Digital Dishes - life stories through recipes
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Inside one kitchen in Bristol, thirteen strangers from all over Europe gathered to share food and stories about food. The Food Programme was there to capture it all as the cooking got under way.
As well as resulting in one of the most diverse menus ever assembled it was an event that explained why cous-cous can spark conversation, how a special Bulgarian dish can help tell your fortune and why a hippy commune in 1970's Exeter was ahead of its time in how we think about food.
This unique event was the result of a project run by the Watershed arts centre in Bristol. The thirteen Europeans were taking part in a workshop to learn more about digital technology, food however, was the subject they would use to make this happen.
In one day, participants from Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Turkey, France and the UK would come up with a dish that would help them tell their life stories. In Bristol they'd shop, cook, share their food and their stories. The progamme captured this special food event and a restaurant and menu that would exist for one night only.
Hear the wonders of Bulgarian Banitsa, the pleasures of a Turkish Karnıyarık and the delights of a two hour meal over Algerian cous-cous.
Producers: Dan Saladino and Hannah Briggs.
Transcript
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| 0:37.0 | He set fire to his sausages. |
| 0:42.0 | Probably panics about to break out. |
| 0:45.0 | We're about to serve 13 dishes. |
| 0:47.0 | This program is about a restaurant like no other, |
| 0:50.0 | a restaurant that opened for one night only. |
| 0:52.6 | The smells are amazing. |
| 0:54.4 | Isn't that beautiful colours? |
| 0:56.6 | In the kitchen were 13 cooks, all strangers and all from different food cultures. |
| 1:03.2 | It would be quite unusual to have so many different flavours in one meal altogether. |
| 1:09.2 | There are three continents in there and together they are very very tasty. It also helps to have |
| 1:16.6 | Bulgarian brownie. |
| 1:20.7 | You'll hear in a moment how and why this out of the ordinary menu was designed, but at its heart is an experiment to bring a group of strangers together, to learn and to share, not food but also food stories even some secrets. |
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