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From amaranth to zabaglione, Sheila Dillon and Derek Cooper investigate every aspect of the food we eat. |
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- Derek's biography
- Derek's interview
- What do you know about Derek? |
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"Cooper is a man with tremendous gusto and passion for the pleasures of life and food, but he is also a man who has a blazing fury with those who are responsible for allowing our food supply to have become so contaminated and with those countless others who accept this state with apathy and disregard."
Journalist Colin Spencer |
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Sheila has just won the Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food in the Guild of Food Writers for a programme she presented on The Women's Institute. Listen again to the programme.
Sheila Dillon comes from Hoghton, Lancashire, the village where in 1603 a drunken James VI of Scotland, en route to take the throne of England, knighted the loin of beef he was served in HoghtonTower鈥檚 banqueting hall鈥攈ence Sirloin. Sheila says the story may be apocryphal but it shows that good food has long been taken seriously in her part of the country.
A degree in English at Leicester University was followed by a year with the British Council in Finland. The job introduced her to 鈥渙ne of the most romantic places on earth,鈥 she says, 鈥渁nd taught me that teaching wasn鈥檛 for me.鈥. Then post-graduate work in Victorian studies in the American Midwest, a publishing job at Indiana University Press, travelling on a cargo boat with an 8-month stay in New Zealand and a move back into publishing at Little, Brown & Co in Boston, Massachusetts. There with five other women she brought a case against her employer for sex discrimination that helped change employment practises in the US. Moving to Scotland for three years, she edited, a small magazine covering social services, housing and social policy. But it was back in the US, in New York City, 20 years ago, she understood what she really wanted to do 鈥 cover the subject of food: the pleasures of eating it and the politics of producing it. She became associate editor of Food Monitor magazine.
Moving back to London , she heard Derek Cooper present The Food Programme, and knew that working there would be the perfect job. She was hired as a reporter in 1987, and a year later became senior producer. She and Derek won awards for investigative reporting and features about BSE, the food system in Russia and Ukraine after the collapse of communism, the science of the new fats, the development of organic farming, bioengineered foods and supermarket power. Last year Sheila won the Glenfiddich Award for best broadcast for a programme on food & poverty, produced by Jessica Mitchell. Sheila also created Veg Talk, Radio 4鈥檚 interactive grocery show.
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