Podcast Episodes

Samin Nosrat: My life in five dishes

The award-winning star of Netflix series 'Salt, Fat, Acid Heat' and author of the best-selling cookbook of the same name tells us about her life thro…

7 years ago

Bitter sweets

Could candy be the next target in the global fight against rising levels of obesity and diabetes? Dozens of governments have already imposed taxes on…

7 years ago

Food on the streets: London and Los Angeles

How do you eat when you have no home? Nowhere to store food, nowhere to cook, no table to eat at?

In this episode we are with homeless people in two o…

7 years ago

Organic Inc

At heart, the organic movement is driven by ethics, not market-forces. It started out as a reaction to large-scale industrial agriculture, with an an…

7 years ago

Widowed: Food after loss

In the second of two James Beard Award-winning episodes on food and grief, Emily Thomas explores the food experiences of the widowed.

In parts of the …

7 years, 1 month ago

Raw grief

Emily Thomas explores how food can help us navigate through the darkest of times - the days, weeks, and even years following the death of someone we …

7 years, 1 month ago

The pot washers

Do you know who’s washing your dishes?

Emily Thomas talks to pot washers from around the world, about what they love and loathe about life at the sin…

7 years, 1 month ago

An inspector calls

Restaurateurs with guns, chefs wielding knives, and severed heads in bin bags. Life as a food inspector is a lot more fraught than you might think.

E…

7 years, 1 month ago

How to tell a food story

What happens when food meets fiction? In this programme from the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, presenter Emily Thomas is joined by a panel of …

7 years, 2 months ago

Gut feelings

There are trillions of bacteria living in our guts and there's growing evidence that they can have a major impact on our mental well-being. So could …

7 years, 2 months ago