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A Food Museum – can it make us care about food?

Sheila Dillon visits the new Food Museum in Stowmarket, to find out how they are telling the story of food and where it comes from, past, present and future.

If food is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and also a lens through which we can interpret our history and how we live now, then surely it deserves a museum? The UK has only just got its first permanent Food Museum. It’s in Stowmarket in Suffolk, recently rebranded from The Museum of East Anglian Life. Sheila Dillon visits its beautiful 84 acres, with its historic buildings, crops, orchard, kitchen garden, water mill and animals to find out how the museum team are reinterpreting its collections to connect people to where our food comes from.

Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audio in Bristol

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Mon 28 Aug 2023 15:30
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