Bread for Scotland
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Scotland has a problem with food. For all the salmon, whisky and summer berries celebrated in this year of Scottish Food & Drink, the Government says its spending billions fighting an obesity crisis, and when it comes to groceries, the supermarket is king.
But for the last five years, a small community run bakery on the Scottish borders has been quietly gaining momentum, aiming to change the way Scotland thinks about food, and more specifically, about bread.
In this programme, Sheila Dillon visits the family behind Breadshare, now based in Portobello in Edinburgh. In the city's first community run bakery, husband and wife team Debra Riddell and Geoff Crowe, along with their son and a host of bakers and volunteers, sell bread, made with simple ingredients, and teach people how to make it. Could involving local people be the key to reconnecting Scottish people with Scottish food?
Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Sheila Dylan and welcome to this BBC download of the Food Program. |
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| 0:09.6 | www. |
| 0:10.9 | BBC.co. UK slash Radio 4. |
| 0:15.0 | And now, enjoy the podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Bread is a really important thing, |
| 0:22.0 | especially in Scotland. |
| 0:23.4 | We are a nation of food and drink. |
| 0:25.1 | We export to high-end food products all over the world. |
| 0:27.8 | We're not eating the things that we're famous for. |
| 0:30.4 | The Scottish totems at the moment are things like Tunics and Iron Brew. |
| 0:34.0 | That's not our food production. That's not the connection to the land that we need to see. |
| 0:39.0 | That's the kind of challenge if we want to get people proud of Scottish food. |
| 0:45.0 | Good bread is as good a food as there is. |
| 0:48.0 | The poet had it right. |
| 0:50.0 | Today this program tells a bread story, the story of a bakery and a family with a vision so vivid |
| 0:56.7 | they came from the other side of the world to make this community bakery breadshare |
| 1:02.1 | a reality. |
| 1:04.2 | It's a modest place, three shop fronts wide on a busy road in Portobello, |
| 1:09.4 | one of the less glittering parts of Edinburgh, once a watering and bathing place for the comfortably off. |
| 1:16.3 | Community bakeries have come and gone in Scotland, but we've been told this is a thriving |
| 1:21.7 | place and we wanted to find out why. |
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