The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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The endurance diet
How athletes feed themselves during extreme sporting events
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The lure of on-demand groceries
The obvious next step in our busy lives, or a cause for concern?
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The school that food built
One headteacher's mission to put food at the heart of all learning
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Raymond Blanc: My life in five dishes
The renowned French chef tells his life story through five dishes.
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Inside the mind of a kitchen gadget
The philosophy and passion behind your kitchen tools.
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Do we need to talk about ‘ultra-processed food’?
The debate over ultra-processed foods and whether we should avoid them
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What's the appetite for gene edited food?
Scientists claim it’s the future, but can they convince us to eat it?
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The blind cooks
Learning to cook after sight-loss and empowering others to do the same
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America's 'food apartheid'
Life without easy access to affordable, fresh food in Albany and St. Louis
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The man taking on fast food
Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, on the movement's relevance in a post-pandemic world
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How to love chillies
Three cooks explain how you can teach a child to embrace hot food.
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Portion distortion
How the food industry convinced us to upsize, and why shrinking portions is so hard
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A year in the life of a Chinese restaurant
The food businesses trying to stay afloat through coronavirus and a storm of racist abuse
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Should the US abandon tipping?
As coronavirus batters restaurants, is now the time to shake up their unique wage system?
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The food that broke through lockdown
Four stories of love, friendship and food during lockdown
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Is it time to add vitamin D to food?
Coronavirus has strengthened calls for action on the 'sunshine vitamin' problem
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How to feed a footballer
How football affects food for players and the people around them
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Alice Waters: My life in five dishes
The influential chef and activist explains how she started a food revolution
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Has coronavirus changed school meals for ever?
How a school meal is so much more than food
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Nigella Lawson: My life in five dishes
The British food writer and TV cook tells us about her life through food
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Divided by drink: A tale from dry America
The other big vote that took place in the US last November
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The arctic eating adventure
The Yukon mother who fed her three teenagers on local food for a year
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Yotam Ottolenghi: My life in five dishes
The ‘philosopher chef’ on the pandemic, the magic of pastry, and finding peace in cooking
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Too many cookbooks?
Two women, 8000 cookbooks
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What's food got to do with destiny?
The power of superstition, ritual and the belief in magic
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Lockdown food fails
Coronavirus has sent more of us into the kitchen, but has it taught us how to cook?
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Sourdough love stories
We meet some very old (bread) mothers and the families that care for them
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The chef who took on hospital food
How do you put the hospitality back into hospital food?
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Why the whale hunt continues
The real reasons some countries swim against the tide of international opinion
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The power of food emojis
How food emojis make it to your keyboard and why it matters