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US Southern Cooking BBC (was The food programme bbc)
"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r09t0
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> 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.
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> Fascinating stuff )
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