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John Innes’ peas on the BBC

The John Innes Centre announces on Facebook that, on the latest episode of the BBC2 programme Great British Food Revival, the Centre’s genebank curator, Mike Ambrose…

…talks to celebrity chef Ainsley Harriot about peas, and introduces him to the JIC collection of 3,500 types of pea. Available in the UK until 6:59PM Tue, 22 Nov 2011 (pea segment starts after 29 mins).

Alas, not available here in Italy. Can someone in the UK watch the pea segment and tell us about it, please? The JIC pea collection is one of the largest in the world.

LATER: Or, you can watch this: ((Thanks to whoever tweets for John Innes!))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PSNMFV20k