Food is about change for the better, not just pleasure
If you just read about food in newspapers and magazines or watch cooking shows on TV you might think food was all about calories, or finger-licking pleasures, or competitive cooking, or scandals. What you wouldn’t pick up is food as an economic power-house, food as transformation, food as community glue.
Those values are at the core of the BBC’s Food and Farming Awards. They’re about finding the people and organisations who through food are changing the country for the better: School, hospital, care-home cooks who buy from their local suppliers and produce great meals. Retailers helping keep communities alive. Food producers creating the best while stimulating the wider economy. Innovators working out how to make quality food more widely available. All the categories are on our website.
This year we’re going global in partnership with the BBC World Service with our first Global Champion award for the innovators who’ve challenged the establishment anywhere in the world and transformed the food system.
But to find any transformers we need your help. We need you tell us who in your corner of Britain makes life better. We’ve recruited a specialist team of judges but without your input all their specialisms won’t matter a jot. So, please, nominate! We’re counting on you.
