The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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Foraging: Pleasure or profit?
Should we be worried about money changing hands for wild ingredients?
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Ritual slaughter under threat
The debate over animal welfare and religious freedom.
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The young pub bosses reviving the British boozer
A new generation's plan to preserve a cultural institution in decline.
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Dynasties
How well do family and work really mix when it comes to the food business?
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Blogs! Money! Power!
How food writers are using blogs and social media to change what and how you eat.
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Food under siege
When eating well becomes an act of defiance
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Baristas: The daily grind
What the person making your coffee is really thinking.
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Angela Hartnett: My life in five dishes
The top UK chef on her Italian roots and surviving in Gordon Ramsay's kitchen
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The pig plague
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?
Why meat and plant-based food producers are at war over words
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The quest for black gold
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
Three restaurateurs on why they walked away from their life-long dream.
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Lunches changing lives
Akshaya Patra, the world's largest school meals programme, is our 2019 Global Champion
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Finding a food champion: The finalists
The people changing the way we produce, consume and think about food.
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Samin Nosrat: My life in five dishes
The Netflix star and best-selling author rising to the top of the culinary world
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Bitter sweets
Sugar is under attack - will candy be next in the firing line?
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Food on the streets: London and Los Angeles
How do you eat when you have no home?
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Organic Inc
Who really owns organic?
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Widowed: Food after loss
The difficult mix of food and widowhood.
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Raw grief
A tale of food and loss.
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The pot washers
The little heard voices who wash the world's dishes.
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An inspector calls
Guns, knives, and safety alarms. Being a food safety inspector is a risky business
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How to tell a food story
How we use fiction to talk about our food, and how food can help tell stories
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How to tell a food story
How we use fiction to talk about our food, and how food can help tell stories
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Gut feelings
The race to develop food supplements that could treat depression
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When breast isn't best
Three mothers on why they quit breastfeeding, and the stigma that followed
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How to feed the Falklands
The struggle to eat a varied diet on a remote island in the South Atlantic
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How to date a vegan
What to do if you hate the way your partner eats
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When foods get famous
Who cashes in when a fruit or vegetable reaches celebrity status?
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A senseless generation?
Should children be taught to smell, taste, touch and even listen to food?