The Food Books of 2022

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon and guests come together at Cherry Tree Library in Blackburn to discuss this year's best food books. From recipes and biographies, to food history and policy - there are choices for everyone to put on their Christmas lists, or.. check out from the library!

Cherry Tree in Blackburn like most libraries has a wealth of food books to delve into, but unlike most libraries it also has its own honey producing beehives. Local comedian and author Tez Ilyas pops in to see what books he might like to help on his next venture of learning how to cook.

While Jamie Oliver, Asma Khan, Tim Spector and many others who have featured during this year's programmes tell us what have been their food books of the year.

If you would like to recommend a food or drink book - join the conversation on social media. We are @BBCFoodProg on Instagram and Twitter. And a copy of all the books mentioned has been donated to the library in Cherry Tree.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

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0:59.7	Oh yeah, yeah, definitely have a special place for cookbooks.
1:02.4	They've got to be close to the table. They've got to be close to the
1:03.4	table, they've got to be close to the kitchen, so that's where they are. I have a
1:07.5	preferential book shelf and I have another book shelf, but this is definitely in that
1:11.9	book shelf which is very small next to my bed.
1:15.0	So I keep them all in my wagon. So I live on the road and above my bed I've got a huge sort of
1:20.6	collection. We travel a lot as well, so there's different sections for each
1:24.6	culture. So that my Mexican section is getting bigger and that sort of slits in with all of
1:30.1	them and yeah it's another string to the bow.
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