Bottled Water: Do We Really Need It?
It has been described as the ultimate marketing trick, but the allure of bottled water is something more and more people are swallowing. With global sales set to overtake those of soda, The Food Chain...
30 Apr 201626min
Animals on Antibiotics: Could Pigs on Pills Make us Ill?
The animals we eat consume more than 60% of the world’s antibiotics - but not always because they are sick. This week, the Food Chain explores the controversy over the use of antibiotics in agricultur...
16 Apr 201626min
Food Chain Late Night
As part of the BBC’s Identity season we meet the people who feed us after hours, following the characters and cuisines that only come out after dark. Starting with the heady rush of a London kebab sho...
9 Apr 201626min
Front of House
What’s life like for a career waiter at the top of their game? The Food Chain looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer. The food service industry is facing a cycle of di...
2 Apr 201626min
Food and Nostalgia
Manuela Saragosa explores the power food has to evoke memory and how memory impacts the food we eat. Jamie Oliver’s mentor – Italian chef Gennaro Contaldo – cooks up a batch of his most nostalgic dish...
26 Mar 201626min
Is Convenience Killing Us?
Food that has been processed, packaged, flavoured and often pre-cooked for us has increasingly become a normal part of everyday life around the globe. But what is the rise and rise of convenience food...
19 Mar 201626min
Food Waste: How Low Can it Go?
This week, the Food Chain delves deep into food waste: a global problem of epic proportions that is costing one in every three of the world's calories. In January 2016, France became the very first co...
12 Mar 201626min
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
From power lunches to 'desktop dining', we unpick the relationship between food and the workplace. We trace how industrialisation played its part in forging the origins of the modern lunch break and h...
5 Mar 201626min
