Food, Identity & Nation

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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FOOD, IDENTITY AND NATION - At a time when many of us are feeling overstuffed by festive eating, Laurie Taylor asks why food matters. He’s joined by Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, who explores food’s relationship to our sense of self, as well as to inequality and the environment. Joy Fraser, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, also joins the conversation. She asks why Scottishness has so often been signified, in a derogatory way, through food - from haggis to the deep-fried Mars bar. Does it say something about the relationship between England and Scotland?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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0:36.8	This is a Thinking Loud Podcasts from the BBC and for more details and much, much more about thinking aloud, go to our website at BBC.co. UK.
0:47.1	Hello shall we eat?
0:50.1	Boil beef and carrots!
0:52.1	Boil beef and garons! Boil Beef and Darons,
0:54.0	That's a dump for your dog be gel,
0:56.0	Makes you bet and it keeps you well don't live like vegetarian.
1:00.0	Harri Champion back in 19009 celebrating Boilbee fan carrots.
1:06.0	Don't live like vegetarians on the stuff they give to parrots.
1:09.9	It's not easy to find other songs that so concretely reference the delight of specific foodstuffs.
1:16.7	Songs about the pleasures of eating so often turn out to me, well, metaphorical celebrations of sex.
1:25.0	Consider, for example example Julia Lee's Spinish song, I didn't like it the first time. Is this perhaps one sign among
1:30.4	others at the unique significance of food in our present and past lives
1:35.0	has been consistently underplayed, rendered banal, not accorded its proper contemporary or historical weight.
1:42.0	Well that's the central contention of a new book
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