The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
Episodes to download
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The Art of Fermentation - A Masterclass
Mon 6 Nov 2017
Dan Saladino has a practical fermentation masterclass with writer and teacher Sandor Katz.
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More Problems with Poultry?
Mon 30 Oct 2017
Following years of reporting on UK chicken scandals, Dan Saladino looks at the latest.
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How We Eat: 4. Eating as a Family
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Sheila Dillon explores the reality and the myth of eating as a family.
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How We Eat: 3. Eating By The Rules
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Sheila Dillon talks to people who eat according to very strict rules.
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How We Eat: 2. Eating with Strangers
Mon 9 Oct 2017
Sheila Dillon finds out what happens when you eat with strangers.
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How We Eat: 1. Eating Alone
Mon 2 Oct 2017
Sheila Dillon explores the guilty pleasures of eating alone.
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food & Farming Awards 2017
Tue 26 Sep 2017
Sheila Dillon presents the highlights of this year's awards with Giorgio Locatelli
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Future Food
Sun 17 Sep 2017
Dan Saladino meets the Future Food finalists in the 2017 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food and Farming Awards.
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Zero Compromise: A (Georgian) Natural Wine Story.
Mon 11 Sep 2017
Dan Saladino travels into the Caucasus in search of zero-compromise natural wine makers.
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Feast Like a Georgian: A Food Guide to the Caucasus.
Mon 4 Sep 2017
Dan Saladino travels to a country now considered to be an undiscovered food gem, Georgia.
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Salt Fish
Mon 28 Aug 2017
Sheila Dillon asks why dried and salted cod is still loved by cooks around the world.
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Chef Stress
Mon 21 Aug 2017
Dan Saladino investigates pressures on chefs and the darker side of the restaurant kitchen
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Dishing The Dirt on Clean Eating
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Grace Dent discovers what has made Anthony Warner into the Angry Chef.
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Patience Gray: A Life Through Food
Mon 7 Aug 2017
Jojo Tulloh, Adam Federman and Louise Gray introduce the food writing of Patience Gray.
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Summer camping special
Mon 31 Jul 2017
Sheila Dillon, Cerys Matthews and friends go camping to celebrate food in the outdoors.
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Greece: Return to the land?
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Sheila Dillon is on a trip through crisis hit Greece to meet people making a life in food.
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Sandor Katz and the Art of Fermentation
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Dan Saladino heads to Tennessee to meet the fermentation teacher and writer Sandor Katz.
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Hunting With The Hadza 2: The Microbiome.
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Dan Saladino asks if hunter gatherers the Hadza tribe hold the key to our future health.
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Hunting with the Hadza
Mon 3 Jul 2017
Dan Saladino eats with one of the last remaining hunter gatherer tribes, Tanzania's Hadza.
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Diet and Dementia: An Update
Mon 26 Jun 2017
An update on cook Paula Wolfert and entrepreneur James Ashwell's food and dementia stories
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Alastair Little: A Life through Food
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Sheila Dillon meets pioneering chef and food writer Alastair Little.
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Women & Beer
Mon 12 Jun 2017
Beer sommelier Jane Peyton wants to persuade Sheila Dillon to drink beer made by women.
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Cult Fiction and Food
Mon 5 Jun 2017
Confederacy of Dunces to Absolute Beginners, Dan Saladino looks at food in cult fiction.
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Turmeric
Mon 29 May 2017
Sheila Dillon investigates the culinary use and the latest medical findings on turmeric.
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Mac 'n' Cheese
Mon 22 May 2017
Sheila Dillon on the humble mac'n'cheese, a dish that crosses culture and classes.
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The Chef Who Vanished - The Story of Jeremiah Tower
Mon 15 May 2017
Jeremiah Tower changed the idea of what a chef could be. Dan Saladino tells his story.
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The Herbal World of Jekka McVicar
Mon 8 May 2017
Culinary herb pioneer Jekka McVicar shares her life through food with Sheila Dillon.
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Out Like a Lamb
Mon 1 May 2017
Is lamb in a stew? SORTEDfood help understand why millennials aren't cooking with lamb.
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The Potato
Mon 24 Apr 2017
Sheila Dillon on how the potato changed the world, and might shape our food future.
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Food Stories from Venezuela Part 2: Maria Fernanda Di Giacobbe
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Dan Saladino meets a woman who believes Venezuela's escape from crisis rests on chocolate.
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