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Cooking in extreme places

The chefs serving meals up mountains, pizza under the sea and tapas in Antarctica.

Wherever humans go, whatever we do, we need to eat.

In this programme, we meet the people cooking at the extremes.

We hear about the chefs serving up three-course meals on Africa鈥檚 highest peak; the elaborate puddings created on stormy seas with a cruise ship pastry chef; the art of cramming enough food to feed 100 hungry sailors on board a nuclear submarine with a US Navy submarine culinary specialist, and tapas nights in the Antarctic with the chef at Rothera research station.

Presenter: Ruth Alexander

Producers: Rumella Dasgupta and Izzy Greenfield

(Image: Mount Lister in Antarctica, covered in snow and ice. Credit: Getty Images/成人快手)

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk

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27 minutes

Last on

Thu 2 Nov 2023 23:32GMT

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  • Thu 2 Nov 2023 04:32GMT
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