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🗓️ 3 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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As summer draws to a close, Jaega Wise heads to the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) to learn what goes into feeding the thousands of fans gathered for the Green Man festival. Over the past 20 years or so, the food at music festivals has evolved from mostly burgers, chips and noodles, to an array of traders cooking foods from all over the world, sit-down banquets, and chefs on the line up.
So what has driven this change, and can it continue to thrive while the cost of everything involved in producing it has risen so much? What has the evolution of better festival food meant for sustainability? And what do you do if you don’t want to spend a fortune on food at a festival, but still want to eat well? Comedian George Egg has some answers.
Presented by Jaega Wise Produced in Bristol for BBC Audio by Natalie Donovan
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0:38.0 | In this episode of the food program, I get a look behind the curtain at the food served at music festivals. You'll get to see how it's all changed, |
0:46.7 | the ups, the downs for the vendors, the promoters and the festival goers. I hope you enjoy this episode. The summer is coming to an end and |
0:58.1 | it's been a very British summer weather-wise, hasn't it? For a lot of people it's |
1:02.1 | back to business as usual after COVID |
1:04.6 | cancelled so much. People have been taking holidays, trips away and of course going |
1:10.1 | to music festivals. Hundreds are held every year, but while we often picture crowds |
1:15.8 | of people standing in front of huge lit up stages, we perhaps don't think about all the effort |
1:21.8 | that goes into catering these massive events and what it |
1:25.0 | takes to feed so many people on mass. I'm standing in a beautiful garden in |
1:30.6 | Wiltshire which will be the setting of the End of the Road Festival, which takes place this weekend. |
1:36.8 | It's an onnet space with trees, shrubs and even a few peacocks. The festival is in setup mode. |
1:43.4 | Marquise are going up, stages are being built, and trucks are bringing in supplies. |
1:48.8 | I'm here though to meet the man whose job it is to keep the festival goers well fed. |
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