The Food Programme Episodes Episode guide
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Comfort Food
In these uncomfortable times, Sheila Dillon asks what role food plays in giving comfort.
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Adventures in Vegetarian Cuisine
Can a new wave of vegetarian chefs and food writers change mainstream cuisine?
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The Trouble with Chocolate
Sheila Dillon explains why supplies of cocoa around the world are facing a tricky future.
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Generation Food
A profile of the people coming up with radical ideas for food in the UK.
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London 2012, Coke and McDonalds
Food and the Olympics. Guest presenter John Inverdale looks ahead to London 2012.
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Food Stories: What Happened Next?
Sheila Dillon reports on the major developments in the big food stories of 2011.
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New Year's Food Quiz
Tim Hayward and the Food Quiz team juggle more food history, trivia and recipe knowledge.
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The Food Quiz
Tim Hayward presents a special food quiz edition recorded at the Abergavenny Food Festival
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Gin and Botanicals
Dan Saladino explores the past, present and future of the most British of drinks, gin.
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The Price of Food
Dan Saladino exlores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat.
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Britain's best food markets
Sheila Dillon discusses this year's winners in the Best Market category of the Food Awards
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Britain's best food producers
Sheila Dillon reports on the winners and finalists of the 麻豆社 Food and Farming Awards 2011
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A Special (Food) Relationship
Mark Bittman, chief food writer at the New York Times, meets three campaigning UK chefs.
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Future Food
Simon Parkes meets the people trying to come up with food ideas for the future.
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Into the Wild
Feeding a restaurant trend, Sheila Dillon investigates the world of commercial foragers.
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Palm Oil
A traditional cooking oil and a controversial food ingredient. What's up with palm oil?
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The Calorie
Sheila Dillon asks if the calorie is an outdated way of controlling diet.
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Pickling and Preserving
Sheila Dillon looks at some of the ingenious ways we have developed of preserving food.
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Los Angeles Street Food
Richard Johnson travels to Los Angeles, a city where many of the world's food trends begin
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Beer - Trouble Brewing?
As tax on low-alcohol beer is cut, Sheila Dillon asks how problem drinking can be tackled.
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Food ads and children
Sheila Dillon explores the issue of advertising junk food to children.
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The Honey Business
Sheila Dillon takes a look behind the scenes of the honey industry.
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Food Poverty
Simon Parkes reveals a Britain in which hunger and hard food choices are all too real.
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Food Icons: George Perry-Smith
The story and legacy of the maverick, self taught, legendary chef George Perry-Smith.
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Kitchen Designers
A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at the history of kitchen design.
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Food Icons: Major Patrick Rance
In a series on people who've changed the way we eat, The Food Programme profiles Pat Rance
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Scotland's Food Policy
With Sheila Dillon. A look at Scotland's first ever national food policy.
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Mario Cassandro
Sheila Dillon looks at the life of Mario Cassandro, a man who re-invented the restaurant.
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Yeast
A global commodity, and now part of a food revival. Sheila Dillon on the wonders of yeast.
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School Food
Sheila Dillon follows two schools as they attempt to transform the way their pupils eat.