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Back to SearchRaymond Blanc: The Lost Orchard
Raymond Blanc has spent decades growing an orchard at Le Manoir. An orchard Raymond has planted with 2500 rare trees from in the hope of saving lost …
5 years, 2 months ago
University Challenge: How students and universities are managing meals during the pandemic
Universities have become big business in the UK in recent decades - educating around 2.3 million students, with an annual operating expenditure of ov…
5 years, 2 months ago
Nadiya Hussain: A Life Through Food
It's been five years since Nadiya Hussain left the Great British Bake Off tent victorious, inspiring and instilling confidence in wannabe bakers acro…
5 years, 2 months ago
Eat Your Way to Power: Food and Politics on the Campaign Trail
Food can tell us a lot about our politicians, at least that seems to be what we think. We love to see them eat and we obsess about what goes in their…
5 years, 2 months ago
Faith, Fasts and Feasts: The role of food in Jewish celebration
This year’s autumn run of Jewish holy days has been like no other; but even with coronavirus-related restrictions in place, food and community has re…
5 years, 3 months ago
English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.
Dan Saladino visits shepherd and writer James Rebanks whose farm in Cumbria spans three generations. What does can that history teach us about where …
5 years, 3 months ago
Taking the Biscuit: How a long-life ration became the quintessential British comfort food
Biscuits aren’t just a classic accompaniment to a cuppa: they’re also somehow an edible comforter - very often providing a link to childhood, to fami…
5 years, 3 months ago
Wheat Revolutions
Dan Saladino tells the story of wheat from the domestication of wild grasses in the Neolithic Revolution through to the controversial Green Revolutio…
5 years, 3 months ago
Kitchen obsessives: Why aim to cook the perfect dish?
March 2020. Supermarket shelves were bare, restaurants and takeaways were closed, schools and workplaces closed. Perhaps it's no surprise then that a…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Ice Cream Van: A Celebration.
Dan Saladino and his dad Bobo (a former ice-cream man) talk Mr Whippy, 99s and Screwballs. Together Dan and Bobo (who also used to work in restaurant…
5 years, 4 months ago