A Taste of Britain Revisited - Yorkshire
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dan Saladino revisits Yorkshire food traditions which were captured on film in 1974 by Derek Cooper, previous presenter of The Food Programme. From Yorkshire puddings to tripe, Dan discovers how the food from this region was formed by the Industrial Revolution, hard labour and fuel.
Dan re-watches the original 1970s A Taste of Britain tv programme with historian Peter Brears, writer Christopher Hirst, and those who remember the people and places in the original film.
Presented by Dan Saladino and produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill.
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| 0:36.0 | What year, one one is 75? |
| 0:40.0 | A series started in 74 and went to 78. |
| 0:49.0 | For the past three weeks I've been on the road, |
| 0:52.0 | retracing Derek Cooper's footsteps in search of the people, places and food he recorded in a pioneering 1970s television series, A Taste of Britain. It's a series packed with food stories Derek cared deeply |
| 1:06.0 | about and which by the mid-70s he realized were fading away. We thought it might not be a bad idea if we looked at the old traditional skills in producing and preparing food before they died out altogether. |
| 1:25.0 | We've solved the mystery of Dorset's Blue Vinnie Cheese and walked the cockle beds |
| 1:30.6 | that once gave work to hundreds of families in Southwest Wales. |
| 1:34.8 | But in this final part of the series, we're off to Yorkshire. |
| 1:38.4 | So far in this series, we look mainly at the countryside and the effect which geography and the climate has on the food that people eat. |
| 1:44.8 | But this face of it, most of us live in towns and living in a town has a profound effect on the things you eat. |
| 1:51.6 | Derek had arrived in the west riding of Yorkshire, |
| 1:54.1 | visiting Dewsbury and Wakefield |
| 1:56.2 | in search of fading memories of puddings and tripe. |
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