BBC Food was the name of the BBC's international commercial television channel focusing solely on food until it was replaced in the television markets it was broadcast by BBC Lifestyle. The channel was owned and operated by BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm.
The channel launched in June 2002 and was available in southern Africa and parts of Scandinavia. While much of the programming was from the BBC, having been shown on other outlets elsewhere, other content from other providers was included in the scheduling.
Well known chefs who have appeared on the channel with their respective programmes have included:
A similar service operates within the UK and Ireland called Good Food, a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive.
BBC Food was phased out in Africa in September 2008, and in Scandinavia in December 2008. The channel was replaced by the new BBC Lifestyle. The BBC Food website was also closed.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
The BBC is a semi-autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament.
Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online. Though sharing some of the facilities of the domestic services, particularly for news and current affairs output, the World Service has a separate Managing Director, and its operating costs have historically been funded mainly by direct grants from the British government. These grants were determined independently of the domestic licence fee and were usually awarded from the budget of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As such, the BBC's international content has traditionally represented – at least in part – an effective foreign policy tool of the British Government. The recent BBC World Service spending review has announced plans for the funding for the world service to be drawn from the domestic licence fee.
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.
Historically, people secured food through two methods: hunting and gathering, and agriculture. Today, most of the food energy consumed by the world population is supplied by the food industry.
Food safety and food security are monitored by agencies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Food Information Council. They address issues such as sustainability, biological diversity, climate change, nutritional economics, population growth, water supply, and access to food.
The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), recognizing the "right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food", as well as the "fundamental right to be free from hunger".
Raymond Blanc OBE (born 19 November 1949) is a French chef, born in Besançon, France. Today he is one of the Britain's most respected chefs[citation needed]. Blanc is the owner and chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the Good Food Guide. He is entirely self-taught.
Blanc was born in Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, between Burgundy and the Jura mountains. While his two sisters were taught to cook by the influential Maman Blanc, his father taught Blanc and his two brothers to work in the kitchen garden. His father gave him a calendar and foraging map for his 10th birthday, and what he collected his mother taught him to cook.
Training as a waiter, he worked at the Michelin-starred Le Palais de la Bière in Besançon. Fired in 1972 for upsetting the head chef (Blanc offered him advice on how to cook), the manager knew of a job in England.
Not speaking English well enough to survive without a notepad, he was dispatched to The Rose Revived in Newbridge, Oxfordshire, arriving three days after arriving in Dover in his Renault 5 Gordini. Blanc married the owner's daughter Jenny, and the couple had two sons.
Anjum Anand (born 15 August 1971 in London, England) is a British Indian food writer and TV chef of Indian cuisine.
Anjum Anand, of Scottish-Indian descent, grew up in London but has also lived and studied in Geneva, Paris, and Madrid. She speaks French and Spanish, holds a degree in European business administration from the European Business School London, and for a period ran a business importing flat-pack furniture from eastern Europe. She has worked in the kitchens of hotel restaurants including at Café Spice in New York, as a waitress in Park Royal Hotel in New Delhi, and for Tommy Tang at Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles.
Her perspective on adapting healthy meals from a traditionally rich Indian diet came from personal experience of weight problems while growing up. Her diet consists of varied traditional dishes, recreated with wholesome ingredients and limited oil. At age 25 her first book Indian Every Day: Light Healthy Indian Food was published.
Anand became a regular guest on UKTV Food's Great Food Live from 2004 to 2007, and featured in the BBC Two series Indian Food Made Easy broadcast in 2007. Her accent and flirtatious manner have led to her being dubbed "the Nigella Lawson of Indian cuisine in Britain". Reacting to descriptions of herself as "television's tastiest chef", she finds it "preposterous".
But the land was already claimed by a people
When the cowboy came and when the soldiers came
The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways
A story of tragedy, like that day at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Big Foot was an Indian chief
Of the Minneconjou band
A band of Minneconjou Sioux
From South Dakota land
Big Foot said to Custer
"Stay away from Crazy Horse"
But Custer crossed into Sioux land
And he never came back across
Then Big Foot led his people
To a place called Wounded Knee
And they found themselves surrounded
By the 7th Cavalry
Big chief Big Foot
Rise up from your bed
Minneconjou babies cry
For their mothers lying dead
Big Foot was down with a fever
When he reached Wounded Knee
And his people all were prisoners
Of the 7th Cavalry
Two hundred women and children
And another hundred men
Raised up a white flag of peace
But peace did not begin
An accidental gunshot
And Big Foot was first to die
And over the noise of the rifles
You could hear the babies cry
Big chief Big Foot
It's good that you can't see
Revenge is being wrought
By Custer's 7th Cavalry
Then smoke hung over the canyon
On that cold December day
All was death and dying
Around where Big Foot lay
Farther on up the canyon
Some had tried to run and hide
But death showed no favorites
Women, men, and children died
One side called it a massacre
The other a victory
But the white flag is still waving
Today at Wounded Knee
Big chief Big Foot
Your Minneconjou band
Is more than remembered here
Chorus:
Girl, I can see that pig feet hanging off your pants.
I'mma ., I'mma give you one more chance to get a thing to me!
Already know I don't play no games,
Make a point on the game got no shame
Is a three o'clock in the morning,
You're on your way to my bed,.
.and let me hit you with the...
.to get you with the music!
.staying with me
Woman, don't be playing with me
.talking on the phone you need to be laying with me
. I'm just gonna rape your kidneys...
See, he can't go so deep,
Cause he's a little man
. I mean a little man!
What you're breaking, what you're smoking child?
Loosen up and prepare yourself for this poking, Shawty!
Chorus:
Girl, I can see that pig feet hanging off your pants.
I'mma ., I'mma give you one more chance to get a thing to me!
Already know I don't play no games,
Make a point on the game got no shame
Is a three o'clock in the morning,
You're on your way to my bed,.
.and let me hit you with the...
I could take you to the movies,
But I rather take you to my crib
Let me touch you on your booty,
Girl you know what this is!
Girl, we waited all week, so we should do it
Baby, don't be a tease!
Give it to me, girl, you gotta go all...
Let me get a bite to it!
I don't wanna be rude,
But all I'm thinking about is sleeping you
Is nothing else I rather do
But get you back to my room
I don't mean to be rude,
But all I'm thinking about is sleeping you
Is nothing else I rather do
But get you back to my room
Chorus:
Girl, I can see that pig feet hanging off your pants.
I'mma ., I'mma give you one more chance to get a thing to me!
Already know I don't play no games,
Make a point on the game got no shame
Is a three o'clock in the morning,
You're on your way to my bed,.
.and let me hit you with the...
Well, is looking ...between your legs...
What the boss want? My muscles tight up...
I'll be digging deeper than a ...
I'm trying to make the back of my...
So leave that vibrator in your purse,
Cause we don't need that
.baby, you will have to.
.giving to you the way you're supposed to be having it
I'm a gangsta freak, I got...
.and when you're don you can't put it back together...
Chorus:
Girl, I can see that pig feet hanging off your pants.
I'mma ., I'mma give you one more chance to get a thing to me!
Already know I don't play no games,
Make a point on the game got no shame
Is a three o'clock in the morning,
You're on your way to my bed,.
Looming large like a favorite son
One more time comes my obsession
Like a mountain stream that ends in mud
I'm wading in shit waiting for the flood
Sinking
You did, you did, you did, you did
Left me hating
You did, you did, you did, you did
Contemplating
I'm drinking strength for comic relief
While I'm growing super weak in the knees
You asked me can I deliver
Like a monster crossing the Hudson River
Stomping
You did, you did, you did, you did
Left me waning
You did, you did, you did, you did
Slowly draining
Feet of clay that are stuck to the floor
You did, you did, you did, you did
And with vanity you want more
Big fat kill
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
In my hands
Carrying the weight of the world
I'm biting my tongue so much it hurts
But at the same time I'm at a loss for words
The things I've seen should've left me blind
So it makes me happy that I'm losing my mind
Laughing
You did, you did, you did, you did
Left me waning
You did, you did, you did, you did
Slowly draining
Feet of clay that are stuck to the floor
You did, you did, you did, you did
And with vanity you want more
Big fat kill
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
In my hands
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
In my hands
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
In my hands
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
Carrying the weight of the world
In my hands
Carrying the weight of the world
You asked me can I deliver
Like a monster crossing the Hudson River
Carrying the weight of the world
In my hands
Carrying the weight of the world
The things I've seen should've left me blind
Instrumental
Wake up in the morning, in the middle of the night
Pass by the mirror, make sure I'm lookin' right, uh
Tattoo it on my arm, on the back of your neck
In between your legs baby, so you won't forget me, uh
Chorus:
Don't you worry, it's gonna be alright
I'm in a hurry, I'm gonna drive all night
Be there in the morning, you can bet your @ss
I got both hands on the wheel, and my big foot on the gas, uh
Whooo
Well'uh, got houses of the holy, on the box
I got it all cranked up cause, yeah that shit rocks, uh
Gottta roll down the window, things are getting all hot
I'm runnin out of gas baby I gottta stop... well
Chorus:
Don't you worry, it's gonna be alright
I'm in a hurry, I'm gonna drive all night
Be there in the morning, you can bet your @ss
I got both hands on the wheel, and my big foot on the gas yeah
I got my big foot on the gas
Guitar solo
Well, got my imaginations, runnin wild
I'm all by myself, ah I crackin up
Better get some rest girl, I'm all pumped up
Chorus:
Don't you worry, it's gonna be alright
I'm in a hurry, I'm gonna drive all night
Be there in the morning, you can bet your @ss
I got both hands on the wheel, and my big foot on the gas yeah
Right there...
I got my big foot on the gas
Are you ready baby?