Food Stories of Roots and Roads

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino reports from Parabere Forum, a gathering of food storytellers, featuring Olia Hercules on the Ukrainian cooks who inspired her, indigenous Australian chef Mindy Woods on saving First Nations' cuisine and Palestinian writer Fidaa Abuhamdiya with a powerful story of olive trees and oil from the West Bank. Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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