Jane Grigson - A Tribute: Part One
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jane Grigson was a unique and pioneering voice in food writing; a self-taught cook whose books and journalism changed British food culture. Twenty-five years after her death, Sheila Dillon is joined by three special guests to explore her life, food and legacy.
This is part one of a special two-part edition of The Food Programme, recorded in front of an audience at Bristol Food Connections festival on the 4th of May.
On stage with Sheila is Geraldene Holt, food writer, author of 'Diary of a French Herb Garden' and Chair of the Jane Grigson Trust, the award-winning chef Shaun Hill who has cooked his way through Jane's books and also cooked for her, as well James Beard-nominated author, Telegraph food columnist and cook Diana Henry.
From 'The Fruit Book' to 'Good Things' to 'Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery', to her long running articles for The Observer, Sheila Dillon and her guests explore a voice that, despite gradually becoming less familiar, really does still matter today.
Readings by Kerry Elkins.
Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Rich Ward.
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| 0:51.0 | This week we're paying tribute to a food writer whose influence is still felt today in the way many of us cook and think about food. |
| 1:00.0 | When Jane Griggson died 25 years ago in 1990, age 62, |
| 1:05.0 | she left behind a body of work written in a unique and enduring voice, |
| 1:10.0 | whose size and depth belied the just over 20 years of its making. |
| 1:15.0 | It's that work which we'll be exploring in today's edition |
| 1:19.0 | and continuing in tomorrow's, from her long-running observer column to her groundbreaking books in the 1960s, 70s and |
| 1:27.0 | 80s. Covering subjects as diverse as vegetables, chakutary, fruit, and English food, not a fashionable subject in 1974. |
| 1:37.3 | We'll be hearing how she influenced generations of home cooks, chefs and writers, but her name has gradually become less familiar, |
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