Can we bring food diversity back to the table?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino meets people saving endangered foods and bringing diversity back to our diets.

Groups of scientists, chefs and artists are now finding pioneering ways to rethink the global food system. At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew a programme of events called Food Forever involves exhibitions and installations exploring some of the biggest and most complex questions over the future of our food (including this fantasy world of food abundance by Australian artist Tanya Schultz (Pip & Pop), ranging from biodiversity loss and climate change to under utilised crops and enticing flavours.

Dr James Borrell, a research fellow at Kew, explains why a giant plant in south-western Ethiopia, a valuable source of food, called enset (aka 'false banana') is one of the stories we should all know. Designers, María Fuentenebro and Mario Mimoso (Sharp and Sour) describe the 'Museum of Endangered Food', also on display at Kew, which includes enset.

Meanwhile at The Serpentine Gallery,, artists Cooking Sections, is not only creating installations but influencing menus at restaurants such as Benugo's The Magazine.

Photo: When Flowers Dream, an installation by Pip & Pop, (photographer Roger Wooldridge).

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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0:49.2	I'm Dan Saladino.
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0:52.4	From cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy this edition.
0:58.0	Have you ever tasted this food?
1:03.0	This is Koccho and I don't know I've just taken the lid off and you can probably...
1:08.0	It looks like part of a broken plate.
1:10.0	Yeah, in a way.
1:11.0	It's a little sheet and I've got a little bit and you can kind of see the layers there.
1:15.0	If you have bitten into this piece of grey blue ceramic like ferment, chances are you have a connection with Ethiopia. But for my encounter with
1:25.3	Kocchio all I had to do was travel to Kew's temperate house to stand
1:30.1	beneath its source with research fellow Dr James Burrell.
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