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Summer Taste: Sardines

Sardines

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Summer Taste, Sardines

Author Tim Pears recalls cooking potatoes, a tin of sardines and an unidentified herb.

Author Tim Pears recalls making a meal of potatoes, a tin of sardines and an unidentified herb in a makeshift pan. From 2007.

French chef Alexis Gauthier recreates a meal of tinned sardines, stolen potatoes and an unidentified herb, first eaten by author Tim Pears and his friend when hitch-hiking in the South of France as teenagers in 1977.

A series in which a chef helps a writer recall the powerful memories forever associated with a dish first tasted during the long, hot days of summer.

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007.

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