The Food Chain

The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes t

Episodes

Total: 482

Going Off Cow's Milk?

2018/9/20

Emily Thomas asks whether we’re on a slow but steady path to abandoning our pervasive, long-standing

Widowed: Food After Loss

2018/9/13

In the second of two episodes on food and grief, Emily Thomas explores the food experiences of the w

Raw grief

2018/9/6

In the first of two episodes on food and grief, Emily Thomas explores how food can help us navigate

Emily Thomas asks whether the curious phenomenon of the celebrity chef, is undergoing a metamorphosi

The Invisible Ingredient

2018/8/22

We’re killing time on The Food Chain this week. From crops that grow in just eight weeks, to whole m

Meet the Michelin-starred chef who, when he hears word of a natural disaster, jumps on a plane to ge

We sit down with one of R&B’s most eccentric and compelling artists, Kelis. Over the past 20 yea

The Food Chain listens back to My Life in Five Dishes with the renowned Egyptian cookery writer Clau

The Food Chain listens back to My Life in Five Dishes with chef and broadcaster Gordon Ramsay, origi

Antonio Carluccio describes his most memorable dishes in his last ever interview. The cook, restaura

Join us for five unforgettable dishes from one extraordinary life as the food writer and actress Mad

Meet the pioneering, opinionated and inscrutable Jeremiah Tower, one of the most controversial figur

#MeToo Food

2018/6/28

Has the #MeToo movement permeated our food chain?Emily Thomas explores the hidden problem of sexual

The Real Junk Food

2018/6/21

This is the story of a man who struggled with homelessness and addiction, before being hit by a bold

Pony Tales

2018/6/6

Should we eat more horse meat? In some parts of the world it is a food taboo, while in others people

I am the Bread Man

2018/5/30

Dan Saladino meets the mastermind behind one of biggest bread research projects ever undertaken. Nat

We sit down with one of R&B’s most eccentric and compelling artists - singer-songwriter Kelis. O

Critical Mass Catering

2018/5/16

In a nod to the British royal wedding, we are super-sizing the Food Chain this week as we explore co

Absolute Food: Part II

2018/5/9

Food is propaganda in this episode of The Food Chain.In the second part of our two week exploration

Absolute Food: Part I

2018/5/3

How do authoritarian regimes use food to control and manipulate? In the first of two episodes explor