Feasting, fasting, hospitality, and food security
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Author Priya Basil and curator Victoria Avery look at food, fasting and feeding guests. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is their host as the FitzWilliam Museum in Cambridge opens an exhibition and Priya Basil publishes reflections on hospitality which link the free meals offered to all which is part of Sikhism to food clubs in Germany which have welcomed refugees. Maia Elliott of the UK's Global Food Security programme, describes her work to try to make future food supply more reliable for all. She describes her own food habits and the possible ways all of our diets might have to change in the future. Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity is out now.
Feast & Fast: The art of food in Europe, 1500 –1800 runs at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge until April 26th 2020 and features food creations and sugarwork from food historian Ivan Day.
Global Food Security publish their research here: https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/
You can hear more discussions about food by searching for Free Thinking Food to hear philosopher Barry Smith and critic Alex Clark with Matthew Sweet https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn51y The Working Lunch and Food in History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7my5n New Generation Thinkers Food: We Are What We Eat a Radio 3 Essay from Christopher Kissane which looks at Spanish Inquisition stews & Reformation sausages to pork in French school meals https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07xhr60 Healthy Eating Edwardian Style - an Essay from Elsa Richardson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p075d3hy
Producer: Alex Mansfield
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| 0:32.0 | Hello, you. |
| 0:32.9 | This is the BBC Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | And in this one, we're gouging on the history of feeding, fasting, |
| 0:39.2 | hospitality and the future of our food production as the climate crisis takes hold. But before that, |
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| 1:27.9 | Hello, when did you last eat? Were you alone or in company? |
| 1:32.8 | Did you cook or were you cooked for? |
| 1:35.2 | And how far away were you from the farm where the food was produced? |
| 1:39.9 | Today, a taste of how society is reflected in the food we eat |
| 1:43.8 | and how the food we eat is shaped by the culture and ecology in which we live. |
| 1:49.6 | Priya Basil was born in London of Indian Heritage, grew up in Kenya and now lives in Berlin. |
| 1:55.9 | Author and activist, her latest book is Be My Guest, Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of |
| 2:02.3 | Generosity. Vicky Avery is based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She's the co-curator |
| 2:08.7 | of a new exhibition, Feast and Fast, The Art of Food in Europe, 1500 to 1800. When we met, I started |
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