The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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The Unlikely Power of Cookbooks
How cookbooks have been used to demonstrate power, ideology and divide society
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Food Secrets of Centenarians
To what extent can your diet help you live longer?
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What Time is Dinner?
How social class has determined when we eat.
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Much Ado About Michelin
The allure and mystique of the Michelin star
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Talking Rot
When does old food become bad food?
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Hands Off My Food!
When is it OK to profit from the cuisine of a culture you were not born into?
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The Real Value of a Cup of Tea
Do you pay enough for your cup of tea?
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Foodunnit?
How does food help solve crime?
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I Don't Cook
This is definitely not a cookery programme
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The Fish Japan Ate
The wild bluefin tuna is being eaten to extinction. Can Japan afford to keep serving it?
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Liberte, Egalite, Gastronomie?
What does French food tell us about the country's future?
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Little Kitchen of Horrors
The scary, frightening, and spooky stories that we like to tell about what we eat.
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Orthorexia Nervosa: When 'Healthy' Food Becomes Harmful
When the pursuit of quality food destroys quality of life.
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Hey, Hey We're The Food Chain
The best pick of our award-winning programme which explores everything you eat.
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One Potato More
Is the humble spud the solution to the global food supply?
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Poor Old Potato
Is the potato the 'food of the poor'?
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The Food We Breathe
How your next meal might affect your next breath
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McAsia?
What fast food can tell us about the changing global economy.
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Post-Truth Food
Understanding the truth about food shortages and how they are reported.
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Wheelchair Fajitas and Talking Scales
A look at the important role food plays for people who have, or acquire, a disability.
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The Plankton Problem
The organisms at the centre of our food web are stressed - and it affects your plate.
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Got Gumbo?
What can one single dish tell you about America's history?
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The Queen of Creole
Can a restaurant help to change the course of a country?
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Should You Drink Your Food?
We speak to a man who drank his food for 30 days, and explore liquefied food.
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Of Maize and Men: Unpicked
The most abundant crop on earth is maize. We ask if we consume too much of it.
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Of Maize and Men: The Rise
The story of how one crop came to be the world's most important ingredient.
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Food Chain: The Quiz
Take part in the ultimate test of culinary trivia in our inaugural quiz
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Food Chain: The Musical
How we view our food - and ourselves - through song.
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Survival Stories: 鈥榃e Ate Spiders, Flies and Worms鈥�
Two students tell us their survival diet whilst lost in a remote part of Turkey.
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Hunger in the Rich World
Why do people struggle to feed themselves in wealthy societies?
