The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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Why can’t my child swallow?
Dysphagia: parents share their experiences of feeding a child with swallowing problems
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The ghost writers
The people who pen cookbooks for celebrity chefs.
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The opera singer's diet
What do the skilled performers eat to hit the high notes?
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Chefs who changed course
Chefs who left the heat of the professional kitchen, and what they do now.
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Cooking with love
Your stories about the sentimental items in your kitchens
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A Ukrainian table at Christmas
Ukrainians living in the UK talk about how they’ll mark the festive season
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Hard to swallow
Dysphagia: Navigating an invisible disorder
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Why does Africa import a lot of food?
We speak to food entrepreneurs about how Africa can be more self sufficient
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Eggonomics
Egg prices are rising – is avian flu to blame?
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Samuel Ikua: Global Youth Champion 2022
This year’s award winner and his mission to get people farming in the city
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Food as rehabilitation
Could changing the food behind bars improve prisoner outcomes?
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Island diets
What do you eat if you live on an island?
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The buffet business
How do you make money out of them, and what happens to all the leftovers?
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Forbidden food: The Jews of Spain
The suppression of Jewish cooking under the Spanish Inquisition, and its global spread
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What do astronauts eat?
Designing a diet to keep astronauts healthy
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Can farmers influence food prices?
How rising global prices impact food production around the world
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Inheriting grandma's pan
The significance of family cookware and what we lose if we throw our old pots out
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Who owns seeds?
How four big companies came to dominate the industry
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Food for mood
Can we eat our way to happiness?
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The flavourists
Meeting the people bridging art and science to make food taste delicious
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Inside food safety scares
The people trying to stop contaminated food reaching your plate
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Tomorrow’s food crops
A changing climate means farmers need to change the crops they grow
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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