My latest edition of
@bbcfoodprog is a collection of stories of roots and roads, the theme of this year’s
@parabereforum held in Barcelona.
To start…. Bundjalung woman
@msmindywoods talks about saving endangered aboriginal food skills and ingredients on Australia’s east coast, and how the world needs indigenous knowledge more than ever.
From Catalonia we hear about the ingenious Gastrosavies project, created to preserve and pass on traditional Catalan cuisine to future generations. In 3 minute films cooks from an older generation of women are passing on their recipes and techniques to the next.
From Hebron, in the West Bank,
@fidaa.abuhamdiya describes the impact settler violence is having on Palestinian food culture. As trees are burnt and families forced off farms, the taste of olive oil is disappearing from dishes, and identity.
@liliameneses_ an Indigenous woman from the Guanano people from Colombia’s Amazon talks about reviving an ecosystem and ingredients after decades in which forests were turned into a place of conflict, coca cultivation and drugs labs - a story also told by
@carinasoto_velasquez
@oliahercules shares stories from her memoir Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story through War, Exile and Hope. Some of the recipes Olia cooks have been handed down through generations of women. How they’ve survived, through conflict and displacement seems miraculous.
Founder of the Parabere forum
@canabalmaria provides important context to the theme of roots and roads, with the help of the event’s moderator
@libbytravers
This is another of our ‘mix tape’ editions in which we bring diverse stories together into a singe edition, and I think the result in this case, of the five women telling their stories from parabere, is inspirational.
Listen on
@bbcfoodprog and
@bbcsounds 
