presenter: Sheila Dillon
Producer: Rich Ward.

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The Sake Revelation from 2016-03-07T11:05

If your experience of sake has been limited to simply 'a hot cup of alcohol after a meal' like Sheila Dillon it's time to listen without prejudice. With thousands of breweries each producing dozens...

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Feeding India from 2016-02-29T14:29

Dan Saladino explores the fierce debate over how 1.2bn people will be fed in the future.

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First Bite from 2016-02-15T11:12

In her new book, First Bite - How We Learn To Eat, Bee Wilson takes a deep and reflective look at how food choices and habits are shaped, and how they can be changed.

Sheila Dillon is join...

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Eating to Run: Part 2 from 2016-02-11T13:34

Ultra-marathon champ and vegan Scott Jurek tells Dan Saladino how to eat and run 100 miles. Fermented food and Paleo diets are also put to the test in Food and Running Part 2.

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Newcastle: The Story of a City through Its Food from 2016-02-04T16:48

Dan Saladino meets the people working to improve the food future of Newcastle.

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Cardiff: The Story of a City through Its Food from 2016-01-25T17:23

Welcome to Cardiff, Croeso i Caerdydd. The capital of Wales and the fastest growing urban population in the UK. For centuries, people have come to the city to live from Wales, and from far beyond t...

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Leeds: The Story of a City Through Its Food from 2016-01-17T13:00

When the Food Programme went to Leeds to cover its growing food and drink scene many areas of the city had recently been flooded. At the time community groups, including Muslims and Sikhs, were tak...

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2016 Food and Farming Awards Launch from 2016-01-10T12:50

Sheila Dillon reveals this year's team of judges, and launches the 2016 BBC Food and Farming Awards. Sheila will be catching up with some of last year's winners and nominees and explaining how you ...

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Eating to Run: Part 1 from 2016-01-04T18:20

How important is diet to running performance? It's a question Food Programme listener and runner Nicole Marais wanted answers too and so she emailed the programme's production team. This programme ...

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Yotam Ottolenghi: A Life Through Food from 2015-12-28T15:30

Food writer, chef, restaurateur, philosopher...?

Since 'Ottolenghi: the cookbook' was published in 2008, Yotam Ottolenghi has become one of the UK's most followed voices on food and cookin...

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No Mere Trifle from 2015-12-20T13:59

For some, trifle is an essential part of Christmas - a star centrepiece at the dinner table. For others its a reminder of 70s food hell - soggy sponge, jelly, hundreds and thousands dissolving into...

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Juliet Harbutt: A Life Through Food from 2015-12-15T09:56

As she readies herself for an imminent move back to her native New Zealand after three decades in the UK, Juliet Harbutt, cheese educator and campaigner, shares her life in food with Sheila Dillon....

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Food Museums from 2015-12-06T13:00

If you were to create a museum telling the story of food and drink what would you say or put on display? What about interactivity - tastes and smells? Is it about flavour and experience or the proc...

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Cookbooks of 2015 from 2015-12-01T13:34

Sheila Dillon and guests reflect on a year of cookery and food books.

Sheila is joined in the studio by Bee Wilson, historian and food writer who's about to publish First Bite: How We Lear...

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Chinatowns from 2015-11-23T18:05

Nearly every major city in the world has one- a district where Chinese immigrants have settled to live, work and eat. This week Dan Saladino takes you on a tour of Chinatowns around the world.
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Scotch Egg! Scotch Egg! from 2015-11-15T13:00

Scotch eggs may conjure memories of Summer picnics, school dinners or even Alan Partridge but the humble bar snack has been elevated to a culinary canvas on which chefs can make their own mark and ...

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Trish Deseine Goes Home from 2015-11-08T13:00

Trish Deseine may not be a household name in the UK. But in France, the home of gastronomy, her 12 cookbooks, all written in French, have sold hundreds and thousands of copies, and influenced a gen...

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The Pear from 2015-10-25T14:37

For many of us, a disappointing experience with an unripe or tasteless pear has coloured our opinion of what was once thought of as a superior fruit: "gold to the apple's silver".

Sheila D...

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A Milk Appreciation from 2015-10-18T12:00

When was the last time you drank a simple glass of milk? Perhaps you view it more as an ingredient for cooking or to splash in your tea rather than a product of beauty with its own strengths and qu...

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How Did the Chicken Cross the World? from 2015-10-12T12:01

As a race, we humans owe a fair amount to the chicken. Throughout time it has been a religious deity, a medicine source as well as being a food. It's travelled the world alongside explorers, inspir...

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Bitterness from 2015-10-05T11:36

Dan Saladino hunts down that flavour we call 'bitter', and asks if bitterness is disappearing from our food and drink - and why this matters.

Bitter tastes are found all over the planet; w...

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Food Stories from Syria 1 from 2015-09-27T12:00

The continuing conflict in Syria has caused millions of people to flee the country. Images of men, women and children living in camps, walking vast distances and even risking perilous journeys by b...

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The Ark of Taste: The Story so Far from 2015-09-23T10:36

This is a race against time. Earlier this year The Food Programme set out to record stories of foods around the world facing extinction, a project that has provided dramatic accounts from the depth...

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Jam Tomorrow... Today from 2015-09-15T11:31

Jam. Think sticky apricot and saccharine strawberry? Think again. Our British love affair with jam goes back to the sweet-toothed 17th century. But now our interest seems to be waning. Shop sales o...

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Libera Terra: Sicily's Anti-Mafia Farms from 2015-09-07T14:41

Dan Saladino finds out how farms confiscated from Sicily's mafia are providing food and wine, helping to fight crime and providing a future for a new generation on the island.

The project,...

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My Food Hero: Dan Saladino meets Mary Taylor-Simeti from 2015-09-01T11:54

Dan Saladino retraces his Sicilian food roots and goes in search of a great expert on the island's cuisine, Mary Taylor Simeti. She left America in the early 1960's and has now lived in Sicily for ...

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My Food Hero: Ella McSweeney Meets Wendell Berry from 2015-09-01T10:30

Wendell Berry has been described as 'An American Hero' but his work and teaching have inspired and influenced leaders, writers and campaigners around the world. Ella McSweeney had no hesitation in ...

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My Food Hero: Sheila Dillon meets writer and campaigner Susan George from 2015-08-17T12:15

In the second of a special series of food heroes, Sheila Dillon meets one of the most influential writers on international hunger and social justice in recent times.

Susan George publishe...

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My Food Hero: Tim Hayward meets Len Deighton from 2015-08-11T11:58

Tim Hayward meets the man who changed the whole way he approached food. Someone who inspired Tim, and many others, to look at food and the techniques of cooking in a completely new way.

A ...

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Going Pop from 2015-08-03T16:45

Staying sober on a night out can be a limiting experience with the soft drinks choice on offer in many places. But with an increasing number of 16-24 year olds staying teetotal, demand is increasin...

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Bread for Scotland from 2015-07-27T18:39

Scotland has a problem with food. For all the salmon, whisky and summer berries celebrated in this year of Scottish Food & Drink, the Government says its spending billions fighting an obesity crisi...

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Fast Food Workers from 2015-07-20T16:03

With a new "living wage" announced Sheila Dillon explores the world of fast food workers. In the U.S. a campaign over low pay, started in 2012, has now gone global. Saying they could no longer live...

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New Wine Generation from 2015-07-13T17:00

There's a revolution happening in the world of wine. While tradition once dictated the way things were done, a new generation of wine drinkers are shaking things up - in the way it's sold, consumed...

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Feeding the Commons - Part II: Lunch to Lights Out from 2015-07-06T17:00

Following the food operation at the centre of British politics. Lunch to Lights out

The Food Programme team go behind the scenes of one of the most historic food operations in the world. Listen

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Feeding the Commons - Part I: Breakfast to Brunch from 2015-06-29T18:25

Following the food operation at the centre of British politics. Breakfast to Brunch. The Food Programme team go behind the scenes of one of the most historic food operations in the world.

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Fantastic Fiction and Fabulous Feasts from 2015-06-22T16:33

Close your eyes and think for a moment about the books you read as a child and those that talked about food. A vivid description of a flavour can spark the imagination and the taste buds but a secr...

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Simon Hopkinson: A Life Through Food - Part 2 from 2015-06-15T18:24

Cook and writer Simon Hopkinson was at the height of his powers in the kitchen of Bibendum in London in the early 1990s, but he'd walk away from professional cooking to focus on his food writing. Listen

The Food Programme
Simon Hopkinson: A Life Through Food - Part 1 from 2015-06-15T18:21

Cook and food writer Simon Hopkinson shares his culinary life story with Sheila Dillon. In a food career spanning four decades he's been an influential chef, television cook and author of the "most...

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Barbecue from 2015-06-11T11:40

From the 'slow and low' tradition of the American south to the village of Llantwit Major in South Wales, Dan Saladino explores the revival of one of the food world's most misunderstood words; barbe...

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