Scotland, a Good Food Nation?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Can Scotland become a nation where people from every walk of life ‘take pride and pleasure in the food they produce, buy, cook, serve, and eat each day’?

Sheila Dillon and her Scottish producer Robbie Armstrong assess the country’s health and food system, and find out what opportunities and hurdles lie ahead as the Good Food Nation Bill is introduced to the Scottish Parliament.

Sheila speaks to Scotland’s national chef Gary Maclean about the past, present and future of Scottish cuisine, while Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands Mairi Gougeon sets out what she hopes to achieve with the bill.

She meets Pete Ritchie from the food policy NGO Nourish to hear why he believes the bill does not go far enough and should include a ‘right to food’. She visits social enterprise food business Locavore to speak to its founder Reuben Chesters, before exploring the complexities of food poverty with author of Feed Your Family for £20 a Week, Lorna Cooper.

Robbie heads to his home town in the Scottish Borders to speak to Bosco Santimano from a social enterprise teaching basic cooking skills, and visits Food Punks, a project run by young chefs in the town of Peebles.

Produced by Robbie Armstrong in Glasgow.

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0:57.3	My wheatley shop cost me 20 quids.
0:59.2	Today I bought celery and some salad stuff. I bought peppers for my Cajun
1:04.8	Spiced rice about baby spinach for my soup eggs mushrooms a whole chicken there one of the
1:10.9	basics one's it's 2 pound 66. That's cheap food from a
1:15.8	woman who knows how to turn bargains into good meals, Lorna Cooper. Her first book
1:21.9	Feed Your Family for 20 pounds a week, published in 2018, was a bestseller. We'll hear more from her in a minute. You're listening to the food program, that place for hungry minds.
1:33.4	Today we're in Scotland, for a long time the sick man of Europe,
1:38.2	but now working on legislation that aims to change that painfully earned reputation.
1:44.7	Life expectation is still lower here, obesity higher, and diet-related diseases even more common
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