New website: Food Stories

Where does the food on your plate come from? How old is the recipe? Who invented it? How were the ingredients produced?

British Library Learning has recently launched a new interactive resource entitled Food Stories, a website that examines the revolutionary changes that have taken place in the production and consumption of food over the last one hundred years.

Using recordings from the British Library Sound Archive, the animated resource covers a range of subjects: from tradition and ritual, cultural identity and migration to farming, technology, food miles and Fairtrade.

Detailed transcripts and background contextual information are provided for each recording. Teachers' Notes and Student Activities also accompany the website.

05/06/07