Who are the new generation shaking up the food system?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Who are the new voices pushing for change in the food system? Sheila Dillon hears from Alice Thompson of Social Bite, a charity that distributes over 100,000 hot drinks and meals to Scotland’s most vulnerable people every year from its sandwich shops and every Monday afternoon they invite people experiencing homelessness to their restaurant Vesta for a free sit-down two-course meal.

Sheila also meets Ben Adler who was the husband of TV producer Pat Llewellyn who made stars of the Two Fat Ladies and Gordon Ramsay and launched Jamie Oliver's TV career.

Pat died of metastatic breast cancer in October 2017 and we hear from Jamie Oliver about his memories of Pat and what made her so good at nurturing new talent.

To honour the impact Pat had on the food industry the Food and Farming Awards is launching a Pat Llewellyn New Talent Award. It will see Ben and his co-judge Barney Desmazery, Senior Food Editor at BBC Good Food, on the search for fresh voices in the food system who could be campaigners, innovative cooks and people taking a different approach to a food or drinks business.

To understand more about the types of people they might be looking for they met one of the strongest but lesser-known voices in the food system today. At Where The Light Gets In restaurant in Stockport they met founder Sam Buckley who is taking a new approach to every facet of running a restaurant with unflinching principles when it comes to responsibility for his staff and for the environment.

We also hear from last year's Food and Farming Awards winner Kimberley Bell and our Future Food Award judges entrepreneur William Kendall and the Oxford Cultural Collective's Don Sloan meet Safia Qureshi who is building an alternative to disposable cups with her business CupClub.

Producer: Tom Bonnett

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0:45.0	I sort of started like with this really concatitude and I want to bring more intellectual arguments to the table and I want to be more measured about it but we have to be
0:54.0	outspoken about these things. I think the people are directing certain systems on
0:58.3	this planet at the moment are outspoken, whether outspoken verbally or with money or the tool that they choose.
1:06.0	So we have to be outspoken but we pick our tools wisely.
1:09.0	We're outspoken by opening this restaurant.
1:12.0	Fundamentally, it's a belief that we are the food system that everybody needs to adopt.
1:16.0	We need to stop thinking of it as an other or something that's outside of our communities
1:21.0	and we need to start believing and understanding that we can create
1:25.2	our own food system.
1:26.6	I think the food industry leaders of our time need to be doing something different and
1:31.0	being bold about it.
1:33.0	Challenging voices in the food business, people unafraid to question the system
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