What makes an excellent food producer?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to produce delicious food of the highest quality in the UK in 2019?

This year, it was the turn of chef, food writer, BBC TV presenter, and this year's head judge in the BBC Food and Farming Awards Angela Hartnett to find out. In this programme, Angela and Sheila Dillon spend a day with each of the finalists in the Best Food Producer category. Together, they visit three farms, in Cornwall, Herefordshire and Cumbria. Among the dedicated people they meet are Tanya the 'Duck Dabbler', a woman whose expertise in duck rearing are sought far and wide, Ed the 'first-time' farmer, working slowly and sustainably in the Black Mountains, and Martin whose dedication to making cheese extends even to the starter cultures themselves.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced by Clare Salisbury

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0:38.0	We're in Angela Hartnert's kitchen with a bewildering array of food that we've asked producers to send us
0:47.8	from our hundreds of nominations, cheeses and honey and pickles and a lot of meat and ducks and sausages and some
0:58.7	yoggy things what else butter there will be bread and we've got to try and get this down because we can only have three on the short list.
1:07.0	Oh, and I'm feeling overwhelmed.
1:12.0	What makes a really great food producer?
1:17.0	Well, first, you need to stand out in an increasingly competitive field.
1:22.0	The food being produced by people you
1:25.0	nominate in the BBC Food and Farming Awards really does get better and better
1:29.0	every year and in 2019 the competition astonished me.
1:35.0	In this program, you'll hear the lens each of the three finalists have gone to in order to make exceptional
1:42.2	food in an exceptional way.
1:45.0	Fortunately, I haven't had to judge alone.
1:48.0	This year, my prop and companion in finding the best of the best is chef Angela Hartnett.
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