The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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Disaster Food: Feeding a Country in Crisis
The impact of natural disasters on a country's ability to feed itself.
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Bottled Water: Do We Really Need It?
Is bottled water the ultimate marketing con, or a potential lifesaver?
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Eating With Our Ears: The Sound of Food
How sound and music influence the way we taste food and drink.
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Animals on Antibiotics: Could Pigs on Pills Make us Ill?
Amid warnings we are heading into post-antibiotic era, we ask if farmers are to blame.
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Food Chain Late Night
We explore the characters and cuisines that come out after dark.
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Front of House
The Food Chain looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer.
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Food and Nostalgia
The power food has to evoke memory and how memory impacts the food we eat
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Is Convenience Killing Us?
Processed, packaged, flavoured and often pre-cooked food is now a norm but at what cost?
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Food Waste: How Low Can it Go?
Exploring a problem that is costing one in three of the world's calories.
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
The relationship between food and the workplace
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Food, Power and Punishment
What part should food play in punishment?
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The Truth About Diabetes
Unpicking the issues of a global disease that is spiralling out of control
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Down with 'Foodies'?
Hipsters, food fads, and the culinary class wars
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Breast Practice
The economics of breastfeeding and working mothers.
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Chinatown
From Manila to Havana, we explore the story and legacy of Chinatowns around the world.
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Back of House
Want to be a chef? Low entry level wages along with culinary college debt makes it hard
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Food on Mars!
As the pressures on earth intensify, will growing food in space become our only option?
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Food Far From 蜜芽传媒
How to feed the biggest refugee crisis since World War Two
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Food of War
What does it take to eat on the front line?
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India: How to Feed a Nation
Can the world鈥檚 largest democracy guarantee its citizens the right to their next meal?
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India: Faith, Food, and Politics
Faith, food, and politics in the world's largest democracy.
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Gut Feeling
The mechanics, the mysteries, and the medical potential of our gut.
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Food of Love
From a baby鈥檚 first cry to the funeral feast: food as the language of love.
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Chicken: Too Much of a Good Thing?
The Food Chain returns to explore one of the world's most important foods: the chicken.
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How to (Not) Grow Your Food Business
Can a food company stay small and still survive?
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Sexual Politics in the Kitchen
How does gender affect what we eat, cook and what food we buy and why does it matter?
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The End of Eating Wild Fish?
Most of our food is farmed. Should fish be, too?
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How Do We Know What鈥檚 Good For Us?
The mixed messages of the science of eating and why not all experts agree.
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Spice and Status
The global network of commerce that flavours our food
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Coffee: Globalisation鈥檚 Drink of Choice
How the coffee industry is changing for growers, sellers, and consumers around the world.
