The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2018: Finalist stories
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
You know their names, now Sheila Dillon helps tell the stories of the finalists in the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2018. For the last month, our judges, including Tim Hayward, Andi Oliver, Tom Parker-Bowles and Romy Gill have travelled the length and breadth of the UK to meet this year's finalists.
In this programme, our judges meet a Northern Irish farmer who went from never trying salami to producing award winning charcuterie in a year. They visit a local deli and cafe owned by a fisherman who has spent his life catching eels and salmon on the Severn. And speak to the founders of a brewery devoted to making great tasting beers with less than 0.5% alcohol.
In the first of two editions of The Food Programme, we celebrate our BBC Food and Farming Awards 'school of 2018'.
Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
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| 0:56.2 | Well it's a beautiful sunny day in late April and I'm sitting with a glass of Mandarin juice. I've never had Mandarin juice before. |
| 1:06.2 | It's the most delicious thing. In a sourdough bakery in the East Midlands and you might remember that the last time we talked Food and Farming Awards |
| 1:16.1 | was back on a bone-chilling day on a Shropshire farm in January. We were |
| 1:21.8 | looking at their bean harvest but we've moved on now, so from |
| 1:25.9 | seeds as beans to grain and loaves. And in this program, I want to introduce you to this year's finalists, the BBC Food and Farming |
| 1:35.5 | Award class of 2018. |
| 1:38.6 | Because over the last few weeks, my fellow judges and I have been traveling all over the UK. |
| 1:45.0 | We're trying to find out in what ways they're making this country a better and a more delicious place. |
| 1:55.0 | One of the first pieces of the base we got was make everything the best you can. |
| 1:59.0 | And bread took over our lives by accident. |
| 2:02.0 | It seems rash now, but I'm convinced food retail can be changed |
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