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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Should the US abandon tipping?
Thu 25 Mar 2021
As coronavirus batters restaurants, is now the time to shake up their unique wage system?
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The food that broke through lockdown
Thu 18 Mar 2021
Four stories of love, friendship and food during lockdown
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Is it time to add vitamin D to food?
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Coronavirus has strengthened calls for action on the 'sunshine vitamin' problem
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How to feed a footballer
Thu 4 Mar 2021
How football affects food for players and the people around them
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Alice Waters: My life in five dishes
Thu 25 Feb 2021
The influential chef and activist explains how she started a food revolution
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Has coronavirus changed school meals for ever?
Thu 11 Feb 2021
How a school meal is so much more than food
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Nigella Lawson: My life in five dishes
Thu 4 Feb 2021
The British food writer and TV cook tells us about her life through food
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Divided by drink: A tale from dry America
Thu 28 Jan 2021
The other big vote that took place in the US last November
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The arctic eating adventure
Thu 14 Jan 2021
The Yukon mother who fed her three teenagers on local food for a year
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Yotam Ottolenghi: My life in five dishes
Thu 7 Jan 2021
The 鈥榩hilosopher chef鈥� on the pandemic, the magic of pastry, and finding peace in cooking
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What's food got to do with destiny?
Christmas Eve 2020
The power of superstition, ritual and the belief in magic
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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
Food Chain highlights
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