Dan Saladino

Dan Saladino is a food journalist and broadcaster. He joined The Food Programme in 2006 and for more than a decade has travelled the world recording stories of foods at risk of extinction from cheeses made in the foothills of a remote Balkan mountain range to strange red varieties of rice in southern China. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the Guild of Food Writers Winner for Best Food Broadcast in 2015 and 2017, and twice at the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards. In 2017, he was listed in the Progress 1000: London's Most Influential People. 

His first book — Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them — was published by Vintage in 2021.