The Food Chain Podcast
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
Episodes to download
-
![]()
Opening a restaurant in a pandemic
Thu 5 Nov 2020
Three people who braved opening a food business during the pandemic
-
![]()
How to enjoy eating with your own children
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Three parents explain how they persuaded their children to behave better at mealtimes
-
![]()
-
![]()
How does food make a president?
Thu 15 Oct 2020
How food is used to win over voters in the US election
-
![]()
-
![]()
Plundering the planet under cover of coronavirus
Thu 1 Oct 2020
The animals and forests being used for survival and profit in the pandemic's shadow
-
![]()
Coronavirus: Obesity's defining moment?
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Could the pandemic make the world tackle its obesity problem?
-
![]()
-
![]()
-
![]()
Margarita For茅s: My life in five dishes
Thu 3 Sep 2020
The Filipina chef on privilege, battling bulimia, and finding her identity through food
-
![]()
Sean Sherman: My life in five dishes
Thu 27 Aug 2020
The chef fighting to bring true Native American cuisine back from the brink of extinction
-
![]()
Food media's moment of reckoning?
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Resignations, racism and revolt changing the way we write about food
-
![]()
Meatpacking's coronavirus problem
Thu 13 Aug 2020
The unique conditions that have led to global outbreaks at meat processing plants
-
![]()
Single parents: Cooking solo
Thu 6 Aug 2020
The loneliness, the responsibility, the money, and food's power to create unique bonds
-
![]()
Dominique Crenn: My life in five dishes
Thu 30 Jul 2020
How a six-month-old orphan went on to become a three Michelin star chef
-
![]()
Does comfort food really comfort us?
Thu 23 Jul 2020
It鈥檚 something many of us intuitively believe, but it鈥檚 not always that simple
-
![]()
Jacques P茅pin: My life in five dishes
Thu 9 Jul 2020
How a near fatal car crash set an immigrant French chef on the path to US TV stardom
-
![]()
Losing your taste to coronavirus
Thu 2 Jul 2020
The common Covid-19 symptom that's often overlooked, but can be permanent.
-
![]()
-
![]()
Coronavirus: The survival business
Thu 11 Jun 2020
The food entrepreneurs forced to innovate to stay afloat during the pandemic.
-
![]()
-
![]()
Is our food creating pandemics?
Thu 28 May 2020
How farming can release deadly viruses from the wild.
-
![]()
Dan Barber: My life in five dishes
Thu 21 May 2020
How true flavour will revolutionise food and the mistake that re-focused his life's work.
-
![]()
Should China ban 'wet' markets?
Thu 14 May 2020
They鈥檝e been blamed for coronavirus, but some say calls to close them are misguided
-
![]()
-
![]()
Coronavirus: Chefs fight back
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Some of the world鈥檚 top restaurateurs are refusing to take lockdown lying down
-
![]()
Death by coronavirus or hunger?
Thu 23 Apr 2020
The tough question being faced by many in developing countries.
-
![]()
My quarantine kitchen
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Stories of comfort, solidarity and hope behind closed doors in the coronavirus pandemic.
-
![]()
-
![]()
Coronavirus: Where did all the food go?
Thu 2 Apr 2020
The impact of stockpiling and lockdown on the global food supply chain.
Food Chain highlights
Tea, coffee, spices, chillies ... snack on a selection of programme highlights
