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Richard Peake CEO Merchant Gourmet
Duration: 44 minutes
Richard Peake, CEO Merchant Gourmet, on inspiring and simplifying food prep for foodies with pulses and grains in an ever expanding range of flavours and formats
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Chef Paul Ainswoth - one of the most highly awarded chefs in the UK, talks about the creation of his wide range of restaurants and a new cookbook.
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Danni Malone, Chief Network Officer at the Trussell Trust, talks food banks and the need for change
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When Ludwig Zamenhof invented Esperanto in 1887 his goal was for humans to communicate in a common language so peace and international understanding could be fostered regardless of regional or national tongues. Perhaps he was not aware that a lingua franca already existed and it is called beer.
When tasting beer describing it as having coffee, treacle, and liquorice flavours, or crisp and light body with subtle herbal aroma and soft biscuit malt character is not unusual now but before the mid-1980s there was no tasting vocabulary for beer.
Barrel aged beer – three words that shiver my timbers! I still remember distinctly the first time I had Innis & Gunn Oak Aged Beer (now known as Innis & Gunn The Original). As befits a beer brewed in Scotland, it was matured in former whisky barrels.
