The Awards Return

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The BBC Food and Farming Awards are back for 2023 and now is the time to get nominating.

This year the judging will be lead by former Masterchef winner, and founder of the Mexican restaurant chain, Thomasina Miers.

In this programme, Jaega Wise meets Thomasina at one of her London restaurants to discuss how she plans to approach judging, and she chats to Sheila Dillon about how the awards came about, and why she believes they are still so vital.

This year the awards will all have a climate first theme, plus listen out for an announcement of a brand new award for 2023.

You can nominate people and businesses you know and love for the BBC Food & Farming Awards, just visit bbc.co.uk/foodawards where you can also find the terms and privacy notice. Nominations close 19 June at 23:59

Presented by Jaega Wise Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the
0:03.8	podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.
0:08.6	It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.
0:15.3	What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism
0:19.8	and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.
0:23.7	And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject
0:28.4	you might not even have thought you were interested in.
0:30.2	Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,
0:36.1	you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.
0:39.8	In this episode of the Food Programme, we launched the BBC Food and Farming Awards.
0:45.3	This is a national competition where we search for some of the very best food and drinks producers
0:50.9	across the UK.
0:52.3	We hope you enjoy this program.
0:54.0	Hey guys!
0:57.0	Hi, Jager, it's you.
1:00.0	Hey there, sorry I'm late guys, I've just
1:02.0	a deserve a shame from... Oh no,, I've just serviced home from...
1:03.0	Oh no, well, we've just put the world to rights, it's fun.
1:05.0	Have you?
1:07.0	Yeah, it's wonderful.
1:08.0	Our talents are wasted on one half-out program, we think.
1:12.0	What you're listening to is a video call recorded just a few weeks ago.
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