The Food Chain

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

Episodes

Total: 472

The Food Pilgrims

2018/2/1

Can you think of a food you would travel across continents for? Emily Thomas meets people who have g

I Can't Taste!

2018/1/25

If you could not taste your food, what would you eat? Would you even want to? Taste disorders are ra

Chef Gordon Ramsay is world-famous but, he tells us, people no longer want to talk about his food. T

Wine has been getting more and more alcoholic in recent decades, driven by consumer tastes and clima

The Comedy of Food

2018/1/4

Does food ever make you laugh out loud? We try to stand up the theory that food is getting funnier b

Technology giants are gobbling up the online grocery market - and over the past year we’ve seen Amaz

Food Chain: The Quiz 2017

2017/12/21

Have you ever wondered what to do with a watermelon outside the kitchen? Or how many hot dogs a pers

How to Make a Farmer

2017/12/14

Fancy a career change? If you're not doing it already, what would it take to make you a farmer? Woul

I Won't Farm!

2017/12/7

The average age of farmers globally is thought to be around 60, and rising. So where have all the yo

Why have so few African cuisines made it onto the world’s culinary stage? Whether it's Michelin star

The 'Disneyland' of Food?

2017/11/23

We're in Bologna, Italy as FICO Eataly World opens its doors to a curious public. Its mission is to

Chewing gum seems to be on a mission to reinvent itself. There’s little we’re told it can’t do these

Contain Yourself!

2017/11/2

Does your favourite drink taste better from a bottle, cup or can? Are foods enhanced by particular p

What happens to your body when you eat 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes, and why would thousands of people

We speak to some of the world's most successful competitive eaters and find out how, and why, they d

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

A Fly Future?

2017/9/28

We're in South Africa again to find out whether fly larvae could help humans eat more meat and fish.

The Maggot Masters

2017/9/21

This week we’re in South Africa, picking up great big squirming handfuls of maggots. Could these unp

Cow Candy

2017/9/14

Why do farmers feed their cows sweets? What are the implications for the animals’ health, the enviro

Finding a Food Champion

2017/9/7

Meet the people determined to revolutionise what and how we eat as we launch our first ever internat