Summary
Portugal is coming off the green list for foreign travel from Tuesday. So, if you want to go abroad anytime soon (without having to quarantine when you're back) your options are pretty limited. The BBC’s Caroline Davies and Nick Beake explain what’s going on.
And if we can’t go to Portugal so easily, at least one Portuguese person can come to us! Yes, we’ve rolled out the red carpet for our first ever in-person guest on Newscast… The EU’s ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Daniel Wittenberg, Ben Cooper and Rick Kelsey. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The editor is Dino Sofos.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello. |
| 0:07.8 | Love the sound of ketchup in the evening. |
| 0:10.2 | And ketchup is coming home because Heinz, the makers of the famous red sauce, have announced |
| 0:16.1 | that they're going to start making it again at their plant just outside Wigan. |
| 0:20.0 | The first time it will have been |
| 0:21.3 | manufactured there since 1999. And this is part of a 140 million pound investment that also |
| 0:28.0 | includes the manufacture of salad cream. Saying salad cream in a radio studio just makes me laugh for |
| 0:34.8 | some reason. Not that I say it a lot. But believe it or not, there is actually a Heinz tomato ketchup cookbook, which has been written by the chef, Paul Hartley, |
| 0:44.2 | who's with us now. Hello, Paul. Good afternoon. Nice to talk to you. Now, Paul, looking at the |
| 0:49.1 | ingredients on the back of this bottle, it's tomatoes, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt, spice, herb extracts containing celery |
| 0:56.4 | and spice, which actually sounds like a pretty simple recipe. Can you give a supported history |
| 1:01.7 | of all of this? I can indeed. Originally it came from China and it was a fermented fish |
| 1:09.4 | sauce and it came over on the big sailing cutters and things, arrived in America and they found |
| 1:16.9 | it not to their taste. |
| 1:18.8 | So they took some of the wonderful Californian sunripe tomatoes and added to it. |
| 1:24.4 | And gradually they got rid of all the fish sauce. |
| 1:27.2 | And dear old Mr. Hines gave up his love of |
| 1:29.6 | horseradish, which was his main product, and took on what was called Kitsup and he called it |
| 1:35.9 | ketchup, tomato ketchup. It was about 1886 when the first bottle of ketchup was produced and the |
| 1:43.6 | whole universe have loved it ever since. |
| 1:46.4 | How did they corner the market and take over the world with this particular brand? |
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