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The Food Programme: Wild Boar

Wild Boar

25/12/2016

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Wild Boar

Sheila Dillon explores the Wild Boar Feast, an ancient Christmas tradition.

For Christmas Day, Sheila celebrates the Wild Boar Feast, an ancient Viking tradition which still survives in Britain.

In this series of four programmes broadcast over Christmas, Sheila Dillon explores the link between tradition and food. 

For Christmas Day, Sheila celebrates The Wild Boar Feast - an ancient Viking tradition which still lingers on in Britain (think of 'pigs in blankets') and inspires our love of the Christmas Ham. Historian Eleanor Barraclough introduces Sheila to a stuffed boar's head in the cellars of Queen's College, Oxford, and explains about how the boar was at the centre of mid-winter pagan fertility rituals. In Cumbria, Sheila meets a field of wild boar and talks to farmer Peter Gott about the fearsome intelligence of his huge beasts. Scandinavian chef Trine Hahnemann reveals the huge importance of the Christmas boar in Sweden, and how to make a meatball sandwich for Boxing Day. And chef Giorgio Locatelli explores the passion for wild boar across Italy. 

With music from The Boar's Head Carol, the oldest printed carol in English, and recipes from Trine Hahnemann and Giorgio Locatelli. 

Producer: Elizabeth Burke.

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