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THE FOOD PROGRAMME
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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
- Derek's interview
- What do you know about Derek? |
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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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SELF SUFFICIENCY
Sheila Dillon discovers the delights and the difficulties of becoming self-sufficient in food.
Could we grow more of our own food? From growing your own vegetables to being able to feed ourselves as a nation in the face of war or trade barriers we explore the social environmental and economic implications of food security.
GUESTS AND INTERVIEWS
Sheila goes gathering wild food with Italian chef Gennaro Contaldo who has found out that his home city of London offers more free food growing wild than the average inhabitant might think. He and Sheila find wild rocket, elderflowers, sorrel and poor man’s truffles among the hedgerows and turn them all into a delicious meal from the back of Gennaro’s Landrover.
In the studio, Sheila chats to food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who’s been eating his own home grown produce for years. His efforts to cure bacon from his own pigs, cook fish caught in his local stream and make preserves from fruit and vegetables from his garden have all been documented in programmes and books about his life at the River Cottage in Dorset.
Chef and reporter Gerard Baker visits a Community Supported Agriculture scheme in Morayshire, Scotland. EarthShare was set up by farmers Mathis Rosenbush and Christopher Raymont to provide a vegetable box scheme for local community members. The difference is that their subscribers get a discount on their vegetables if they help out with weeding and harvesting through the growing year. Gerard also talks to Jackie Jones and Joan Wilmot, both shareholders and co-authors of the EarthShare cookbook Boxing Clever who explain how to deal with gluts of some vegetables and shortages of others.
But what of our ability as a nation to feed ourselves? Sheila talks to historian Professor Mark Overton of Exeter University who outlines the history of Britain’s changing attitudes towards national food security. Sheila visits the Port of Tilbury where British wheat has been imported and exported since 1969. These days we have an exportable surplus of wheat – but in the 1960s and ‘70s we were net importers of grain – grain trader Keith Davies director of Glencore Grain UK Ltd explains how trading patterns have changed and what the future holds for British wheat. British farmers are concerned that our ability to feed ourselves is decreasing. Imports of fruit and vegetables are on the increase and their concerns about the safety of imported food in the wake of Foot and Mouth Disease as well as concerns about the ever-decreasing income of British farmers has lead the Commercial Farmers Group to produce a report on Britain’s food security. Chairman of the group Henry Fell outlines their findings to Sheila.
Alan Marin, senior lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics outlines the economic reasons for Britain’s reliance on food imports.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EarthShare is a Community Supported Agriculture Scheme based in Moray
Contacts: Pam Bochel
Email:earthshare@macunlimitd.net
EarthShare
Professor Mark Overton BA (Exon), MA, PhD (Cambridge) FRHistS - Professor of Economic and Social History
The University of Exeter
Northcote House
The Queen’s Drive
Exeter EX4 4QJ
University of Exeter
Glencore Grain UK Ltd
Northesk Granaries Dubton of Stracathro
Brechin DD9 7PX
Director: Keith Davies
Commerical Farmers Group
Chairman: Henry Fell
Church House
Horkstow
Barton on Humber DN18 6BG
Alan Marin,
Senior Lecturer in Economics at LSE
Department of Economics
London School of Economics & Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
London School of Economics
BOOKS
Passione: The Cookbook by Gennaro Contaldo (Headline)
ISBN: 0755311183
The River Cottage Year by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Hodder & Stoughton)
ISBN: 0340828218
Self Sufficiency by John Seymour (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 0751364428
Earthshare’s cook book is The Boxing Clever Cook Book by Jacqui Jones & Joan Wilmot
ISBN: 0-9543891-0-7
Send a cheque for £12.49 (£9.99 + 2.50 p&p) made payable J&J Publishing to:
Mains of Struthers Farm, Kinloss, Forres, Moray. IV36 2UD
Tel: 01309 672 001
The Boxing Clever Cook Book
Email: jj@theboxingclevercookbook.co.uk
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