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Dan Saladino meets a Norwegian farmer working to save traditional brown cheese which is at risk of extinction. Each week The Food Programme will focus on an endangered food, flavour or ingredient at risk of extinction. It's all part of a global project called the Ark of Taste which now includes more than 3000 foods from over 100 countries. It was started in the 1990s when a group of Italian Slow Food campaigners realised the flavour of a traditional street food snack had changed. The reason was that chefs could no longer source a local variety of pepper. It's led to thousands of people all over the world submitting their local traditional varieties of fruits and vegetables, rare breeds of livestock, cheeses and other products into the Ark. The farmer is passionate about preserving the traditional methods of producing the fudge like brown cheese, but with only three farms left in Norway he hopes its inclusion in the ark will secure its future. First broadcast on The Food Programme, 12 April 2015.
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