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Default US Southern Cooking BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r09t0

US Southern Cooking and Chef Sean Brock Johnson is in South Carolina to
meet Charleston chef, Sean Brock, who is on a mission to revive ingredients
and flavours not experienced for hundreds of years.
It's a story that involves an intricate "food tattoo", one of America's
biggest private seed collections, a hog roast and "pick picking" and bowls
of delicious peas, beans, rice, grits and fried chicken.
Soon after British settlers arrived in South Carolina in the 17th
century a cuisine called the "Carolina rice kitchen" was formed. Using the
expertise of West African slaves to develop rice plantations, a larder
evolved consisting of the main crop along with beans, African vegetables and
staples like oats, rye and wheat from Britain.
Chef Sean Brock believes it was one of the earliest, and "most
beautiful" food cultures in America. In his mid-thirties and sporting an arm
covered in tattoos of heirloom vegetables, he's attempting to "reboot" that
cuisine and those ingredients which had all disappeared by the 20th century.
He's joined forces with historian David Shields and a seed hunter, Glenn
Roberts, to source, grow and cook with these historic foods.
Richard joins Sean Brock at his restaurant, Husk to hear why "ridiculous
flavour" is the driving force behind the mission.

Fascinating stuff)

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