Podcast Episodes

Eat Your Art Out: How Art Makes Us Eat

Eating with our eyes is no new concept, but can visual art itself inspire or alter the way we eat? and can food be used to help more people appreciat…

4 years, 7 months ago

Tom Kerridge: A Life Through Food

Tom Kerridge is probably best known as the first chef in the UK to be awarded two prestigious Michelin stars for food served in a pub, not even a yea…

4 years, 7 months ago

India's Covid Crisis: The Food Story

Dan Saladino looks at covid's impact on food in India and the heroic efforts underway to feed communities.

Lockdowns and job losses have disrupted ac…

4 years, 7 months ago

Socially Distanced Dining: Indoor restaurants reopen again

As hospitality businesses in most parts of the UK are allowed to resume serving customers indoors this week, Leyla Kazim heads to Padstow to meet a c…

4 years, 7 months ago

Pure umami: should we learn to love MSG?

Monosodium Glutamate is probably one of the most contentious ingredients in modern food. Increasingly there have been calls to tackle the stigma att…

4 years, 8 months ago

1971: A year that changed food forever?

Dan Saladino asks if the year 1971 was a turning point for how the world eats?

It was a year of contrasts: McDonalds increased the portion sizes of t…

4 years, 8 months ago

The Joy of Heat

The chilli revolution of the past decade has made the UK a nation of chilli-jam lovers, and windowsill spice-growers. But our desire for the fiery …

4 years, 8 months ago

A Nominations Celebration

The BBC Food and Farming Awards are back for their 20th edition, ready to celebrate the people across the UK who are changing lives for the better, t…

4 years, 8 months ago

Lab-grown meat: How long before it's on a menu near you?

The first lab-grown beef burger was cooked and eaten in London in 2013. Since then more than 15 types of meat have been re-created by food scientists…

4 years, 8 months ago

The Urban Growing Revolution

Planting and growing food has had a massive boost during the pandemic - and that hasn't been limited to those with gardens.

Right across the country, …

4 years, 9 months ago