Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In a two part special Valentine Warner and Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson swap food stories from their own very different food cultures.
Magnus Nilsson comes from the hunting culture of northern Sweden, a region called Jamtland. The long, harsh winters and shorter but still intense summers, inform this now world famous chef's work. Valentine Warner has a lifelong passion for seasonal cooking and sourcing ingredients from the wild.
In part one, Valentine invites Magnus to venture into woodland in east Sussex woods to search for British wild boar.
In southern England indigenous wild boar populations were wiped out generations ago, but in recent years, after farmed boar escaped into the wild, measures have had to be put in place to control pockets where a new population has been outgrowing their habitat.
Valentine and Magnus meet Simon Barr, an experienced hunter, and the man licensed to control a population of boar on the Sussex and Kent border to share a food experience long disappeared, to hunt and cook a British wild boar.
In part two, Valentine travels to Jamtland to experience a food story Magnus is determined to share.
Producer: Dan Saladino.
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| 1:01.0 | about 70 yards in front of me is a ball snuffling around and if I sit tight it's almost |
| 1:08.0 | guaranteed to the few more work in a tunnel. |
| 1:11.0 | There is a ball in the British woods. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm taking the food program into the wild and on a search for lost food. |
| 1:19.0 | Our guide in this adventure is a man who knows more than most about both of these things. |
| 1:24.0 | We're exciting just like literally three meters below my feet. |
| 1:28.0 | One of them passed by her. |
| 1:30.0 | I imagine that they came in under our scent, that our scent had descending yet to the wind. |
| 1:35.0 | Like me, 15 foot up a tree, hidden in the darkness of a Sussex wood, |
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