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Got Gumbo?
What can one single dish tell you about America's history?
The Plankton Problem
The organisms at the centre of our food web are stressed - and it affects your plate.
Wheelchair Fajitas and Talking Scales
A look at the important role food plays for people who have, or acquire, a disability.
Post-Truth Food
Understanding the truth about food shortages and how they are reported.
McAsia?
What fast food can tell us about the changing global economy.
The Food We Breathe
How your next meal might affect your next breath
Poor Old Potato
Is the potato the 'food of the poor'?
One Potato More
Is the humble spud the solution to the global food supply?
Hey, Hey We're The Food Chain
The best pick of our award-winning programme which explores everything you eat.
Orthorexia Nervosa: When 'Healthy' Food Becomes Harmful
When the pursuit of quality food destroys quality of life.
Little Kitchen of Horrors
The scary, frightening, and spooky stories that we like to tell about what we eat.
Liberte, Egalite, Gastronomie?
What does French food tell us about the country's future?
The Fish Japan Ate
The wild bluefin tuna is being eaten to extinction. Can Japan afford to keep serving it?
I Don't Cook
This is definitely not a cookery programme
Foodunnit?
How does food help solve crime?
The Real Value of a Cup of Tea
Do you pay enough for your cup of tea?
Hands Off My Food!
When is it OK to profit from the cuisine of a culture you were not born into?
Talking Rot
When does old food become bad food?
Much Ado About Michelin
The allure and mystique of the Michelin star
What Time is Dinner?
How social class has determined when we eat.
Food Secrets of Centenarians
To what extent can your diet help you live longer?
The Unlikely Power of Cookbooks
How cookbooks have been used to demonstrate power, ideology and divide society
Fortification: Too Much of a Good thing?
Who is putting micro-nutrients in your food - and who really benefits?
Hunting with the Hadza
Eat with one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer communities
Health lessons with the Hadza
Could East African hunter-gatherers lead us to the ideal human diet?
Have We Cracked the Nut Problem?
Drugs to treat peanut allergy are close to getting approval. But why now?
What Will You Eat if the Apocalypse Comes?
Meet the people stockpiling food for any eventuality.
Stockpiles? What Stockpiles?
Is your government stockpiling enough food?
Is Social Media Putting You Off Your Lunch?
Is social media kindling or killing our relationship with food?
Upper Crust?
What the bread we eat can tell us about ourselves.
The Art of Fermentation
We travel to Tennessee to meet Sandor Katz, a man fascinated by fermentation.