The Food Chain

By BBC World Service

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 Sep 15, 2021

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 Mar 25, 2020
The BBC's best investigative food, agriculture, culinary podcast.

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The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.


Episode Date
The real Willy Wonkas
Mar 28, 2024
Fasting and feasting
Mar 21, 2024
Why we love dumplings
Mar 14, 2024
The fifth taste
Mar 07, 2024
The school cooks
Feb 29, 2024
Is this ultra processed?
Feb 22, 2024
Table talk
Feb 15, 2024
Detroit's urban farmers
Feb 08, 2024
Rebuilding Turkey’s food culture
Feb 01, 2024
Is Chinese food the best in the world?
Jan 25, 2024
How to invent an apple
Jan 18, 2024
The preservers
Jan 11, 2024
Another year away from home
Dec 28, 2023
Festive food stories
Dec 21, 2023
Feed your brain
Dec 14, 2023
How to stop cooking killing
Dec 07, 2023
Pesticide exports
Nov 30, 2023
Food for new mums
Nov 23, 2023
Eco scores on food labels
Nov 16, 2023
How to read a menu
Nov 09, 2023
Cooking in extreme places
Nov 02, 2023
Why is food so expensive in Ghana?
Oct 25, 2023
The rise of private chefs
Oct 18, 2023
How to feed a city
Oct 11, 2023
Can you eat your way to 100?
Oct 05, 2023
Bonnie Garmus: My life in five dishes
Sep 27, 2023
What's in a national dish?
Sep 20, 2023
The taste test
Sep 13, 2023
The art of food diplomacy
Sep 06, 2023
Feeding baby
Aug 30, 2023
Stop chewing like that!
Aug 23, 2023
Banh mi: A sandwich with a story
Aug 16, 2023
The Little Italy story
Aug 09, 2023
This kid cooks
Aug 02, 2023
Immersive dining
Jul 26, 2023
Africa's forgotten foods
Jul 19, 2023
What the wedding caterer is really thinking
Jul 12, 2023
How I learnt to cook
Jul 05, 2023
How did salt get so gourmet?
Jun 28, 2023
Can you feed a city from its rooftops?
Jun 21, 2023
The power of heritage brands
Jun 14, 2023
How did TV cooking competitions get so big?
Jun 07, 2023
Let’s take a lunch break!
May 31, 2023
Teaching tomorrow's chefs
May 24, 2023
Is the food you’re eating what you think it is?
May 17, 2023
Should we farm octopus?
May 10, 2023
A dish fit for the King
May 03, 2023
The growth of GM food
Apr 26, 2023
How AI could design our diets
Apr 21, 2023
Is this the end of the British caff?
Apr 12, 2023
Can small farms feed the world?
Apr 05, 2023
Bringing dark kitchens into the light
Mar 29, 2023
What do medics really eat?
Mar 23, 2023
How to photograph food
Mar 16, 2023
A taste of home
Mar 09, 2023
The joy of feeding birds
Mar 02, 2023
Feeding the VIPs
Feb 23, 2023
The growth of food banks in Africa
Feb 16, 2023
What's the best pasta shape?
Feb 09, 2023
What's the big deal about fine dining?
Feb 02, 2023
Why can’t my child swallow?
Jan 26, 2023
The ghost writers
Jan 19, 2023
The opera singer's diet
Jan 12, 2023
Chefs who changed course
Jan 05, 2023
Cooking with love
Dec 29, 2022
A Ukrainian table at Christmas
Dec 22, 2022
Hard to swallow
Dec 15, 2022
Why does Africa import a lot of food?
Dec 08, 2022
Eggonomics
Dec 01, 2022
Samuel Ikua: Global Youth Champion 2022
Nov 24, 2022
Food as rehabilitation
Nov 17, 2022
Eating With Our Ears: The Sound of Food
Nov 12, 2022
Island diets
Nov 10, 2022
The buffet business
Nov 03, 2022
Forbidden food: The Jews of Spain
Oct 26, 2022
What do astronauts eat?
Oct 19, 2022
Can farmers influence food prices?
Oct 12, 2022
Inheriting grandma's pan
Oct 05, 2022
Who owns seeds?
Sep 28, 2022
Food for mood
Sep 21, 2022
The flavourists
Sep 14, 2022
Inside food safety scares
Sep 07, 2022
Tomorrow’s food crops
Aug 31, 2022
Running a restaurant with your relatives
Aug 24, 2022
Liquid gold: The price of cooking oil
Aug 17, 2022
What can we do about drought?
Aug 10, 2022
The food illustrators
Aug 03, 2022
Fuelling a female footballer
Jul 27, 2022
Why use food for fuel?
Jul 20, 2022
In search of a food champion
Jul 14, 2022
The fungi kingdom
Jul 06, 2022
Lemn Sissay: My life in five dishes
Jun 29, 2022
Menopause and diet
Jun 22, 2022
What's up with airline food?
Jun 15, 2022
The recipe translators
Jun 08, 2022
Shop like the Queen
Jun 01, 2022
Feeding the imagination
May 25, 2022
How a stoma changed my life
May 18, 2022
The problem with wheat
May 11, 2022
The hot sauce sensations
May 04, 2022
The cost of 'getting ripped'
Apr 27, 2022
How to date a carnivore
Apr 20, 2022
Tasting climate change
Apr 13, 2022
Food poverty in a rich country
Apr 06, 2022
Food in the metaverse
Mar 31, 2022
A Ukrainian kitchen in London
Mar 17, 2022
An invisible crime
Mar 10, 2022
The recipe collectors
Mar 03, 2022
The online food fighters
Feb 17, 2022
The constipation taboo
Feb 10, 2022
The sisters who can 'taste' words
Feb 03, 2022
Cancer, food and me
Jan 27, 2022
How not to feed a dog
Jan 20, 2022
Sleep, eat, repeat?
Jan 13, 2022
So, you think you can quit caffeine?
Jan 06, 2022
The Food Chain unwrapped
Dec 30, 2021
Why I chose to live on rations
Dec 23, 2021
An alternative Christmas
Dec 16, 2021
(Film) Set menu
Dec 09, 2021
How rationing changed me
Dec 02, 2021
Gabriella D'Cruz: Global Youth Champion
Nov 25, 2021
How a new cuisine is born
Nov 18, 2021
How to cope with cooking burnout
Nov 11, 2021
One small change
Nov 04, 2021
A farmer's nightmare
Oct 22, 2021
Last orders: Why I quit hospitality
Oct 13, 2021
The drinking experiment
Oct 07, 2021
The bug business
Sep 29, 2021
Cooking by computer
Sep 22, 2021
OCD, the kitchen, and me
Sep 15, 2021
The power of a photograph
Sep 08, 2021
The unstoppable rise of starch
Aug 25, 2021
Is there a ‘chefsplainer’ in your kitchen?
Aug 04, 2021
Is it time to kill the calorie?
Jul 28, 2021
Should 'junk food' sponsor sport?
Jul 21, 2021
Life lessons from the honey bee
Jul 07, 2021
The endurance diet
Jun 30, 2021
The lure of on-demand groceries
Jun 23, 2021
The school that food built
Jun 16, 2021
Raymond Blanc: My life in five dishes
Jun 09, 2021
Inside the mind of a kitchen gadget
Jun 02, 2021
Do we need to talk about ‘ultra-processed food’?
May 26, 2021
What's the appetite for gene edited food?
May 19, 2021
Dan Barber: My life in five dishes
May 12, 2021
The blind cooks
May 05, 2021
America's 'food apartheid'
Apr 28, 2021
The man taking on fast food
Apr 21, 2021
How to love chillies
Apr 14, 2021
Portion distortion
Apr 07, 2021
A year in the life of a Chinese restaurant
Mar 31, 2021
Should the US abandon tipping?
Mar 25, 2021
The food that broke through lockdown
Mar 18, 2021
Is it time to add vitamin D to food?
Mar 11, 2021
How to feed a footballer
Mar 04, 2021
Alice Waters: My life in five dishes
Feb 25, 2021
Sourdough love stories
Feb 18, 2021
Has coronavirus changed school meals for ever?
Feb 11, 2021
Nigella Lawson: My life in five dishes
Feb 04, 2021
Divided by drink: A tale from dry America
Jan 28, 2021
The power of food emojis
Jan 21, 2021
The arctic eating adventure
Jan 14, 2021
Yotam Ottolenghi: My life in five dishes
Jan 07, 2021
Too many cookbooks?
Dec 31, 2020
What's food got to do with destiny?
Dec 24, 2020
Lockdown food fails
Dec 17, 2020
The chef who took on hospital food
Dec 03, 2020
Why the whale hunt continues
Nov 26, 2020
Selassie Atadika: My life in five dishes
Nov 12, 2020
Opening a restaurant in a pandemic
Nov 05, 2020
How to enjoy eating with your own children
Oct 29, 2020
One election, two farmers
Oct 21, 2020
How does food make a president?
Oct 14, 2020
Facing fat hatred
Oct 07, 2020
Plundering the planet under cover of coronavirus
Sep 30, 2020
Coronavirus: Obesity's defining moment?
Sep 23, 2020
The preppers and the pandemic
Sep 16, 2020
The fertiliser that blew up Beirut
Sep 09, 2020
Margarita Forés: My life in five dishes
Sep 03, 2020
Sean Sherman: My life in five dishes
Aug 26, 2020
Food media's moment of reckoning?
Aug 19, 2020
Meatpacking's coronavirus problem
Aug 12, 2020
Single parents: Cooking solo
Aug 06, 2020
Dominique Crenn: My life in five dishes
Jul 30, 2020
Does comfort food really comfort us?
Jul 23, 2020
Asma Khan: My life in five dishes
Jul 16, 2020
Jacques Pépin: My life in five dishes
Jul 09, 2020
Losing your taste to coronavirus
Jul 02, 2020
Is lockdown good news for fish?
Jun 24, 2020
Antonio Carluccio: My life in five dishes
Jun 18, 2020
Coronavirus: The survival business
Jun 11, 2020
Has the crisis made us more generous?
Jun 03, 2020
Is our food creating pandemics?
May 27, 2020
Should China ban 'wet' markets?
May 14, 2020
What next for restaurants?
May 06, 2020
Coronavirus: Chefs fight back
Apr 30, 2020
Death by coronavirus or hunger?
Apr 22, 2020
My quarantine kitchen
Apr 16, 2020
Coronavirus: Food’s frontline heroes
Apr 08, 2020
Coronavirus: Where did all the food go?
Apr 01, 2020
How not to run a brewery
Mar 26, 2020
The mystery of mukbang
Mar 19, 2020
The end of the road for street food?
Mar 12, 2020
Fried chicken: Fast food champion
Mar 05, 2020
Made in space
Feb 27, 2020
Why are people putting chemicals in our food?
Feb 20, 2020
Nobu Matsuhisa: My life in five dishes
Feb 13, 2020
Why is wheat making people sick?
Feb 06, 2020
The tipping point
Jan 30, 2020
Fantasy, fiction and food
Jan 23, 2020
What's climate change doing to cows?
Jan 16, 2020
Eat the year
Jan 02, 2020
Samin Nosrat: My life in five dishes
Dec 26, 2019
I hate Christmas pudding!
Dec 19, 2019
Can chocolate be clean?
Dec 12, 2019
Sommeliers: Wine waiters uncorked
Dec 05, 2019
Marcus Samuelsson: My life in five dishes
Nov 28, 2019
Can palm oil be sustainable?
Nov 21, 2019
Bakers: Earning a crust
Nov 14, 2019
Can you have your plate and eat it?
Nov 07, 2019
How dangerous is your food delivery?
Oct 31, 2019
Will robot pickers change our fruit?
Oct 17, 2019
How to date a vegan
Oct 10, 2019
How to cook for a megastar
Oct 03, 2019
Down on the farm: Suicide, stress and farmers
Sep 26, 2019
Ken Hom: My life in five dishes
Sep 19, 2019
Eating with Etna
Sep 12, 2019
Foraging: Pleasure or profit?
Sep 05, 2019
Ritual slaughter under threat
Aug 29, 2019
The young pub bosses reviving the British boozer
Aug 22, 2019
Dynasties
Aug 15, 2019
Blogs! Money! Power!
Aug 08, 2019
Food under siege
Aug 01, 2019
Baristas: The daily grind
Jul 25, 2019
Angela Hartnett: My life in five dishes
Jul 18, 2019
The pig plague
Jul 11, 2019
When is a burger not a burger?
Jul 04, 2019
The quest for black gold
Jun 27, 2019
How not to run a restaurant
Jun 20, 2019
Lunches changing lives
Jun 13, 2019
Finding a food champion: The finalists
Jun 06, 2019
Samin Nosrat: My life in five dishes
May 30, 2019
Bitter sweets
May 23, 2019
Food on the streets: London and Los Angeles
May 16, 2019
Organic Inc
May 09, 2019
Widowed: Food after loss
May 02, 2019
Raw grief
Apr 25, 2019
The pot washers
Apr 18, 2019
An inspector calls
Apr 11, 2019
How to tell a food story
Apr 04, 2019
Gut feelings
Mar 28, 2019
When breast isn't best
Mar 21, 2019
How to feed the Falklands
Mar 14, 2019
When foods get famous
Feb 28, 2019
A senseless generation?
Feb 21, 2019
Untold food stories: Rohingya and Uighur cuisine
Feb 14, 2019
High Stakes Cakes
Feb 07, 2019
André Cointreau: My life in five dishes
Jan 31, 2019
Uncut: Butchers Talk Chop
Jan 24, 2019
Is Product Placement Getting in Your Face?
Jan 17, 2019
The New Food Bank Frontline
Jan 10, 2019
After Party: A Look Back
Dec 27, 2018
Taking the Buzz out of Coffee
Dec 13, 2018
Can a Strong Drink Revive a City?
Dec 06, 2018
Why the Heat about Meat?
Nov 29, 2018
Million Dollar Mouths
Nov 22, 2018
Inside the Abattoir
Nov 15, 2018
Behind the (Food) Scenes
Nov 08, 2018
I Took on the Food Industry
Nov 01, 2018
I'm with the chef
Oct 25, 2018
Aristocrats and Archaeo-Food Nerds
Oct 18, 2018
Not Just a Rich White Woman’s Problem
Oct 11, 2018
Unseen: The Rise of Eating Disorders in China
Oct 04, 2018
Restaurant Critics: The Ungarnished Truth
Sep 27, 2018
Going Off Cow's Milk?
Sep 20, 2018
Widowed: Food After Loss
Sep 13, 2018
Raw grief
Sep 06, 2018
Rethinking the Celebrity Chef
Aug 29, 2018
The Invisible Ingredient
Aug 22, 2018
José Andrés: My life in five dishes
Aug 15, 2018
Kelis: My life in five dishes
Aug 08, 2018
Claudia Roden: My life in five dishes
Aug 02, 2018
Gordon Ramsay: My life in five dishes
Jul 26, 2018
Antonio Carluccio: My life in five dishes
Jul 19, 2018
Madhur Jaffrey: My life in five dishes
Jul 12, 2018
Jeremiah Tower: My life in five dishes
Jul 04, 2018
#MeToo Food
Jun 28, 2018
The Real Junk Food
Jun 21, 2018
Pony Tales
Jun 06, 2018
I am the Bread Man
May 30, 2018
Kelis: My life in five dishes
May 24, 2018
Critical Mass Catering
May 16, 2018
Absolute Food: Part II
May 09, 2018
Absolute Food: Part I
May 03, 2018
Fussy Old World
Apr 26, 2018
Claudia Roden: My Life in Five Dishes
Apr 20, 2018
Food Confidential
Apr 11, 2018
Eating Blockchain
Apr 04, 2018
A Poisonous Business
Mar 29, 2018
Do Not Feed the Animals
Mar 22, 2018
This Food Will Save Your Life*
Mar 07, 2018