Follow the Food: The Rise of Food Tourism

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon investigates the growing number of food tours and trails in the UK as consumers show more and more interest in the provenance of what is on their plate. She heads to Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire – a town that boasts the title of Rural Capital Of Food - and joins a walking tour that spans pork pie producers, stilton sellers, a samosa wallah and a prizewinning brewery.

Produced by Robin Markwell for BBC Audio in Bristol

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0:41.2	Have you ever been on a food walk, trailing after food?
0:45.1	Was it a bit of a laugh and some good tastes, or perhaps something more?
0:50.1	I'm Sheila Dillon, and in this episode of the food program, we follow along and try to find out why thousands of us are now walking these trails.
1:02.0	So, we're going to taste something very special here.
1:06.0	We're going to be tasting smoked salmon that John, who you'll meet in a minute, smokes himself in the smoker, which he's got both the hot smoker and the cold smoker at the back.
1:14.6	Should we get you guys started on some cheese? Here's me talking about it.
1:18.6	So this one here is called Bosworth Field.
1:21.6	Talk in, if you have the cheese first, and then we've done a pairing.
1:26.6	So a couple minutes here, once we finish up with our barbecue pork belly bites, we're going to have a have the cheese first and then we've done a pairing.
1:31.1	So in a couple minutes here, once we finish up with our barbecue pork belly bites,
1:36.0	we're going to head over to a, from quite a meat-centric restaurant to a vegan deli next.
1:39.9	Trailing food in Bristol and Melton Mowbray,
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