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Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio Falls The Food Programme.

I'm Dan Saladino. Welcome to our world.

From cooking to culture, politics to pleasure.

We hope you enjoy this edition. The world's biggest food crop,

the one that takes up more land on earth than any other is also the oldest

cultivated plant we grow, wheat.

And as I'll be explaining in this program,

with a bit of a heavy cold, it's the most controversial, complicated

and beloved of all the foods we eat.

You'll know from your own experiences,

wheat became really complicated this year.

Remember those empty shells?

I looked on eBay and found that a one and a half kilo bag of flour which had normally cost just over a pound

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