Taste the Music and Dance
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dan Saladino reports from the Taste The World stage of the world music festival Womad.
In 2006 a director of the festival Annie Menter had the idea of asking musicians if they could tell food stories from their home country and cook a dish linked to their food culture.
More than a decade on it's become a format that used at Womad events all over the world, providing fascinating and delicious insights into the connections between food and music and the evolution of dishes around the world.
Find out what happens when you mix Turkish psychedelia with dumplings and what a Yoik served with Sami bread involves.
The artists and their food. Anandi Bhattacharya (Bengal, India) Chicken Rezala. Nimba, (West Africa), Fish in peanut sauce Rura (Scotland) Cullen Skink and Mince and Tatties. Marja Mortensson (Norway) Sami stew with Sami bread. Baba Zula (Turkey) Manti beef dumplings Maija Kauhanen (Finland) Blueberry Pie.
Presented and produced by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:51.4 | In front of us is a stage filled with musicians and a kitchen. |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome all of you at the back there and down the front and hello newcomers. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the most extraordinary stage in the entire world. |
| 1:08.0 | It really is. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.0 | If you fancy a little dance just now is the time let's see on your feet. |
| 1:17.0 | Here we go! |
| 1:19.0 | This edition comes from Womad Taste the World stage, on which performers from around the world The The idea of being in the kitchen of a set of musicians with them chatting and playing and seeing and then eating together. It's absolutely magical. |
| 1:40.0 | The host of this annual event is Roger DeWulf and |
| 1:46.2 | during or in between songs. He talks to the artists as they chop, |
| 1:51.4 | fry, grill and bake. |
| 1:54.0 | First you do the dough and it's actually here. |
| 1:57.0 | Ta da! |
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