The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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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 – one Russian, one Ukrainian – 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’s 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
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How rationing changed me
A German and a Brit share food memories of growing up during World War Two
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Gabriella D'Cruz: Global Youth Champion
This year's award-winner and her mission to change lives and revive oceans using seaweed
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How a new cuisine is born
The evolution of ‘Cape-Malay’ and ‘Viet-Cajun’ cuisines
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How to cope with cooking burnout
Three food lovers on why the Covid-19 pandemic has sucked the joy out of the kitchen
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One small change
Your stories of small, achievable changes around food to help the environment
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A farmer's nightmare
A major worker shortage leaving UK farmers with heartbreaking choices
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Last orders: Why I quit hospitality
Three former restaurant staff on why the pandemic prompted them to leave
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The drinking experiment
What happens when you give up alcohol in a drinking culture?
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The bug business
How do you convince more people to eat insects?
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Cooking by computer
How Covid-19 inspired a new world of virtual cooking classes
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OCD, the kitchen, and me
Cooking, eating and living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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The power of a photograph
Can a still image change the way we think about our food?
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The unstoppable rise of starch
The most important processed food ingredient you’ve probably never thought about
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Is there a ‘chefsplainer’ in your kitchen?
Why some people can’t resist telling others exactly how to cook
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Is it time to kill the calorie?
Why many of us misunderstand calories, and why it matters.