A World Stage for Food and Music
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Every year at the WOMAD festival, one tent in a field in Wiltshire becomes the venue for a remarkable meeting of food and music. Solo artists and bands from all over the world gather to share recipes and stories with the audience, who get to taste dishes created in front of them, often by musicians who have never cooked in public before.
In this edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon is at the 'Taste the World' tent and uncovers some of the food stories and experiences that have shaped these unique performances.
On the journey Sheila encounters Guo Yue, who grew up in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution and is now a master flautist and respected cook. There's also Nano Stern from Chile, Québécois band Le Vent Du Nord as well as South Louisiana's Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys.
In the company of Taste the World's host Roger de Wolf, there will be roux bubbling, passionate story-telling and a culinary phone-call to the deep wilderness.
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| 0:57.0 | over the next two weeks we'll be uncovering in an unlikely way food stories and |
| 1:07.5 | experiences from around the world using unfamiliar voices and sounds to do the storytelling, |
| 1:14.5 | not policy experts or chefs or academics or farmers, |
| 1:18.5 | but instead next week it's novelists. |
| 1:22.0 | This week musicians. |
| 1:27.1 | Once a year musicians come to a tent in a field |
| 1:30.0 | in Wiltshire to make something called |
| 1:32.2 | Taste the World happen. |
| 1:34.8 | On a platform that's half stage, half kitchen, they play, they cook, they tell stories, |
| 1:40.0 | and then they share what they've cooked with the audience. |
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