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The Food Programme: Blood

Blood

02/04/2017

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Blood

Tim Hayward wants you to cook with blood. Surely it's not as scary as it sounds?...

Hot and cold, red and blue. If the thought of cooking with blood leaves you light-headed, then Tim Hayward wants you to listen.

Blood in food is about as divisive as it comes. But Tim Hayward loves it. A rare steak, a carefully crisped slice of black pudding, a blood meringue...?

In this programme Tim meets butchers, cooks and chefs determined to put blood back on the dining table. From the Fruit Pig Co. Cambridgeshire butchers taking black pudding to its traditional routes; Otto Tepassé an Austrian born restaurateur preserving and performing the theatrical French canard à la presse with a sumptuous sauce thickened with blood; to award winning writer Jennifer McLagan baking blood sweets - chocolate brownies, blood ice cream, and even blood cocktails.

If the thought of a truly Bloody Mary makes you weak at the knees, don't adjust your set. As Tim explores the world of blood in food and drink, he also uncovers the deep relationship we have with blood - cultural, physiological, religious as well as culinary. Featuring Professor Emeritus of Cultural History Sir Christopher Frayling, and American author and academic John Edgar Browning.

Presented by Tim Hayward.
Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.

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