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
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Is our food creating pandemics?
Thu 28 May 2020
How farming can release deadly viruses from the wild.
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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.
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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
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Coronavirus: Chefs fight back
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Some of the world鈥檚 top restaurateurs are refusing to take lockdown lying down
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Death by coronavirus or hunger?
Thu 23 Apr 2020
The tough question being faced by many in developing countries.
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My quarantine kitchen
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Stories of comfort, solidarity and hope behind closed doors in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Coronavirus: Where did all the food go?
Thu 2 Apr 2020
The impact of stockpiling and lockdown on the global food supply chain.
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How not to run a brewery
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Three craft brewers on why they walked away from their dream job.
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The mystery of mukbang
Thu 19 Mar 2020
Why do millions of people go online to watch total strangers binge-eat junk food?
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The end of the road for street food?
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Why a much-loved and much-needed part of life in South East Asia is under threat.
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Fried chicken: Fast food champion
Thu 5 Mar 2020
The power of battered poultry and how it has come to achieve global domination
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Made in space
Thu 27 Feb 2020
How answers to some of agriculture's biggest questions could be found beyond Earth
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Why are people putting chemicals in our food?
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Three food scientists tell us how they manipulate flavour, shelf-life and appearance
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Nobu Matsuhisa: My life in five dishes
Thu 13 Feb 2020
How the chef went from considering suicide to running a restaurant empire with De Niro
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Why is wheat making people sick?
Thu 6 Feb 2020
The emerging condition linked to gluten and the fight over how to treat it
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The tipping point
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Two restaurant owners trying to change two very different dining cultures
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Fantasy, fiction and food
Thu 23 Jan 2020
How to create characters, meaning, and even entirely new worlds through food.
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What's climate change doing to cows?
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Farm vets are seeing worrying signs - can they help make livestock greener?
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Asma Khan: My life in five dishes
Thu 9 Jan 2020
A disregarded daughter who defied expectation to run one of London's top restaurants
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Samin Nosrat: My life in five dishes
Boxing Day 2019
The Netflix star and best-selling author rising to the top of the culinary world
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I hate Christmas pudding!
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Why do some of us still serve traditional holiday foods even though we don't like them?
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Can chocolate be clean?
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Artisan chocolatiers are on a mission to make our favourite treat more ethical
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Sommeliers: Wine waiters uncorked
Thu 5 Dec 2019
What the person serving your wine is really thinking
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Marcus Samuelsson: My life in five dishes
Thu 28 Nov 2019
A culinary adventure from Ethiopia to Sweden to Harlem
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Can palm oil be sustainable?
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Borneo's bold plan to clean up a controversial industry
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Bakers: Earning a crust
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Why running a bakery is like doing a triathlon, and why we've been eating bread all wrong
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