Little Kitchen of Horrors
** The content in this week’s show requires a fairly strong stomach. So if you’ve got children with you, or you’re a bit squeamish yourself, best to look away now. **Listen if you dare to this episode...
13 Huhti 201727min
Orthorexia Nervosa: When 'Healthy' Food Becomes Harmful
When does a ‘healthy diet’ become unhealthy? This week the Food Chain looks at Orthorexia Nervosa - an unofficial term used to describe an eating disorder where people restrict their diet based on th...
6 Huhti 201726min
Hey, Hey We're The Food Chain
You can now listen to Food Chain starting on Thursdays, so to welcome new listeners, we’re offering up some of the best bits of our award-winning programme exploring the culture, science and economics...
30 Maalis 201727min
One Potato More
In our second and final episode on the humble spud, we meet the people who see the global economic future as being potato powered. The potato is the world's most produced staple food after rice, wheat...
25 Maalis 201726min
Poor Old Potato
In its time, the potato has been called the root of filth, misery and obesity - but is it fair to call it the 'food of the poor'? In the first episode of a two-part series, The Food Chain goes to th...
18 Maalis 201726min
The Food We Breathe
As part of the BBC wide #SoICanBreathe season, The Food Chain explores how the ways we grow and cook our food can affect how we breathe. From the indoor pollution generated by cooking, to how farming ...
11 Maalis 201726min
McAsia?
What can fast food tell us about the changing global economy? This week Karishma Vaswani, the BBC's Asia Business correspondent, takes a closer look at the history and the future of McDonald's in Asia...
3 Maalis 201726min
Post-Truth Food
Remember the great bacon shortage of 2012? No? What about the one earlier this year? Still no? Well maybe that’s because they didn’t happen.The Oxford English dictionary defines post-truth as: "relati...
25 Helmi 201726min
