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The Food Programme

Feeding the Detectives

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4977 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.

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And now, enjoy the podcast. In a lot of modern novels, it's difficult these days to write about sex without

0:58.9

it becoming other pornographic or just cliched, but you can do food.

1:03.0

Which is why we're about to head into unusual territory.

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It's a world of misdeeds, murder and mystery, where bullets Zing and figures lurk in dark shadows,

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and a world that's recently become full of characters obsessed with food.

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She often eats on the fly,

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which means that she spends a lot of money on dry cleaning

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because she's driving around town in her silk shirts, spilling

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chili dogs on them. Britain loves detective fiction. For more than a hundred

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