The Legacy of the BBC Food and Farming Awards
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Dillon reports on how 15 years of the BBC Food and Farming Awards have captured the revolution in the streetfood business, witnessed the rise of a new generation of brewers and distillers, chronicled the rise of new types of food markets and marked major changes in the supermarket supply chain. Over the last decade and a half, through receiving thousands of nominations, the judges have been able to spot early on new ideas and changes in the UK's food culture. Sheila talks to judges past and present and former finalists and winners to describe the big shifts as seen through the awards.
Retail analyst and former judge Robert Clark and Policy Director of Sustain, Kath Dalmeny join Sheila to talk about key stories and innovative ideas they've encountered through the awards.
Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Rich Ward.
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| 0:58.6 | It's 2015 and in recent weeks teams of judges have been traveling all over the UK |
| 1:04.4 | meeting the game-changers the people with the stories who are making a real |
| 1:09.2 | difference to Britain through food and that cracklin Georgia was the cracklin was |
| 1:14.8 | amazing 10 years ago we didn't never think of something of that such a quality |
| 1:19.8 | served like that in the street. Well I'm just enchanted to see these tiny children tearing vegetables apart |
| 1:26.0 | and then cooking them themselves as if it is the most natural thing in the world. |
| 1:31.0 | It's fantastic. |
| 1:32.0 | It's 15 years since the BBC Food and Farming Awards were launched. |
| 1:36.0 | The awards calendar was less crowded then, but even in 2000, they were different. |
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