The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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The Fish Japan Ate
The wild bluefin tuna is being eaten to extinction. Can Japan afford to keep serving it?
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Liberte, Egalite, Gastronomie?
What does French food tell us about the country's future?
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Little Kitchen of Horrors
The scary, frightening, and spooky stories that we like to tell about what we eat.
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Orthorexia Nervosa: When 'Healthy' Food Becomes Harmful
When the pursuit of quality food destroys quality of life.
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Hey, Hey We're The Food Chain
The best pick of our award-winning programme which explores everything you eat.
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One Potato More
Is the humble spud the solution to the global food supply?
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Poor Old Potato
Is the potato the 'food of the poor'?
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The Food We Breathe
How your next meal might affect your next breath
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McAsia?
What fast food can tell us about the changing global economy.
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Post-Truth Food
Understanding the truth about food shortages and how they are reported.
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Wheelchair Fajitas and Talking Scales
A look at the important role food plays for people who have, or acquire, a disability.
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The Plankton Problem
The organisms at the centre of our food web are stressed - and it affects your plate.
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Got Gumbo?
What can one single dish tell you about America's history?
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The Queen of Creole
Can a restaurant help to change the course of a country?
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Should You Drink Your Food?
We speak to a man who drank his food for 30 days, and explore liquefied food.
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Of Maize and Men: Unpicked
The most abundant crop on earth is maize. We ask if we consume too much of it.
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Of Maize and Men: The Rise
The story of how one crop came to be the world's most important ingredient.
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Food Chain: The Quiz
Take part in the ultimate test of culinary trivia in our inaugural quiz
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Food Chain: The Musical
How we view our food - and ourselves - through song.
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Survival Stories: 鈥榃e Ate Spiders, Flies and Worms鈥�
Two students tell us their survival diet whilst lost in a remote part of Turkey.
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Hunger in the Rich World
Why do people struggle to feed themselves in wealthy societies?
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The Hidden Cost of a Home-Cooked Meal
The sacrifices made by some women to put a meal on the family table.
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Full English Brexit
What happens to food on the British breakfast table in a post-Brexit world?
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Burnt
The story of what happens when we turn up the heat on what we eat.
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In Search of Lost Foods
What happens to a food when people stop eating it?
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Plate of the Union
What does our diet say about our politics?
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Dining with the Dead
Death's role in centuries of food culture, from corpse cakes to Mexico's Day of the Dead.
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Vegan Babies: Should You Restrict Your Child鈥檚 Diet?
Are parents wrong to impose their own restrictive diets on their children?
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Should We All Be Vegans?
What would happen if everyone stopped eating animal products?
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Stories from Syria
How do people living through the Syrian conflict find food?
