The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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Running a restaurant with your relatives
One city, two cuisines, multiple family members
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Liquid gold: The price of cooking oil
What rising vegetable oil prices mean for food businesses
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What can we do about drought?
As millions of people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya face hunger, what are the solutions?
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The food illustrators
Meet the artists tasked with creating pictures that look good enough to eat
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Fuelling a female footballer
As the Women's Euros reach a climax, how much could nutrition boost performance?
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Why use food for fuel?
As food prices rise around the world, why are we turning crops into fuel?
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In search of a food champion
As we search for a new global champion, we hear from two previous award winners
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The fungi kingdom
Why fungi are important for all terrestrial life
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Lemn Sissay: My life in five dishes
Writer Lemn Sissay reflects on his life through memories of food
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Menopause and diet
Which foods could help ease your symptoms?
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What's up with airline food?
The highs and lows of in-flight dining
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The recipe translators
We speak to the people who translate recipe books into different languages
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Shop like the Queen
What does the Queen eat? We find out how you get a royal warrant
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Feeding the imagination
Two novelists discuss how food fuels their creativity
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How a stoma changed my life
Living with a stoma bag, and learning what to eat, and when
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The problem with wheat
Are we too reliant on one crop for our nutritional needs?
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The hot sauce sensations
How Sriracha and Lao Gan Ma achieved global cult status
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The cost of 'getting ripped'
Three men discuss the reality of pursuing a six-pack and how much of it is about food
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How to date a carnivore
The highs and lows of being with someone who loves eating meat
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Tasting climate change
Wine producers say a warming planet can be detected in the glass
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Food poverty in a rich country
Three UK citizens discuss how difficult it can be to feed a family on a low income
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Food in the metaverse
What food could look like in virtual worlds and what it means for restaurants
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A Ukrainian kitchen in London
Two cookbook authors – one Russian, one Ukrainian – share memories of food and friendship
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An invisible crime
Why drink spiking is misunderstood and underreported and how it can change
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The recipe collectors
The challenge of preserving recipes and what is at stake if they are lost
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The online food fighters
The people taking on misinformation about food and nutrition on social media
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The constipation taboo
What we could learn about our health and happiness if constipation was normalised
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The sisters who can 'taste' words
The weird and wonderful world of synaesthesia - a puzzling neurological phenomenon
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Cancer, food and me
Three women discuss how chemotherapy has changed their relationship with food
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How not to feed a dog
What we feed our four-legged friends and what it reveals about our relationship with food