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Life in soil: Tasting the earth in France

How a healthy soil teeming with fungi and microbes can enhance the flavour of food and drink

Writer and environmentalist Isabelle Legeron is in France to see how cultivating a healthy soil, teeming with fungi and microbes, can enhance the flavour profile of food and drink - from cheese to coffee to wine. She explores the fundamental role soil plays in the notion of “terroir’ - the conviction that the natural environment in which plants are grown, can be experienced in the taste and texture of the food and drink made from them.

Isabelle speaks to a cast of soil microbiologists, land managers and taste experts - Lydia and Claude Bourguignon (France), Anne Biklé (USA), the Le Puy vineyard in Bordeaux, Barry Smith (UK), Darek Trowbridge (USA) and Hans-Peter Schmidt (Switzerland).

Presenter: Isabelle Legeron
Producer: Sasha Edye-Lindner
A Cast Iron Production for BBC World Service

(Photo: A vineyard)

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27 minutes

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Sun 2 Oct 2022 10:32GMT

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