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This week a conversation with Tania Cammerano, editor of the on-line food site taste.com.au, about food snobbery There's a lot of it about, but what exactly is it? It's not just a serious interest in food.

A food snob used to be sort of person you'd catch tucking into caviar or truffles, but is there now a new breed of food snobs, who believe that you have to travel the world to explore and eat peasant food in situ and whose interests include the environment, maintaining diversity, fair trade ideas, organics and animal welfare, sustainability etc
The search for authenticity is their holy grail, though it is mostly unattainable, even with all the appellations in the world. E.g., camembert was originally blue, many traditions are invented to help tourism.

Guests

Tania Cammerano

Further Information

Presenter

Alan Saunders

Producer

Janne Ryan

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