The Food Chain
Coronavirus: Chefs fight back
Some of the world’s top restaurateurs are refusing to take lockdown lying down
- 26 mins
- 30 Apr 2020
BBC Sounds - The Food Chain - Available Episodes
The Food Chain
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
Episodes (298 Available)
The Food ChainDeath by coronavirus or hunger?
The tough question being faced by many in developing countries.
- 26 mins
- 23 Apr 2020
The Food ChainMy quarantine kitchen
Stories of comfort, solidarity and hope behind closed doors in the coronavirus pandemic.
- 26 mins
- 16 Apr 2020
The Food ChainCoronavirus: Food’s frontline heroes
The people stepping up to keep food flowing
- 26 mins
- 09 Apr 2020
The Food ChainCoronavirus: Where did all the food go?
The impact of stockpiling and lockdown on the global food supply chain.
- 26 mins
- 02 Apr 2020
The Food ChainHow not to run a brewery
Three craft brewers on why they walked away from their dream job.
- 26 mins
- 26 Mar 2020
The Food ChainThe mystery of mukbang
Why do millions of people go online to watch total strangers binge-eat junk food?
- 26 mins
- 19 Mar 2020
The Food ChainThe end of the road for street food?
Why a much-loved and much-needed part of life in South East Asia is under threat.
- 26 mins
- 12 Mar 2020
The Food ChainFried chicken: Fast food champion
The power of battered poultry and how it has come to achieve global domination
- 26 mins
- 05 Mar 2020
The Food ChainMade in space
How answers to some of agriculture's biggest questions could be found beyond Earth
- 26 mins
- 27 Feb 2020
The Food ChainWhy are people putting chemicals in our food?
Three food scientists tell us how they manipulate flavour, shelf-life and appearance
- 26 mins
- 20 Feb 2020
The Food ChainNobu Matsuhisa: My life in five dishes
How the chef went from considering suicide to running a restaurant empire with De Niro
- 28 mins
- 13 Feb 2020
The Food ChainWhy is wheat making people sick?
The emerging condition linked to gluten and the fight over how to treat it
- 27 mins
- 06 Feb 2020
The Food ChainThe tipping point
Two restaurant owners trying to change two very different dining cultures
- 28 mins
- 30 Jan 2020
The Food ChainFantasy, fiction and food
How to create characters, meaning, and even entirely new worlds through food.
- 26 mins
- 23 Jan 2020
The Food ChainWhat's climate change doing to cows?
Farm vets are seeing worrying signs - can they help make livestock greener?
- 26 mins
- 16 Jan 2020
The Food ChainAsma Khan: My life in five dishes
A disregarded daughter who defied expectation to run one of London's top restaurants
- 26 mins
- 09 Jan 2020
The Food ChainEat the year
Three women who went to extraordinary lengths in search of change
- 26 mins
- 02 Jan 2020
The Food ChainSamin Nosrat: My life in five dishes
The Netflix star and best-selling author rising to the top of the culinary world
- 26 mins
- 26 Dec 2019
The Food ChainI hate Christmas pudding!
Why do some of us still serve traditional holiday foods even though we don't like them?
- 26 mins
- 19 Dec 2019