Cardiff: The Story of a City through Its Food
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Cardiff, Croeso i Caerdydd. The capital of Wales and the fastest growing urban population in the UK. For centuries, people have come to the city to live from Wales, and from far beyond the country's borders, attracted by the prospect of a life between the sea and the hills. It's a city with, at once an international community and a strong Welsh identity.
In this programme Sheila Dillon travels to Wales to find out what this has to bare on the city's food scene. She hears how modern redevelopment is pulling in big restaurant chains, whilst small scale food businesses come up with imaginative ideas to stay in the game. She discovers a part of the city which still reflects the mass immigration into Cardiff docks of the 19th century. Food businesses which are evolving as today's migrants take the helm. She tries a truly home-grown brew, made with crowd grown hops by Cardiffians, and she gets a taste of the city's most revered pastry encased creation. This is a city where food means more than it might first appear.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. |
| 0:10.0 | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:12.0 | The Food Programs on... We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:15.0 | The food program's on tour. We want to know what you can tell about a city through its food and drink. |
| 0:21.0 | And so today I've come to Cardiff. I absolutely love Cardiff. It's got all |
| 0:26.4 | the feelings of a village with all the benefits of a city. From the rise and rise |
| 0:31.4 | of last year's Food and Farming Award winners Hangfire Smokehouse to the inspiring Klink restaurant, the reason for our last visit. |
| 0:40.0 | Cardiff may have struggled, but it's coming of age. |
| 0:45.0 | The change in Cardiff over the last decade is unbelievable. |
| 0:50.0 | I've just seen an increase in desire to do things differently. |
| 0:54.0 | A city that's coming together over foods that make Cardifians different. |
| 0:59.0 | It's a global mile. |
| 1:01.0 | I don't think there's anywhere else in the UK that has got so many different |
| 1:05.8 | regional cuisines. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm walking down one of Cardiff's beautiful 19th century arcades with Sarah Dickens, who's the BBC's |
| 1:18.0 | Wales economics correspondent. Food and drink in Cardiff? what's the story here? |
| 1:23.0 | Well, I think what's really changed here in the last couple of years is the vast number of chains that have come in. |
| 1:29.0 | I mean, we've just emerged out of one arcade now and look, we've got Jamie's Italian, Wagamama, Kalu Kyos, bills all around it and |
| 1:36.9 | this has become a theme of the last couple of years. To be honest, a lot of these |
| 1:40.4 | restaurants, if you're putting them in statistics, they're in the food sector, |
| 1:44.0 | but they're actually about property, they're actually about investment. |
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