Just to let you know about this week's interesting programme on BBC Radio4's "The Food Programme".
Programme details Sunday 31 July 2005 Sheila Dillon wonders if we are losing our ability to shop for food. There was a time when it wasn't unusual to pop into the local greengrocer's for a punnet of freshly picked raspberries or a bag of earth-encrusted potatoes, straight from the ground. But with many of our local shops and specialist food outlets disappearing from the high street, Sheila Dillon wonders, are we losing our ability to shop for food?
Sheila talks to members of the WI about their changing experiences of food shopping in Britain.
Local food vs. Supermarkets 174A number of responses to below: The "fantasised world" of people moving to the country to get a better lifestyle? There was this thing called the...
Travelling to East Suffolk, Sheila discovers one of the few areas in Britain with a thriving network of local food producers and small shops. She meets farmer Caroline Cranbrook and visits a number of small businesses in the area, including a bakery, a dairy that bottles its own milk, makes yoghurt as well as ice-cream and a pig farm producing its own sausages, roasts and home-cured bacon.
Local food vs. Supermarkets 173Following up to Enrico C that's the fantasised world of when women stayed at home and joined the WI, when the civil service made women retire when they married...
In the studio, Sheila is joined by Dan Keech from Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming and Terry Marsden, Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning at the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, to discuss whether it is possible to 'plan' for better food? =====================================================
