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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Asma Khan: My life in five dishes
Thu 9 Jan 2020
A disregarded daughter who defied expectation to run one of London's top restaurants
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Samin Nosrat: My life in five dishes
Boxing Day 2019
The Netflix star and best-selling author rising to the top of the culinary world
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I hate Christmas pudding!
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Why do some of us still serve traditional holiday foods even though we don't like them?
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Can chocolate be clean?
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Artisan chocolatiers are on a mission to make our favourite treat more ethical
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Sommeliers: Wine waiters uncorked
Thu 5 Dec 2019
What the person serving your wine is really thinking
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Marcus Samuelsson: My life in five dishes
Thu 28 Nov 2019
A culinary adventure from Ethiopia to Sweden to Harlem
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Can palm oil be sustainable?
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Borneo's bold plan to clean up a controversial industry
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Bakers: Earning a crust
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Why running a bakery is like doing a triathlon, and why we've been eating bread all wrong
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Can you have your plate and eat it?
Thu 7 Nov 2019
Could we eat our way out of the packaging pollution problem?
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Will robot pickers change our fruit?
Thu 17 Oct 2019
How a shortage of fruit pickers is affecting our food.
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How to cook for a megastar
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Private chefs take us into the extravagant and sometimes disturbing world of celebrity
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Down on the farm: Suicide, stress and farmers
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Why mental illness is a big problem for global agriculture
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Ken Hom: My life in five dishes
Thu 19 Sep 2019
The famous Chinese-American cook tells us about his life through food
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Foraging: Pleasure or profit?
Thu 5 Sep 2019
Should we be worried about money changing hands for wild ingredients?
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The young pub bosses reviving the British boozer
Thu 22 Aug 2019
A new generation's plan to preserve a cultural institution in decline.
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Dynasties
Thu 15 Aug 2019
How well do family and work really mix when it comes to the food business?
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Blogs! Money! Power!
Thu 8 Aug 2019
How food writers are using blogs and social media to change what and how you eat.
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Angela Hartnett: My life in five dishes
Thu 18 Jul 2019
The top UK chef on her Italian roots and surviving in Gordon Ramsay's kitchen
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The pig plague
Thu 11 Jul 2019
A deadly virus is devastating the world's biggest pork producers - how can it be stopped?
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When is a burger not a burger?
Thu 4 Jul 2019
Why meat and plant-based food producers are at war over words
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The quest for black gold
Thu 27 Jun 2019
How to encourage more people to compost their food waste and persuade farmers to use it
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How not to run a restaurant
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Three restaurateurs on why they walked away from their life-long dream.
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Lunches changing lives
Thu 13 Jun 2019
Akshaya Patra, the world's largest school meals programme, is our 2019 Global Champion
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Finding a food champion: The finalists
Thu 6 Jun 2019
The people changing the way we produce, consume and think about food.
Food Chain highlights
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