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The Food Chain — 138 episodes

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1

Pesticide exports

2

Food for new mums

3

Eco scores on food labels

4

How to read a menu

5

Cooking in extreme places

6

Why is food so expensive in Ghana?

7

The rise of private chefs

8

How to feed a city

9

Can you eat your way to 100?

10

Bonnie Garmus: My life in five dishes

11

Alice Waters: My life in five dishes

12

How to feed a footballer

13

Is it time to add vitamin D to food?

14

The food that broke through lockdown

15

Should the US abandon tipping?

16

A year in the life of a Chinese restaurant

17

Portion distortion

18

How to love chillies

19

The man taking on fast food

20

America's 'food apartheid'

21

The blind cooks

22

Dan Barber: My life in five dishes

23

What's the appetite for gene edited food?

24

Do we need to talk about ‘ultra-processed food’?

25

Inside the mind of a kitchen gadget

26

Raymond Blanc: My life in five dishes

27

The school that food built

28

The lure of on-demand groceries

29

The endurance diet

30

Life lessons from the honey bee

31

Is it time to kill the calorie?

32

Should 'junk food' sponsor sport?

33

Is there a ‘chefsplainer’ in your kitchen?

34

The unstoppable rise of starch

35

The power of a photograph

36

OCD, the kitchen, and me

37

Cooking by computer

38

The bug business

39

The drinking experiment

40

Last orders: Why I quit hospitality

41

A farmer's nightmare

42

One small change

43

How to cope with cooking burnout

44

How a new cuisine is born

45

Gabriella D'Cruz: Global Youth Champion

46

How rationing changed me

47

(Film) Set menu

48

An alternative Christmas

49

Why I chose to live on rations

50

The Food Chain unwrapped

51

So, you think you can quit caffeine?

52

Sleep, eat, repeat?

53

How not to feed a dog

54

Cancer, food and me

55

The sisters who can 'taste' words

56

The constipation taboo

57

The online food fighters

58

The recipe collectors

59

An invisible crime

60

A Ukrainian kitchen in London

61

Food in the metaverse

62

Food poverty in a rich country

63

Tasting climate change

64

How to date a carnivore

65

The cost of 'getting ripped'

66

The problem with wheat

67

How a stoma changed my life

68

Feeding the imagination

69

Shop like the Queen

70

The recipe translators

71

What's up with airline food?

72

Menopause and diet

73

Lemn Sissay: My life in five dishes

74

The fungi kingdom

75

In search of a food champion

76

Why use food for fuel?

77

Fuelling a female footballer

78

The food illustrators

79

What can we do about drought?

80

Liquid gold: The price of cooking oil

81

Tomorrow’s food crops

82

Running a restaurant with your relatives

83

Inside food safety scares

84

The flavourists

85

Food for mood

86

Who owns seeds?

87

Inheriting grandma's pan

88

Can farmers influence food prices?

89

What do astronauts eat?

90

Forbidden food: The Jews of Spain

91

The buffet business

92

Island diets

93

Eating With Our Ears: The Sound of Food

94

Food as rehabilitation

95

Samuel Ikua: Global Youth Champion 2022

96

Eggonomics

97

Why does Africa import a lot of food?

98

A Ukrainian table at Christmas

99

Hard to swallow

100

Cooking with love

101

Chefs who changed course

102

The opera singer's diet

103

The ghost writers

104

Why can’t my child swallow?

105

What's the big deal about fine dining?

106

What's the best pasta shape?

107

The growth of food banks in Africa

108

Feeding the VIPs

109

The joy of feeding birds

110

A taste of home

111

How to photograph food

112

What do medics really eat?

113

Can small farms feed the world?

114

Bringing dark kitchens into the light

115

Is this the end of the British caff?

116

How AI could design our diets

117

The growth of GM food

118

A dish fit for the King

119

Should we farm octopus?

120

Is the food you’re eating what you think it is?

121

Teaching tomorrow's chefs

122

Let’s take a lunch break!

123

How did TV cooking competitions get so big?

124

The power of heritage brands

125

Can you feed a city from its rooftops?

126

How did salt get so gourmet?

127

How I learnt to cook

128

What the wedding caterer is really thinking

129

Africa's forgotten foods

130

Immersive dining

131

This kid cooks

132

The Little Italy story

133

Banh mi: A sandwich with a story

134

Stop chewing like that!

135

Feeding baby

136

The art of food diplomacy

137

The taste test

138

What's in a national dish?