The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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In search of a food champion
As we search for a new global champion, we hear from two previous award winners
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The fungi kingdom
Why fungi are important for all terrestrial life
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Lemn Sissay: My life in five dishes
Writer Lemn Sissay reflects on his life through memories of food
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Menopause and diet
Which foods could help ease your symptoms?
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What's up with airline food?
The highs and lows of in-flight dining
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The recipe translators
We speak to the people who translate recipe books into different languages
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Shop like the Queen
What does the Queen eat? We find out how you get a royal warrant
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Feeding the imagination
Two novelists discuss how food fuels their creativity
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How a stoma changed my life
Living with a stoma bag, and learning what to eat, and when
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The problem with wheat
Are we too reliant on one crop for our nutritional needs?
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The hot sauce sensations
How Sriracha and Lao Gan Ma achieved global cult status
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The cost of 'getting ripped'
Three men discuss the reality of pursuing a six-pack and how much of it is about food
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How to date a carnivore
The highs and lows of being with someone who loves eating meat
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Tasting climate change
Wine producers say a warming planet can be detected in the glass
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Food poverty in a rich country
Three UK citizens discuss how difficult it can be to feed a family on a low income
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Food in the metaverse
What food could look like in virtual worlds and what it means for restaurants
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A Ukrainian kitchen in London
Two cookbook authors 鈥� one Russian, one Ukrainian 鈥� share memories of food and friendship
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An invisible crime
Why drink spiking is misunderstood and underreported and how it can change
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The recipe collectors
The challenge of preserving recipes and what is at stake if they are lost
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The online food fighters
The people taking on misinformation about food and nutrition on social media
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The constipation taboo
What we could learn about our health and happiness if constipation was normalised
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The sisters who can 'taste' words
The weird and wonderful world of synaesthesia - a puzzling neurological phenomenon
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Cancer, food and me
Three women discuss how chemotherapy has changed their relationship with food
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How not to feed a dog
What we feed our four-legged friends and what it reveals about our relationship with food
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Sleep, eat, repeat?
The vicious circle of too little rest and too much of the wrong food
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So, you think you can quit caffeine?
Three people who tried giving up the world鈥檚 most commonly-used psychoactive drug
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The Food Chain unwrapped
Revisiting some of the most powerful food stories from the pandemic
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Why I chose to live on rations
What powdered eggs and tinned ham can teach us about our modern food system
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An alternative Christmas
Japan's love affair with fried chicken and the story of a very Chinese Jewish Christmas
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(Film) Set menu
The gruelling job of feeding cast and crew on a major movie or TV production
