Hello you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.

Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure.

We hope you enjoy it. Well, this is Temple Mead Station, which is where you get off if you're coming to the heart of Bristol. It was built as the

terminus for Isembard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway in 1840 and it's a

fine bit of Victorian Gothic. I come to Bristol

a lot these days because the food program is now based here and it's interesting coming here from the capital because what you see is that food is a sort of glue, a civic glue in Bristol, in a way that it just isn't in the capital or in many other cities.

You know, food enterprises are everywhere and it's quite democratic and to explore this city where food is a sort of civic virtue.

I'm joined by Genevieve Taylor who knows this city far far better than I do.

She's lived here for 20 years. She's a food writer. You lost heard her on the food program

being the mistress of eggs because she's written this wonderful book about eggs.

Hi, welcome to Bristol.

On a beautiful day, on a beautiful day.

Sunny spring day. Yeah.

And so we're beginning underneath the station.

Yeah, we're going to start our journey around Bristol at Hart's Bakery, which is in the arches underneath the station.

Down some specs.

What do you, I mean you're tied into growers, producers,

and you're not part of the restaurant scene.

No, not really at all.

I mean I moved here straight from the university

20 years ago.

I'm a food writer who loves growing stuff

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