Should China ban 'wet' markets?

They’ve been blamed for coronavirus, but some say calls to close them are misguided

• 26 mins

Dan Barber: My life in five dishes

How true flavour will revolutionise food and the mistake that re-focused his life's work.

• 28 mins

Is our food creating pandemics?

How farming can release deadly viruses from the wild.

• 26 mins

Has the crisis made us more generous?

The anatomy of empathy in a crisis.

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: The survival business

The food entrepreneurs forced to innovate to stay afloat during the pandemic.

• 26 mins

Is lockdown good news for fish?

What coronavirus means for ailing fish stocks.

• 26 mins

Losing your taste to coronavirus

The common Covid-19 symptom that's often overlooked, but can be permanent.

• 26 mins

Jacques Pépin: My life in five dishes

How a near fatal car crash set an immigrant French chef on the path to US TV stardom

• 34 mins

Does comfort food really comfort us?

It’s something many of us intuitively believe, but it’s not always that simple

• 26 mins

Dominique Crenn: My life in five dishes

How a six-month-old orphan went on to become a three Michelin star chef

• 31 mins

Single parents: Cooking solo

The loneliness, the responsibility, the money, and food's power to create unique bonds

• 26 mins

Meatpacking's coronavirus problem

The unique conditions that have led to global outbreaks at meat processing plants

• 26 mins

Food media's moment of reckoning?

Resignations, racism and revolt changing the way we write about food

• 26 mins

Sean Sherman: My life in five dishes

The chef fighting to bring true Native American cuisine back from the brink of extinction

• 32 mins

Margarita Forés: My life in five dishes

The Filipina chef on privilege, battling bulimia, and finding her identity through food

• 30 mins

The fertiliser that blew up Beirut

A little-known chemical that changed the world

• 29 mins

The preppers and the pandemic

Has coronavirus shown we should all be preppers now?

• 27 mins

Coronavirus: Obesity's defining moment?

Could the pandemic make the world tackle its obesity problem?

• 27 mins

Plundering the planet under cover of coronavirus

The animals and forests being used for survival and profit in the pandemic's shadow

• 35 mins

Facing fat hatred

Why do fat people experience so much hatred?

• 28 mins

How does food make a president?

How food is used to win over voters in the US election

• 29 mins

One election, two farmers

The human stories of the battleground farms of Wisconsin

• 26 mins

How to enjoy eating with your own children

Three parents explain how they persuaded their children to behave better at mealtimes

• 28 mins

Opening a restaurant in a pandemic

Three people who braved opening a food business during the pandemic

• 27 mins

Selassie Atadika: My life in five dishes

The humanitarian aid worker-turned chef trying to empower a continent through its food

• 35 mins

The power of food emojis

How food emojis make it to your keyboard and why it matters

• 26 mins

Why the whale hunt continues

The real reasons some countries swim against the tide of international opinion

• 31 mins

The chef who took on hospital food

How do you put the hospitality back into hospital food?

• 27 mins

Sourdough love stories

We meet some very old (bread) mothers and the families that care for them

• 29 mins

Lockdown food fails

Coronavirus has sent more of us into the kitchen, but has it taught us how to cook?

• 27 mins

What's food got to do with destiny?

The power of superstition, ritual and the belief in magic

• 27 mins

Too many cookbooks?

Two women, 8000 cookbooks

• 26 mins

Yotam Ottolenghi: My life in five dishes

The ‘philosopher chef’ on the pandemic, the magic of pastry, and finding peace in cooking

• 31 mins

The arctic eating adventure

The Yukon mother who fed her three teenagers on local food for a year

• 30 mins

Divided by drink: A tale from dry America

The other big vote that took place in the US last November

• 29 mins

Nigella Lawson: My life in five dishes

The British food writer and TV cook tells us about her life through food

• 37 mins

Has coronavirus changed school meals for ever?

How a school meal is so much more than food

• 32 mins

Alice Waters: My life in five dishes

The influential chef and activist explains how she started a food revolution

• 34 mins

How to feed a footballer

How football affects food for players and the people around them

• 29 mins

Is it time to add vitamin D to food?

Coronavirus has strengthened calls for action on the 'sunshine vitamin' problem

• 29 mins

The food that broke through lockdown

Four stories of love, friendship and food during lockdown

• 28 mins

Should the US abandon tipping?

As coronavirus batters restaurants, is now the time to shake up their unique wage system?

• 26 mins

A year in the life of a Chinese restaurant

The food businesses trying to stay afloat through coronavirus and a storm of racist abuse

• 26 mins

Portion distortion

How the food industry convinced us to upsize, and why shrinking portions is so hard

• 31 mins

How to love chillies

Three cooks explain how you can teach a child to embrace hot food.

• 26 mins

The man taking on fast food

Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, on the movement's relevance in a post-pandemic world

• 31 mins

America's 'food apartheid'

Life without easy access to affordable, fresh food in Albany and St. Louis

• 26 mins

The blind cooks

Learning to cook after sight-loss and empowering others to do the same

• 28 mins

What's the appetite for gene edited food?

Scientists claim it’s the future, but can they convince us to eat it?

• 36 mins

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

The debate over ultra-processed foods and whether we should avoid them

• 34 mins

Inside the mind of a kitchen gadget

The philosophy and passion behind your kitchen tools.

• 27 mins

Raymond Blanc: My life in five dishes

The renowned French chef tells his life story through five dishes.

• 35 mins

The school that food built

One headteacher's mission to put food at the heart of all learning

• 36 mins

The lure of on-demand groceries

The obvious next step in our busy lives, or a cause for concern?

• 27 mins

The endurance diet

How athletes feed themselves during extreme sporting events

• 28 mins

Life lessons from the honey bee

What can these tiny pollinators can teach us about our world and ourselves?

• 29 mins

Should 'junk food' sponsor sport?

The fizzy drink and burger brands backing everything from the Olympics to junior football

• 30 mins

Is it time to kill the calorie?

Why many of us misunderstand calories, and why it matters.

• 32 mins

Is there a ‘chefsplainer’ in your kitchen?

Why some people can’t resist telling others exactly how to cook

• 29 mins

The unstoppable rise of starch

The most important processed food ingredient you’ve probably never thought about

• 30 mins

The power of a photograph

Can a still image change the way we think about our food?

• 35 mins

OCD, the kitchen, and me

Cooking, eating and living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

• 28 mins

Cooking by computer

How Covid-19 inspired a new world of virtual cooking classes

• 27 mins

The bug business

How do you convince more people to eat insects?

• 28 mins

The drinking experiment

What happens when you give up alcohol in a drinking culture?

• 27 mins

Last orders: Why I quit hospitality

Three former restaurant staff on why the pandemic prompted them to leave

• 28 mins

A farmer's nightmare

A major worker shortage leaving UK farmers with heartbreaking choices

• 26 mins

One small change

Your stories of small, achievable changes around food to help the environment

• 28 mins

How to cope with cooking burnout

Three food lovers on why the Covid-19 pandemic has sucked the joy out of the kitchen

• 28 mins

How a new cuisine is born

The evolution of ‘Cape-Malay’ and ‘Viet-Cajun’ cuisines

• 28 mins

Gabriella D'Cruz: Global Youth Champion

This year's award-winner and her mission to change lives and revive oceans using seaweed

• 28 mins

How rationing changed me

A German and a Brit share food memories of growing up during World War Two

• 27 mins

(Film) Set menu

The gruelling job of feeding cast and crew on a major movie or TV production

• 27 mins

An alternative Christmas

Japan's love affair with fried chicken and the story of a very Chinese Jewish Christmas

• 28 mins

Why I chose to live on rations

What powdered eggs and tinned ham can teach us about our modern food system

• 27 mins

The Food Chain unwrapped

Revisiting some of the most powerful food stories from the pandemic

• 27 mins

So, you think you can quit caffeine?

Three people who tried giving up the world’s most commonly-used psychoactive drug

• 29 mins

Sleep, eat, repeat?

The vicious circle of too little rest and too much of the wrong food

• 32 mins

How not to feed a dog

What we feed our four-legged friends and what it reveals about our relationship with food

• 28 mins

Cancer, food and me

Three women discuss how chemotherapy has changed their relationship with food

• 27 mins

The sisters who can 'taste' words

The weird and wonderful world of synaesthesia - a puzzling neurological phenomenon

• 28 mins

The constipation taboo

What we could learn about our health and happiness if constipation was normalised

• 31 mins

The online food fighters

The people taking on misinformation about food and nutrition on social media

• 28 mins

The recipe collectors

The challenge of preserving recipes and what is at stake if they are lost

• 28 mins

An invisible crime

Why drink spiking is misunderstood and underreported and how it can change

• 26 mins

A Ukrainian kitchen in London

Two cookbook authors – one Russian, one Ukrainian – share memories of food and friendship

• 27 mins

Food in the metaverse

What food could look like in virtual worlds and what it means for restaurants

• 28 mins

Food poverty in a rich country

Three UK citizens discuss how difficult it can be to feed a family on a low income

• 27 mins

Tasting climate change

Wine producers say a warming planet can be detected in the glass

• 27 mins

How to date a carnivore

The highs and lows of being with someone who loves eating meat

• 29 mins

The cost of 'getting ripped'

Three men discuss the reality of pursuing a six-pack and how much of it is about food

• 29 mins

The hot sauce sensations

How Sriracha and Lao Gan Ma achieved global cult status

• 27 mins

The problem with wheat

Are we too reliant on one crop for our nutritional needs?

• 27 mins

How a stoma changed my life

Living with a stoma bag, and learning what to eat, and when

• 27 mins

Feeding the imagination

Two novelists discuss how food fuels their creativity

• 27 mins

Shop like the Queen

What does the Queen eat? We find out how you get a royal warrant

• 27 mins

The recipe translators

We speak to the people who translate recipe books into different languages

• 27 mins

What's up with airline food?

The highs and lows of in-flight dining

• 27 mins

Menopause and diet

Which foods could help ease your symptoms?

• 28 mins