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Picky Eaters
Should you force feed a fussy child?
Fighting Food Crime
The risks of food fraud sourced via a complicated global supply chain
Coffee: Globalisation’s Drink of Choice
How the coffee industry is changing for growers, sellers, and consumers around the world.
Spice and Status
The global network of commerce that flavours our food
How Do We Know What’s Good For Us?
The mixed messages of the science of eating and why not all experts agree.
The End of Eating Wild Fish?
Most of our food is farmed. Should fish be, too?
Sexual Politics in the Kitchen
How does gender affect what we eat, cook and what food we buy and why does it matter?
How to (Not) Grow Your Food Business
Can a food company stay small and still survive?
Chicken: Too Much of a Good Thing?
The Food Chain returns to explore one of the world's most important foods: the chicken.
Food of Love
From a baby’s first cry to the funeral feast: food as the language of love.
Gut Feeling
The mechanics, the mysteries, and the medical potential of our gut.
India: Faith, Food, and Politics
Faith, food, and politics in the world's largest democracy.
India: How to Feed a Nation
Can the world’s largest democracy guarantee its citizens the right to their next meal?
Food of War
What does it take to eat on the front line?
Food Far From Â鶹ԼÅÄ
How to feed the biggest refugee crisis since World War Two
Food on Mars!
As the pressures on earth intensify, will growing food in space become our only option?
Back of House
Want to be a chef? Low entry level wages along with culinary college debt makes it hard
Chinatown
From Manila to Havana, we explore the story and legacy of Chinatowns around the world.
Breast Practice
The economics of breastfeeding and working mothers.
Down with 'Foodies'?
Hipsters, food fads, and the culinary class wars
The Truth About Diabetes
Unpicking the issues of a global disease that is spiralling out of control
Food, Power and Punishment
What part should food play in punishment?
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
The relationship between food and the workplace
Food Waste: How Low Can it Go?
Exploring a problem that is costing one in three of the world's calories.
Is Convenience Killing Us?
Processed, packaged, flavoured and often pre-cooked food is now a norm but at what cost?
Food and Nostalgia
The power food has to evoke memory and how memory impacts the food we eat
Front of House
The Food Chain looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer.
Food Chain Late Night
We explore the characters and cuisines that come out after dark.
Eating With Our Ears: The Sound of Food
How sound and music influence the way we taste food and drink.
Bottled Water: Do We Really Need It?
Is bottled water the ultimate marketing con, or a potential lifesaver?
Disaster Food: Feeding a Country in Crisis
The impact of natural disasters on a country's ability to feed itself.