A Food Rethink: Lessons from a Food Shortage

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

From energy to seasonality, Dan Saladino explores the big ideas prompted by the recent shortage of fresh produce in supermarkets. Is the now time for a major food rethink?

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino

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0:44.5	Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio Falls, the food program.
0:49.2	I'm Dan Saladino.
0:50.6	Welcome to our world.
0:52.4	From cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy
0:57.0	this edition.
0:58.0	There is one good thing about a tomato shortage in winter. At least it got us talking about food.
1:08.0	Do we want to have cheap food? Do we want to have resilient supply chains? The two of them don't always
1:15.5	go together terribly well. A lot of people don't know where their food comes from at all.
1:19.2	They just literally think they go to the supermarket take what they want and it's cheap and plentiful and that's
1:23.5	coming to an end quite rapidly. Farmers probably work the hardest of any
1:27.2	section of our community and they've just not had the continuity or
1:31.0	support or understanding that they need it's a great
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