Our Wild Spice Rack

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon heads to Galloway, Scotland, to meet forager and wild food teacher Mark Williams - who claims to be able to match anything in our spice racks with flavours found in the wild, in the UK. Can he assemble a 'native spice rack'? What might a 'wild Scottish curry' taste like?

Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Rich Ward.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.4	Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.
0:08.4	Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy it.
0:16.2	Here it is. This is what we're after.
0:19.2	You're actually shearing it.
0:21.2	Yep, give it a little snip. Quite tricky. I need a
0:23.8	smell, a pair of nail scissors or something here. It's a bit like giving a
0:27.3	a rock a haircut and this is it.
0:29.9	All right so that's the pepper. Yeah, there's your pepper.
0:32.6	The pepper isn't what first hits you, it's the
0:35.2	miner that hits you.
0:36.6	Yes.
0:37.6	So this is... pepper dolts.
0:39.1	This is a little brown seaweed that's clinging to these wind-bashed rocks and it's no more than about what
0:46.1	a centimeter long and yeah just trimming it off the rocks and eating it straight from the
0:50.6	rock.
0:51.6	Seriously difficult harvesting. Yeah. Well it's it's early morning the rock. Seriously difficult harvesting.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	Well, it's early morning, the sun's coming up, the full moon is still out.
0:58.7	It's utterly beautiful.
0:59.7	I thought we'd be here in the driving rain because it was driving rain last night. So where
1:04.1	exactly are we? We're on the Karak shore just near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfreeson Galloway,
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