Food Programme
Summary: Provenance and pleasure, history and health - Radio 4's weekly look at food. Making sense of food, from the kitchen and canteen, to the farm and factory. We place food in its historical and cultural context; call to account policy makers and industry decision makers; and celebrate the sheer pleasure of good food.
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Richard Johnson is in South Carolina to meet Charleston chef, Sean Brock, who is on a mission to revive ingredients and flavours not experienced for hundreds of years. It's a story that involves an intricate "food tattoo", one of America's biggest private seed collections, a hog roast and "pick picking" and bowls of delicious peas, beans, rice, grits and fried chicken. Producer: Dan Saladino
Richard Johnson is in South Carolina to meet Charleston chef, Sean Brock, who is on a mission to revive ingredients and flavours not experienced for hundreds of years. It's a story that involves an intricate "food tattoo", one of America's biggest private seed collections, a hog roast and "pick picking" and bowls of delicious peas, beans, rice, grits and fried chicken. Producer: Dan Saladino
Tim Hayward looks at the tradition of monastic food production, with stories from Sicily, New York and from closer to home.
The knife, that most coveted of kitchen tools, is Sheila Dillon's subject to explore this week.
Forager Andy Hamilton leads a journey hunting for plants to make incredible drinks, and looks again at the wild world all around us.
Fields of Fish - The huge rise in farmed fish and the people trying to make it sustainable. The world is now producing more farmed fish than farmed beef. Sheila Dillon discovers how fish farming works and hears concerns about its impact on the environment and fish welfare. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill.
Sheila Dillon talks to Ken Hom about his extraordinary life through food. In this second of two special editions recorded at the Bristol Food Connections Festival they focus on what Ken has been doing since his early BBC career and about how his political beliefs have developed.
Ken Hom speaks to Sheila Dillon for Food Connections festival in Bristol about his extraordinary life through food. Part 1: 1 His upbringing and early career.
Sheila Dillon presents this year's BBC Food & Farming Awards. From Best Takeaway to Best Food Market producer, the judging team reveal the "best of the best" in British food and drink. At a ceremony described by Jamie Oliver as the "Oscars of the food world", Sheila and her co-host, cook and food writer Valentine Warner, take us through the stories of the finalists and announce this year's winners. Produced by Dan Saladino
The first of two-part special on the prestigious BBC Food and Farming Awards. In this episode Valentine Warner, Chair of the judges, discovers the food, music and animation which all played their part in the 2014 Awards ceremony Produced by Emma Weatherill in Bristol
Tim Hayward on the evolution of Jamaican food in the UK with chefs and cooks in Bristol.
Sheila Dillon pays tribute to the late Derek Cooper who started The Food Programme back in 1979 and changed the face of food broadcasting and journalism.
Northern Ireland's chefs and producers leading a food renaissance speak to Sheila Dillon and John Toal
Sheila Dillon and guests discuss the controversial subject of raw milk.
Dan Saladino meets brewers transforming the flavours and styles of the British craft beer scene.
