The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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Madhur Jaffrey: My Life in Five Dishes
The most unforgettable meals from an extraordinary life.
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A Fly Future?
Could maggots hold the key to satisfying the planet鈥檚 growing demand for meat?
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The Maggot Masters
Could these squirming little creatures solve a global food problem?
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Cow Candy
Let them eat cake? Why farmers feed their cows sweets.
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Finding a Food Champion
Meet the people changing what and how we eat.
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The Art of Fermentation
We travel to Tennessee to meet Sandor Katz, a man fascinated by fermentation.
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Upper Crust?
What the bread we eat can tell us about ourselves.
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Is Social Media Putting You Off Your Lunch?
Is social media kindling or killing our relationship with food?
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Stockpiles? What Stockpiles?
Is your government stockpiling enough food?
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What Will You Eat if the Apocalypse Comes?
Meet the people stockpiling food for any eventuality.
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Have We Cracked the Nut Problem?
Drugs to treat peanut allergy are close to getting approval. But why now?
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Health lessons with the Hadza
Could East African hunter-gatherers lead us to the ideal human diet?
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Hunting with the Hadza
Eat with one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer communities
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Fortification: Too Much of a Good thing?
Who is putting micro-nutrients in your food - and who really benefits?
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The Unlikely Power of Cookbooks
How cookbooks have been used to demonstrate power, ideology and divide society
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Food Secrets of Centenarians
To what extent can your diet help you live longer?
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What Time is Dinner?
How social class has determined when we eat.
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Much Ado About Michelin
The allure and mystique of the Michelin star
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Talking Rot
When does old food become bad food?
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Hands Off My Food!
When is it OK to profit from the cuisine of a culture you were not born into?
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The Real Value of a Cup of Tea
Do you pay enough for your cup of tea?
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Foodunnit?
How does food help solve crime?
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I Don't Cook
This is definitely not a cookery programme
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The Fish Japan Ate
The wild bluefin tuna is being eaten to extinction. Can Japan afford to keep serving it?
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Liberte, Egalite, Gastronomie?
What does French food tell us about the country's future?
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Little Kitchen of Horrors
The scary, frightening, and spooky stories that we like to tell about what we eat.
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Orthorexia Nervosa: When 'Healthy' Food Becomes Harmful
When the pursuit of quality food destroys quality of life.
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Hey, Hey We're The Food Chain
The best pick of our award-winning programme which explores everything you eat.
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One Potato More
Is the humble spud the solution to the global food supply?
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Poor Old Potato
Is the potato the 'food of the poor'?
