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Love British Food is a national organisation working at grassroots and industry level to make good food available to all. British Food Fortnight and the National Harvest Service are just a few of the events under pinned by working groups of industry experts from universities, schools, hospitals and care catering. This podcast is an opportunity to hear from those at the front line of producing and delivering sustainable supply chains in communities across the country. So many people have a st ...
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Welcome to this special edition of the Love British Food Podcast, inspired by the Farmer's Rally in London which Love British Food's Founder, Alexia Robinson and our Resident Farmer, Sam Mallinson attended on November 19th 2024. Thanks to all those who contributed to this episode, they are in order of appearance in the episode: Sam Mallinson - Malb…
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00:00 Introduction 00:42 Sam's farming update 08:11 Graham Collie, executive chef at King's College, London 11:09 Graham's letter to wholesalers urging easy procurement of UK produce 12:16 Spotlight on public sector catering 22:07 Wholesalers important role in British food production 29:00 Ben Bartlett's November food focus 31:28 Ending notes…
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Don't forget, British Food Fortnight runs from 20th September to 6th October. For more information on how you can get involved, visit our website at Love British Food. Links Malbro Farms - https://malbrofarms.com/ Love British Food - lovebritishfood.co.uk OCS - https://ocs.com/uk/ Pie Challenge - https://www.lovebritishfood.co.uk/great-british-pie-…
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This episode was recorded at the Great Yorkshire Show and Royal Lancashire Show. The featured interview is with Bob Doherty from Fix Our Food who chats to Derek about educating Yorkshire’s children and beyond, regeneration farming and farmers and the public sector. The interview is followed by short clips from the many food producers who exhibited …
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On this month's episode Derek Wright chats to Matt White OBE. Matt has had an extensive career in university catering and also leads the public sector catering alliance as well as being heavily involved in TUCO, a leading industry body supporting in-house catering. Listen to Derek and Matt discuss how he managed to embed British food on the menus a…
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In this month's episode listen to host Derek Wright’s conversation with Chris Ross from Edinburgh City Council about how local authorities deliver catering across the Highlands and Islands. We discuss the challenges they face with being so remote, the many unique suppliers they work with, the food standard within schools in Scotla…
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This episode focuses on education catering and Derek Wright is joined by Rob Cass from the Academy at OCS, Katherine Breckon development and training chef at North Yorkshire Council and Jacquie Blake OBE and former Chair of the Local Authority Caterers Association. They discuss their work within education catering, why they care about sourcing Brit…
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Join the journey of the Love British Food podcast with host Derek Wright. In this opening episode, we hear from founder, Alexia Robinson as we uncover the campaign's 22-year history and its mission to bolster British food security through robust domestic markets. Learn about the heroes championing British cuisine in schools to a conversation with T…
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This podcast is an opportunity to hear from those at the front line of producing and delivering sustainable British food supply chains in communities across the country. So many people have a story to tell and experiences to share - all united by a passion to reinvigorate our food system and get British food back onto the menu. We will be talking t…
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