The Food Chain Podcast
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
Episodes to download
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Bouillon: The story of stock
Thu 27 Feb 2025
How the simplest dish influenced restaurants and cuisine today
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Masters of the craft
Thu 20 Feb 2025
What motivates someone to dedicate years of their life to learning one skill?
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How to make a TV cooking show
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Three TV cooking programme producers provide the secret ingredients to a hit cooking show
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The world's oldest restaurants
Thu 6 Feb 2025
How has the oldest restaurant in the world stayed open for 300 years?
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Is anyone following dietary guidelines?
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Exploring how realistic official healthy-eating advice is
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Should we eat less rice?
Thu 16 Jan 2025
This staple grain is impacted by and contributes to climate change
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What's the point of cookbooks?
Thu 9 Jan 2025
We ask why people are still willing to pay for recipes
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Has Christmas food gone mad?
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Inside the race for creating the most eye-catching festive flavours
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Stadium food
Thu 12 Dec 2024
The best 鈥� and worst 鈥� things to eat at sports grounds across the world
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Croffle, anyone?
Thu 5 Dec 2024
The rise of the dessert caf茅 and the extraordinary creations it鈥檚 spawned
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How did fast food become so successful?
Thu 28 Nov 2024
The story of how fast-food chains took over the world
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We are 10!
Thu 21 Nov 2024
We are celebrating 10 years of The Food Chain with some of our favourite moments
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Just vanilla
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Underappreciated and unfairly maligned. Is vanilla worth reconsidering?
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Living with water shortages
Thu 24 Oct 2024
The cities living with drought and limited water supplies
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How much water should I drink?
Thu 10 Oct 2024
How your age, sex, and geographic location impact how much water you need
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Can you taste a place?
Thu 3 Oct 2024
Terroir is usually associated with wine, but does it exist in food?
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So you want to run a food truck?
Thu 26 Sep 2024
Tips from the people running mobile food businesses
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How 鈥楤angla Town鈥� changed a nation's food culture
Thu 19 Sep 2024
The legacy of Bangladeshi-run restaurants in London鈥檚 Brick Lane
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How risky is drinking alcohol?
Thu 29 Aug 2024
We look at what the evidence says about the health risks of drinking alcohol
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What does collagen do for you?
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Cosmetic companies and A-listers recommend it, but how sure is the science?
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The business of food halls
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Why bringing multiple food retailers under one roof is profitable
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First impressions of a new food culture
Thu 8 Aug 2024
Stories of culinary discovery from across the world
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What Olympians eat
Thu 25 Jul 2024
We find out about the diets of elite athletes and how to cater for them
Food Chain highlights
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