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The Food Programme: Fantastic Fiction and Fabulous Feasts

Fantastic Fiction and Fabulous Feasts

21/06/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Fantastic Fiction and Fabulous Feasts

Sheila Dillon devours the delightful children's books that made us excited about food.

Midnight feasts, picnics and fantastic factories have fostered an excitement about food in children's books. Sheila Dillon looks at how they have impacted people into adulthood.

Close your eyes and think for a moment about the books you read as a child and those that talked about food. A vivid description of a flavour can spark the imagination and the taste buds but a secret midnight feast at Malory Towers, the elaborate Hogwarts feasts in Harry Potter or picnics in Wind in the Willows can instil an air of excitement about food that lasts into adulthood. 
Sheila Dillon asks why some scenes can be so powerful they remain with us for decades. She meets those who changed their careers due to the power of the stories they read, she travels to a secret restaurant fantasy land and meets the schoolchildren for whom taste is being brought alive through descriptions of food and flavour. 
Presented by Sheila Dillon and Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.

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