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From amaranth to zabaglione, Sheila Dillon and Derek Cooper investigate every aspect of the food we eat. |
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- Derek's biography
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"Cooper is a man with tremendous gusto and passion for the pleasures of life and food, but he is also a man who has a blazing fury with those who are responsible for allowing our food supply to have become so contaminated and with those countless others who accept this state with apathy and disregard."
Journalist Colin Spencer
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Toffee
Sheila Dillon helps us get our teeth into toffee. She celebrates the magic of toffee and caramel which is widely made at this time of year, bonfire toffee, toffee apples, and asks why it has such associations with the north of England. Everton toffee from Liverpool, Welsh taffy and Mackintoshes toffee, first made in Halifax by John Mackintosh, the Toffee King.
We'll be exploring the social history of the large confectionery companies in England, why were they associated with philanthropy, and what's happened now Rowntree Mackintosh has been taken over by the multi-national giant Nestlé. How have the philanthropic confectioners of America fared in the hurly burly of the global market place?
Freelance chef Gerard Baker cooks Treacle Toffee (also known as Bonfire Toffee) and a delicious Toffee and Almond Tart.
Simon Parkes talks to food historian Laura Mason about the history of toffee and also visits Yorkshire to meet Kingsley Johnson, a distant relative of John Mackintosh, the self-styled Toffee King. It was in Halifax that Mackintosh and his wife Violet set up Britain's first mass market toffee company.
Sheila talks to Roger Cordier, who is the Human Resources Director at Nestlé UK, about the prejudice against multinationals taking over smaller companies, as in the case of the take over of Rowntree-Mackintosh by Nestlé in 1988.
Jean Snedegar visits Hershey, Pennsylvania, a model industrial town built by Milton Hershey to house his chocolate factory and workers. She talks to Pam Whitenack, curator of the Hershey Archives, Kathleen Lewis, President of the Derry Township Historical Society, Larry Weinsheimer, plant manager of the Hershey Chocolate Factory, Jane Janeczek, Hershey resident and Bruce McKinney a retired CEO of Hershey Foods, and finds out how Milton Hershey made his first million in toffee, and how the residents of Hershey managed to prevent the company selling out to a multi-national.
Additional information
Nestlé
Nestlé
York YO91 1XY
Tel: 01904 604 604
Hershey Foods
Tel: 001-800-468-1714
Recipes
Bonfire Toffee
Toffee Apples
Toffee and almond tart
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