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The Food Programme

Tom Jaine

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4976 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon talks to the publisher, writer and restaurateur Tom Jaine about his life. From his early days at 'The Hole in the Wall' in Bath to custody of his beloved 'Prospect Books' ("every book a brick in the wall of knowledge") and beyond. With contributions from Rick Stein, Joyce Molyneux and Tim Hayward.

Producer: Sarah Langan Photograph by Toby Coulson.

Transcript

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0:29.0

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0:35.0

I'm in Devon to meet someone.

0:40.0

Now I'm going to put the kettle on, that's the first thing.

0:42.8

Sally will settle you down on something.

0:44.8

Yes.

0:45.8

So what do I do about coffee?

0:47.8

Oh, it's in the cupboard.

0:48.8

Whose name may not mean a lot to you.

0:52.1

Anyway, I'm going to put sugar in mine and milk in mine.

0:55.0

But he's been, well, not a quiet influence.

0:58.0

No one who's ever met, Tom Jane, has described him as quiet.

1:02.0

But he's been a very English, confident, but also self-deprecating

1:07.3

influence on how we eat and think about food in Britain.

1:12.3

Working as a critic, scholar, editor, writer, publisher, restaurateur, and

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