The Food Chain Episodes Available now
Eat with your hands
The art, joy and benefits of eating with your hands
Can I eat this flower?
How edible flowers might add more to a dish than just decoration
To salt or not to salt?
What sodium chloride does to your food and your body
Hungry at sea
Why some seafarers on board cargo ships don’t have enough to eat
Food double-acts: TV chefs
The chefs who have found brilliant on-screen chemistry with a friend
How to run a restaurant
With restaurants up against it, what is the winning formula for running one?
The real Willy Wonkas
What’s it really like to work in a chocolate factory?
Fasting and feasting
Is fasting for faith good for the mind and body?
Why we love dumplings
You say ‘kenkey’, I say ‘dim sum’. Where did dumplings really come from?
The fifth taste
How to cook with umami and MSG
