Terra Madre
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Food stories from across the world. Dan Saladino travels to Terra Madre 2014 in Turin. It is a global movement of farmers and food producers which attracts the attention of world leaders - from Michelle Obama to Pope Francis.
Last month, 250,000 people from 160 countries gathered at a former Olympic venue in Turin to taste and celebrate diverse foods and to discuss and debate the issues affecting the world's food.
Jamie Oliver shows Dan around the Ark of Taste - a collection of 2,000 traditional foods which are in danger of extinction. Edie Mukiibi, Vice President of Slow Food International, explains the impact of the project 10,000 Food Gardens in Africa.
Northern Irish chef Paula McIntyre cooks with chefs from Uganda. Dr Geoff Andrews from The Open University explains the political roots of Terra Madre. And Richard McCarthy tells Dan about projects from Slow Food USA - including 'nose-to-tailgating'.
Presented by Dan Saladino and produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism. |
| 0:08.9 | In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero? |
| 0:16.2 | Simply doing your job, being a decent human being. |
| 0:20.0 | A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by |
| 0:23.1 | their own light and that light is to be recognized by others. The long history of heroism |
| 0:27.8 | with me, Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Albania. |
| 0:38.3 | Inside Turin's former Olympic Stadium, an incredible sight is unfolding. I'm in a crowd of thousands, |
| 0:46.3 | and we're looking down at a procession of people carrying their national flags. |
| 0:50.3 | 160 different countries are about to pass by. |
| 1:00.1 | It has the look and feel of an Olympic ceremony, but the people holding the flags aren't athletes. |
| 1:03.6 | They're farmers, cheesemakers, fishermen and cooks. |
| 1:10.1 | This is the opening ceremony for what must be one of the most audacious and ambitious food ideas ever conceived. |
| 1:12.8 | A simple idea, but a fantastical month to bring together ingredients, foods and flavours and the people behind them into one place. |
| 1:19.6 | And so each of the flags that passes by is representing a culture and a tradition, and they're |
| 1:25.3 | here because they're facing extinction. |
| 1:27.9 | Okanagan First Nation. |
| 1:30.5 | There are spice-trading Bedouin tribesmen who've travelled here from the edges of desert, |
| 1:34.8 | standing next to cheesemakers from Europe's remote mountain pastures. |
| 1:39.0 | It's called Terramadre, an event, but as we'll hear it's also a global network. Now in its 10th year, |
| 1:46.4 | it's part festival, part conference, a celebration and a meeting place. Foods from around the world |
| 1:52.0 | will be shared and tasted, and the most pressing issues affecting them, discussed and debated. |
| 1:57.7 | International meetings about food happen all the time, of course, from world trade |
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