The Food Chain Podcast
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
Episodes to download
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Lockdown food fails
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Coronavirus has sent more of us into the kitchen, but has it taught us how to cook?
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Sourdough love stories
Thu 10 Dec 2020
We meet some very old (bread) mothers and the families that care for them
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The chef who took on hospital food
Thu 3 Dec 2020
How do you put the hospitality back into hospital food?
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Why the whale hunt continues
Thu 26 Nov 2020
The real reasons some countries swim against the tide of international opinion
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The power of food emojis
Thu 19 Nov 2020
How food emojis make it to your keyboard and why it matters
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Selassie Atadika: My life in five dishes
Thu 12 Nov 2020
The humanitarian aid worker-turned chef trying to empower a continent through its food
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Opening a restaurant in a pandemic
Thu 5 Nov 2020
Three people who braved opening a food business during the pandemic
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How to enjoy eating with your own children
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Three parents explain how they persuaded their children to behave better at mealtimes
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How does food make a president?
Thu 15 Oct 2020
How food is used to win over voters in the US election
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Plundering the planet under cover of coronavirus
Thu 1 Oct 2020
The animals and forests being used for survival and profit in the pandemic's shadow
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Coronavirus: Obesity's defining moment?
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Could the pandemic make the world tackle its obesity problem?
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Margarita For茅s: My life in five dishes
Thu 3 Sep 2020
The Filipina chef on privilege, battling bulimia, and finding her identity through food
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Sean Sherman: My life in five dishes
Thu 27 Aug 2020
The chef fighting to bring true Native American cuisine back from the brink of extinction
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Food media's moment of reckoning?
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Resignations, racism and revolt changing the way we write about food
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Meatpacking's coronavirus problem
Thu 13 Aug 2020
The unique conditions that have led to global outbreaks at meat processing plants
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Single parents: Cooking solo
Thu 6 Aug 2020
The loneliness, the responsibility, the money, and food's power to create unique bonds
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Dominique Crenn: My life in five dishes
Thu 30 Jul 2020
How a six-month-old orphan went on to become a three Michelin star chef
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Does comfort food really comfort us?
Thu 23 Jul 2020
It鈥檚 something many of us intuitively believe, but it鈥檚 not always that simple
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Jacques P茅pin: My life in five dishes
Thu 9 Jul 2020
How a near fatal car crash set an immigrant French chef on the path to US TV stardom
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Losing your taste to coronavirus
Thu 2 Jul 2020
The common Covid-19 symptom that's often overlooked, but can be permanent.
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Coronavirus: The survival business
Thu 11 Jun 2020
The food entrepreneurs forced to innovate to stay afloat during the pandemic.
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Is our food creating pandemics?
Thu 28 May 2020
How farming can release deadly viruses from the wild.
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Dan Barber: My life in five dishes
Thu 21 May 2020
How true flavour will revolutionise food and the mistake that re-focused his life's work.
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Should China ban 'wet' markets?
Thu 14 May 2020
They鈥檝e been blamed for coronavirus, but some say calls to close them are misguided
Food Chain highlights
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