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The food that broke through lockdown

The Food Chain

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On the streets of Bucharest a woman unwraps a package of Chinese pepper ... and falls in love. In Portland Oregon, a family finds a new home - in a farmers market. A food writer opens her front door in London and finds a Chinese banquet waiting for her. On a cold winter’s morning, in a city 10,000 kilometres away from her family, a woman stands and waits for a taste of home.

As part of the BBC World Service festival exploring how the Coronavirus pandemic is reshaping our social lives, Emily Thomas hears four stories of how food can bring us closer together when we’ve never been more distant from one another.

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(Picture: Two women sit on a bench talking, Credit: Getty/BBC)

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Albertina Coacci Tse Yin Lee Fuchsia Dunlop Schlifka Collier

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