Belfast: Creating a New Food Tradition

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this series of four programmes broadcast over Christmas and the New Year, Sheila Dillon explores the link between tradition and food.

Sheila ends the series by exploring the creation of a new food culture - in Northern Ireland. It started with the revival of the St George's market in Belfast - now in full swing, and hundreds of young businesses are now thriving. Sheila tours the market with chef Paula McIntyre and meets people with a new take on traditional Irish food. She catches up with butter and cheese producers who were in the vanguard of this new movement, and asks how you carry on innovating - and what they've learned on the way. And she travels to the island of Rathlin off the north coast of Ireland, to meet a family who are making an international business out of growing kelp, and exporting it to Japan.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:04.0	Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.
0:09.0	Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy it.
0:15.0	It's Saturday morning and I'm in the middle of Belfast at St. George's market, the big food market, and it's 10 o'clock.
0:27.0	It's getting very busy and I can see right in front of me. Vegetables, salad, kefir, fish, a lot of fish. This market is now one of the
0:38.2	city's leading tourist attractions and I'm with one of Northern Ireland's leading chefs, Paula McIntyre, who's going to be my guide today.
0:48.7	Paula, do you shop here?
0:50.5	Yes, absolutely, yeah.
0:52.1	Especially for fish, we know, I love this building because I remember
0:55.2	used to drive past it. It was lying empty, you know, in the middle of the troubles. And this, for me,
1:00.7	epitomises Northern Ireland at the moment because it's come to life, we've got tourists,
1:05.2	the locals are embracing the food, they're embracing the actual atmosphere.
1:09.5	I mean you stand here now, you get the smell also people talking there's music and I love it I
1:16.1	think it's one of my favorite places I mean it is one of the handsomest markets in the UK
1:20.6	I mean it's this red brick I guess mid-Victorian building. It's I mean it's gorgeous
1:26.0	the fact that it was once empty and you know heading for demolition possibly is it
1:30.8	astonishing. What we've been seeing is this revival since the
1:35.4	troubles that food has become a serious good food has become a serious part of
1:40.8	the economy. Paula, we've just got our coffees and are passing a whole group of people being addressed
1:49.2	by a woman with an apple.
1:50.2	What's that?
1:51.2	Well that's Caroline and she runs the Belfast food too.
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