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The Food Programme

Madhur Jaffrey, a life through food

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sheila Dillon meets Madhur Jaffrey, Indian cooking legend, who has just returned from India on her latest exploration into its vast food culture. Show more

The Food Programme

Alice Waters, a Delicious Revolution

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

The Californian chef and campaigner Alice Waters shares her story with Sheila Dillon, from early life in the 1960s counter-culture to influencing the food thinking of presidents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sheila Dillon
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Waters
Producer:
Rich Ward
Producer:
Dan Saladino

The Food Programme

Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange, Part 2

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

In part two of their exchange of food stories, Magnus Nilsson invites Valentine Warner to venture into the lakes of Sweden's Jamtland in the middle of the night in search of trout. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Magnus Nilsson
Producer:
Dan Saladino

The Food Programme

Skint Foodies

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sheila Dillon meets cooks specialising in great food on small budgets. Single mum 'A Girl Called Jack', Belfast-born Miss South and 'Skint Foodie' have become influential bloggers. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sheila Dillon
Interviewed Guest:
Jack Monroe
Producer:
Dan Saladino

The Food Programme

The Future of Street Food

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Can street food change the world? Richard Johnson looks at ideas being tried around the world, from food carts setting up in 'food deserts' to night markets transforming cities. Show more

The Food Programme

A Quiet Food Revolution: The Story of Myrtle and Darina Allen

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

How two women, Myrtle and Darina Allen, revolutionised food in Ireland with their cooking. From pioneering restaurants to farmers' markets, Dan Saladino tells the Ballymaloe story. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Dan Saladino
Producer:
Dan Saladino
Interviewed Guest:
Myrtle Allen
Interviewed Guest:
Darina Allen

The Food Programme

Horsemeat - a Food Programme update

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sheila Dillon asks why, ten months after the horsemeat scandal, no-one has been either fined or prosecuted. Show more

The Food Programme

Chef Dan Barber: The Third Plate

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Series exploring the world of food. The influential New York chef and writer Dan Barber is in the UK on a delicious mission to change the way we think about food 'waste'. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Dan Saladino
Producer:
Rich Ward
Interviewed Guest:
Dan Barber

The Food Programme

Food Stories from Venezuela: Eating in a Failed State.

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Venezuela is seeing its worst economic crisis in living memory. As some of the most basic ingredients become unavailable or unaffordable, Dan Saladino tells the food story. Show more

The Food Programme

Food Stories from Venezuela Part 2: Maria Fernanda Di Giacobbe

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Dan Saladino meets Maria Fernanda Di Giacobbe, who believes Venezuela's escape from crisis rests on chocolate and is on a mission to reclaim her country's former cacao bean glory. Show more

The Food Programme

The Chef Who Vanished - The Story of Jeremiah Tower

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

At the age of 30, with no formal training, Jeremiah Tower became a chef. His approach to cooking changed the food world for good, then he walked away. Dan Saladino tells his story. Show more

The Food Programme

Cult Fiction and Food

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

From Confederacy of Dunces to Absolute Beginners and On The Road, Dan Saladino explores cult novels to find out how Jack Kerouac, Colin MacInnes and John Kenney Toole used food. Show more

The Food Programme

Hunting With The Hadza 2: The Microbiome.

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Dan Saladino takes another journey into the world of food and the gut microbiome, asking if hunter gatherers the Hadza tribe hold the key to our future health. Show more

The Food Programme

Sandor Katz and the Art of Fermentation

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Series exploring the world of food. Dan Saladino heads to rural Tennessee to meet teacher, writer and fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Dan Saladino
Interviewed Guest:
Sandor Katz
Producer:
Rich Ward

The Food Programme

US Southern cooking and chef Sean Brock

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

In an award-winning edition of the Food Programme, Richard Johnson travels through the deep south to meet chef Sean Brock and taste the flavours of the lost Carolina Rice Kitchen. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Johnson
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Brock
Producer:
Dan Saladino

The Food Programme

Mexican cooking and the food adventures of Diana Kennedy

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Dan Saladino meets the world authority on the food of Mexico, British-born writer Diana Kennedy. She has spent six decades travelling, in search of lost ingredients and recipes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Dan Saladino
Presenter:
James Casey
Interviewed Guest:
Diana Kennedy
Producer:
Dan Saladino

The Food Programme

Salad leaves

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Dan Saladino reports on the increasingly complex world of the simplest of foods, salad leaves. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Dan Saladino
Interviewed Guest:
Rene Redzepi
Interviewed Guest:
David Everitt-Matthais
Interviewed Guest:
Irene Sax
Interviewed Guest:
Charlie Hicks
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Diacono
Producer:
Rich Ward

The Food Programme

Problems with Poultry?

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Is the poultry industry fit for purpose? As our consumption of chicken increases and UK poultry production intensifies, Dan Saladino looks at the modern poultry industry. Show more