A Food Museum – can it make us care about food?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If food is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and also a lens through which we can interpret our history and how we live now, then surely it deserves a museum? The UK has only just got its first permanent Food Museum. It’s in Stowmarket in Suffolk, recently rebranded from The Museum of East Anglian Life. Sheila Dillon visits its beautiful 84 acres, with its historic buildings, crops, orchard, kitchen garden, water mill and animals to find out how the museum team are reinterpreting its collections to connect people to where our food comes from.

Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol

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0:38.0	Hello, I'm Sheila Dylan.
0:40.0	This episode of The Food Programme is about a food museum.
0:44.4	Have you thought very much about a food museum?
0:46.6	I hadn't, really.
0:48.0	But now Britain has one.
0:50.0	England has one.
0:51.3	As far as we know, it's the only one in the whole UK.
0:54.3	What's it about? What could it be about? Could it join up the dots?
0:58.7	Could it be part of the national conversation about food. Well have a listen.
1:04.4	We roll it out and do we use lots of flour or do we not use it?
1:09.4	Having a good time in a museum of food.
1:15.0	The remains of this you need not even all.
1:20.0	This is the UK's first permanent food museum.
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