The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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The end of the road for street food?
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
The power of battered poultry and how it has come to achieve global domination
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Made in space
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?
Three food scientists tell us how they manipulate flavour, shelf-life and appearance
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Nobu Matsuhisa: My life in five dishes
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?
The emerging condition linked to gluten and the fight over how to treat it
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The tipping point
Two restaurant owners trying to change two very different dining cultures
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Fantasy, fiction and food
How to create characters, meaning, and even entirely new worlds through food.
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What's climate change doing to cows?
Farm vets are seeing worrying signs - can they help make livestock greener?
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Asma Khan: My life in five dishes
A disregarded daughter who defied expectation to run one of London's top restaurants
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Eat the year
Three women who went to extraordinary lengths in search of change
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Samin Nosrat: My life in five dishes
The Netflix star and best-selling author rising to the top of the culinary world
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I hate Christmas pudding!
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?
Artisan chocolatiers are on a mission to make our favourite treat more ethical
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Sommeliers: Wine waiters uncorked
What the person serving your wine is really thinking
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Marcus Samuelsson: My life in five dishes
A culinary adventure from Ethiopia to Sweden to Harlem
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Can palm oil be sustainable?
Borneo's bold plan to clean up a controversial industry
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Bakers: Earning a crust
Why running a bakery is like doing a triathlon, and why we've been eating bread all wrong
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Can you have your plate and eat it?
Could we eat our way out of the packaging pollution problem?
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How dangerous is your food delivery?
Who pays the real price for your takeaway?
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Will robot pickers change our fruit?
How a shortage of fruit pickers is affecting our food.
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How to cook for a megastar
Private chefs take us into the extravagant and sometimes disturbing world of celebrity
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Down on the farm: Suicide, stress and farmers
Why mental illness is a big problem for global agriculture
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Ken Hom: My life in five dishes
The famous Chinese-American cook tells us about his life through food
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Eating with Etna
Farming and food on one of the world's most active volcanoes
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Foraging: Pleasure or profit?
Should we be worried about money changing hands for wild ingredients?
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Ritual slaughter under threat
The debate over animal welfare and religious freedom.
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The young pub bosses reviving the British boozer
A new generation's plan to preserve a cultural institution in decline.
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Dynasties
How well do family and work really mix when it comes to the food business?
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Blogs! Money! Power!
How food writers are using blogs and social media to change what and how you eat.
