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UK slash radio four and now enjoy the podcast This week's story is an eye-opener.

Unfamiliar ingredients, good tasting food, and you can hear some being prepared here in this kitchen and a vision of how forgotten and

neglected ingredients in some of the most remote and challenging parts of the world can change lives. Last week we heard on the program how slaves from West

Africa had inspired the food of the American South. In this program we're going

to the source. Hearing how ingredients with delicious names,

Meringa, shea butter, and Beaab are being rediscovered

for a whole new world of flavors, forest foods.

And like crops that can be affected by lack of rent.

Trees, they can produce fruit all over the year.

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