Every week a different product
on the Slow Food Ark of Taste will be presented during a
weekly slot on the BBC
Food Programme
.
The first clip was aired on April 13 and featured Geitost,
a Norwegian cheese, on April
20 the protagonist was the Sea Island Red Pea
from the USA.
Since 1979, Radio 4 has
broadcast weekly episodes of The Food Programme, a 30-minute show dedicated to
reporting food stories and issues from all over the world. The weekly programme
is one of the longest running features of BBC Radio 4.
The collaboration between Slow
Food and the BBC started during the last edition of Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre, in 2014. On that occasion, the
BBC was present with a booth where a
team from The Food Programme met and interviewed producers and farmers
representing some products from the Ark of Taste.
Now BBC Radio 4 wants to broadcast those stories from the Ark of Taste for
BBC radio audiences around the world. Interviews with food producers from all
continents will be aired every week. Each
episode will explore the history of the product, its specific qualitative
characteristics, the reasons why it is at risk of extinction, and more about
its connection to the territory and local traditions. These stories will give
insight into the problems inherent in the current food system – such as meat
production, the vanishing of bees and land grabbing of Indigenous People’s territories
– as well as into the environmental and social challenges that farmers and
producers are facing around the world, threatened by industrialization and
restrictive political regulations.
Furthermore, on May 1, on the occasion of the 15th BBC Food & Farming Awards, a special event will be held
to celebrate the Ark of Taste project. As part of Bristol’s
Food Connections festival (May 1
to 9), four
of the UK’s top chefs will prepare a dinner using ingredients
sourced from the Ark. Tom Hunt, Thomasina Miers, Giorgio Locatelli and Paula
McIntyre have already selected their favorite ingredients from the Ark of Taste
and will create special dishes. At the Ark of
Taste dinner
, the chefs will then explain why they have chosen these
particular ingredients, and why they are unique, as each dish is served up with
the help of the City of Bristol College. All profits from the evening will go
towards the Slow Food 10,000 Gardens in Africa
project.
For further information,
please contact the Slow Food International Press Office:
Paola Nano, +39
329 8321285 p.nano@slowfood.it
Slow Food involves over a million of people dedicated to and passionate
about good, clean and fair food. This includes chefs, youth, activists,
farmers, fishers, experts and academics in over 158 countries; a network of
around 100,000 Slow Food members linked to 1,500 local chapters worldwide
(known as convivia), contributing through their membership fee, as well as the
events and campaigns they organize; and over 2,500 Terra Madre food communities
who practice small-scale and sustainable production of quality food around the
world.
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