You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.

Welcome to our world from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure.

We hope you enjoy it.

Next time you're walking down a lane, maybe you are right now as you listen.

Look at those leaves, the plants, some wild garlic, good King Henry maybe, just stop. And maybe rub those leaves if they're above

dog level. Smell your fingers and breathe it in deep. And if you're sure what you're dealing with, a big if, maybe have a nibble.

That scent, that taste is going to tap you into something.

The something that's the subject of this program, something ancient. into something

ancient, deeply rooted in these lands,

and something we nearly lost.

But now it's at the center of a new frontier of cooking and flavor in our kitchens at home and in some of the best restaurants in the world.

Now we're going to put on the little leafs of organo just on top.

I'm really overcome by this.

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