Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFood of Love
From a baby’s first cry to the funeral feast: food as the language of love. This week, the Food Chain examines the link between our food and our feel…
10 years, 9 months ago
Chicken: Too Much of a Good Thing?
We explore one of the world’s most important foods - the chicken. It is set to become the world’s most popular protein in four years time, surpassing…
10 years, 9 months ago
How to (Not) Grow Your Food Business
Do you have a family recipe that friends say you should bottle and sell? Simon Jack looks at how you can grow a food business from scratch, how to ch…
10 years, 11 months ago
Sexual Politics in the Kitchen
How does our gender affect our relationship with food? Does it determine what we want to eat, how we cook or what we buy? And as gender roles change,…
10 years, 11 months ago
The End of Eating Wild Fish?
Most of the food we eat - beef chicken, wheat, apples, corn - is farmed on the land, produced under controlled conditions and transported to market r…
10 years, 11 months ago
How Do We Know What’s Good For Us?
Why is food advice so confusing? Up for debate is the role of fat in our diet. Adrian Golberg takes a look at the methods behind determining what foo…
11 years ago
Spice and Status
A deeper look at the global network of commerce that comes with the flavouring of our food. Marnie Chesterton visits the UK's Kew Gardens, and gets a…
11 years ago
Coffee: Globalisation’s Drink of Choice
How the coffee industry is changing for growers, sellers, and consumers around the world. This week's programme follows in pursuit of a widely trade…
11 years ago
Fighting Food Crime
We meet some of the people fighting food fraud around the world. Manuela Saragosa asks what risks the consumer faces when they buy food that has rea…
11 years, 2 months ago
Picky Eaters
Why won’t your kid eat broccoli? And should you bother to force them? We ask whether children need a different diet, do their palates differ, and whe…
11 years, 2 months ago