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The Food Programme Episodes

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    Restaurant Reviews

    With an abundance of different restaurant reviews, Sheila Dillon asks who we can trust.

  2. Cider: Britain's Most Misunderstood Drink?

    Drinks writer Pete Brown explains why bottles of cider should be on the UK's dinner tables

  3. The Great British Hop

    Can there really be only 60 hop farmers left in the UK? Miles Warde finds out.

  4. Cook Slow, Cook Fast

    Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of cooks using slow and pressure cookers.

  5. The School Food Plan

    Sheila Dillon investigates the new School Food Plan and asks if it can make real change.

  6. A Quiet Food Revolution: The Story of Myrtle and Darina Allen

    How two women, Myrtle and Darina Allen, revolutionised food in Ireland with their cooking.

  7. Booze-free Bars

    Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers the new breed of non-alcoholic bars.

  8. The Future of Street Food

    Can street food change the world? Richard Johnson on new ideas unfolding around the world.

  9. DIY Food

    Tim Hayward meets the people taking ambitious food production into their own hands.

  10. In Praise of Bacon

    Hardeep Singh Kohli's personal plea to the nation to reflect on a food of wonder: bacon.

  11. Feeding the Detectives

    Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.

  12. A World Stage for Food and Music

    How cooks from 12 countries gathered to share food and music on stage at Womad.

  13. The Banana - fascinating history, uncertain future

    Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular fruit, the banana, is uncertain

  14. Skint Foodies

    Sheila Dillon meets the cooks who've specialised in making great food on very low incomes.

  15. Rethinking Veganism

    How a new generation is rethinking and embracing a meat and dairy free diet.

  16. Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange, Part 2

    Magnus Nilsson and Valentine Warner fish the lakes of Sweden's Jamtland for wild trout.

  17. Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange

    Valentine Warner and chef Magnus Nilsson swap food stories. In part one, British wild boar

  18. Butter, a delicious story of decline and revival

    Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of producers making butter special again.

  19. Food, game changers and career movers

    A look at the award winners who leaving high flying careers to follow their food passions.

  20. The chocolate world of Mott Green

    The story of Mott Green, Grenadian cocoa farmer, who tried to change the chocolate world.

  21. Bereavement and Food

    Sheila Dillon explores how bereavement can change our relationship with food.

  22. Michael Pollan: Why Cooking Matters

    Sheila Dillon speaks to Michael Pollan on the craft, science and pleasures of cooking.

  23. Sugar: Pure, White and Deadly?

    Sheila Dillon finds out why the debate about the role of sugar in our lives is hotting up.

  24. Food, Cancer and Well-Being

    Sheila Dillon asks if food and nutrition should have a bigger role in treating cancer.

  25. A Life Through Wine: Jancis Robinson

    Sheila Dillon speaks to world-renowned wine writer and critic Jancis Robinson.

  26. Digital Dishes - life stories through recipes

    Inside one kitchen, 13 strangers from all over Europe share food and stories.

  27. Black Pudding v Boudin Noir

    Charles Campion reveals the secrets of great black pudding at the 'world championships'.

  28. Food on the Road

    Sheila Dillon goes trucking and finds out what it's like to work, live and eat on the road

  29. Chilli Britannia

    Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from growers to expert eaters.

  30. Madhur Jaffrey, a life through food

    Madhur Jaffrey, Indian cooking legend, returns to India and tells her food life story.

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