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The taste test
How much power does the consumer really have?
What's in a national dish?
The stories behind some of the most famous national foods.
Bonnie Garmus: My life in five dishes
The author of Lessons in Chemistry on what inspired the food in her novel
Can you eat your way to 100?
What a centenarian’s diet looks like
How to feed a city
Fast growing cities will put increasing pressure on food security.
The rise of private chefs
Are you always guaranteed the luxury experience you’re paying for?
Why is food so expensive in Ghana?
How rising prices are impacting people's lives.
Cooking in extreme places
The chefs serving meals up mountains, pizza under the sea and tapas in Antarctica
How to read a menu
Restaurants use language, psychology and behavioural economics to influence your choice
Eco scores on food labels
The EU wants to introduce a sustainability score on packaging
Food for new mums
Which foods does your body need after giving birth?
Pesticide exports
Should the global rules governing pesticide sales be tougher?
How to stop cooking killing
Millions die each year because of their stoves, so what's being done about it?
Feed your brain
Why is it important to ‘feed’ your brain?
Festive food stories
Which celebration dish is your favourite?
Another year away from home
Two families displaced by the war in Ukraine reflect on their second year away from home
The preservers
Meet the people preserving food to make it last longer
How to invent an apple
The fascinating history and future of the apples you buy in the supermarket
Is Chinese food the best in the world?
What centuries of Chinese cuisine can teach us today
Rebuilding Turkey’s food culture
We report on the impact of the 2023 earthquakes on food businesses in Antakya, Turkey
Detroit's urban farmers
Meet the people growing food on vacant land in this US city
Table talk
Why what you talk about over dinner matters
Is this ultra processed?
What is ultra processed food, and how can you spot it?
The school cooks
Three lunch chefs take us behind the scenes of canteen culture
The fifth taste
How to cook with umami and MSG
Why we love dumplings
You say ‘kenkey’, I say ‘dim sum’. Where did dumplings really come from?
Fasting and feasting
Is fasting for faith good for the mind and body?
The real Willy Wonkas
What’s it really like to work in a chocolate factory?
How to run a restaurant
With restaurants up against it, what is the winning formula for running one?
Food double-acts: TV chefs
The chefs who have found brilliant on-screen chemistry with a friend
Hungry at sea
Why some seafarers on board cargo ships don’t have enough to eat