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The Story of the Blood Oranges
Ande: I've spent so much of my time now, 15 years on this programme, and then ten years collecting stories for the book. The day i met some of these farmers who were giving it up and abandoning their citrus groves, i went to a meal that was being staged to give celebration to this citrus root. And he told me that these oranges were going to be placed in something called the ark of taste. Now there are more than five thousand of these endangered foods in the catalogue, from a hundred and 30 country. Each one represented, as i say in the book, history, culture, economics, politics, science, anthropology,. all of these things captured in these