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The Town Is the Menu: Episode 4: Cambridge

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Episode 4: Cambridge

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BBC Radio 4 - The Town Is the Menu, Cambridge

Town and gown provide the inspiration, as Simon Preston creates a new dish for Cambridge.

The friction between town and gown provide intriguing ingredients to inspire food innovator Simon Preston and chef Alex Rushmer to create a brand new signature dish for Cambridge.

Can town and gown be united through food? That's the challenge for food innovator Simon Preston and chef Alex Rushmer as they try to create a dish which will appeal to both the townsfolk and the 'gownsfolk', members of university, in Cambridge - a small city with a huge reputation. University chaplain, Malcolm Guite, shares inspiring stories of the great and the good including a walk with CS Lewis, local historian Caroline Biggs talks of Cambridge's surprising past as an inland port, while tour guide and ex-road sweeper, Allan Brigham, shares his unique perspective on this beautiful city.

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Simon Preston visits a UK town and, with a local chef, creates a new signature dish

Food innovator Simon Preston visits a UK town and, with a local chef, creates a new signature dish for that town inspired by local anecdotes, insights and ingredients

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