Mexican cooking and the food adventures of Diana Kennedy
30 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Saladino meets the world authority on the food of Mexico, the British born writer Diana Kennedy....
Sweeteners: The answer to our sugar cravings?
22 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon asks whether sweeteners could be the way for us to cut down sugar but to keep enjoying...
US Southern Cooking and Chef Sean Brock
15 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Johnson is in South Carolina to meet Charleston chef, Sean Brock, who is on a mission to rev...
Holy Food
08 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Hayward looks at the tradition of monastic food production, with stories from Sicily, New York a...
Knives
01 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon takes a look at that most coveted of kitchen tools; the knife.One of the most primal y...
Wild Booze
25 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and forager Andy Hamilton leads a journey hunting for plants to make incredible drinks, and l...
Fish Farming
19 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Fields of Fish - The huge rise in farmed fish and the people trying to make it sustainable. The worl...
Ken Hom 2 (of 2) - Politics, influence and the future
12 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this second of two special editions recorded at the Bristol Food Connections Festival, Sheila Dil...
Ken Hom 1 (of 2) - The Early Years
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Over 2 special programmes from the Food Connections festival in Bristol, Sheila Dillon talks to Ken ...
Behind the Scenes at BBC Food and Farming Awards 2014
04 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The first of two-part special on the prestigious BBC Food and Farming Awards - now in its 14th year ...
Plantains and pleasure; Jamaican food in the UK
27 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Hayward on the evolution of Jamaican food in the UK with chefs and cooks in Bristol.
A Tribute to Derek Cooper
22 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon pays tribute to the late Derek Cooper who started The Food Programme back in 1979 and ...
Food in Northern Ireland: A Golden Era?
13 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon meets Northern Ireland's chefs and producers leading a food renaissance.
Raw Milk
06 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
With a Food Standards Agency consultation underway, Sheila Dillon and guests discuss the controversi...
Wild Beer
30 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Saladino meets the brewers transforming the flavours and styles of the British craft beer scene....
Micro-Bakeries
23 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The rise and rise of the micro-bakery. How home baked bread became a business opportunity.
Hospital Food
16 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon investigates the government's latest plans to improve food in the NHS. The government ...
BBC Food & Farming Awards: Meet the Finalists
10 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A special edition introducing the producers, farmers and cooks who have made it through to the final...
A Renaissance for Butchers?
02 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon examines the state of the Butchery profession to find out how it has weathered the sto...
The Future of Fairtrade
23 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Hill reports on the future of Fairtrade as the label marks its 20th anniversary. Some are ar...
Really Wild Food
16 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon interviews the team behind the BBC's Natural History Unit to uncover the strangest col...
Claudia Roden: A Life Through Food
09 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In 1968 Claudia Roden published her first book, 'A Book of Middle Eastern Food', and with it introdu...
Britain and the Ready Meal
04 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ready meals divide Britain, some love them, others think they're a problem for our health and wellbe...
Greek Yogurt: a global love affair
26 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In the Great Taste Awards last year, a yogurt from a small British dairy beat over 10,000 competitor...
Food and the Future of Pubs
19 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon hears the latest on the role of food in the future of the British pub. From traditiona...
Three inspirational cooks
12 Jan 2014
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Sheila Dillon revisits the inspirational caterers from the very first BBC Food & Farming Awards....
The best of British food and farming.... the search begins
05 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon, chef Richard Corrigan and food writer and broadcaster Valentine Warner help launch th...
Fish & Chips
03 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon explores a renaissance in the great British fish and chip shop, with the help of food ...
100 years of Elizabeth David
29 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon and Tim Hayward discuss the legacy of Elizabeth David 100 years after her birth. The i...
Nutmeg: The Smell of Christmas?
22 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
For cook and author Nigel Slater, 'Nutmeg and citrus are the scents of Christmas' but Sheila Dillon ...
Bovril
08 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cambridge University historian Lesley Steinitz explains the pioneering story of Bovril. From its beg...
Alice Waters, a Delicious Revolution
01 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Californian chef and campaigner Alice Waters shares her story with Sheila Dillon; from early lif...
Cook Books
27 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Cookery Books of 2013.Ahead of the Christmas shopping season Sheila Dillon reviews this year's best ...
Why is Grimsby's smoked fish special?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Fenland celery has recently joined a select list of only fifty-five British foods to achieve the sam...
The Sugarman of Brazil
10 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Leontino Balbo - The Sugarman of Brazil. The incredible story of one maverick farmer who is trying t...
Horsemeat - a Food Programme update
05 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In January of this year the Food Standards Agency confirmed results showing horsemeat had been found...
Restaurant Reviews
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Restaurant reviews - who can we trust? Sheila Dillon investigates online review sites, newspaper rev...
Cider: Britain's Most Misunderstood Drink?
21 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Award winning drinks writer Pete Brown joins Sheila Dillon to explain why bottles of cider should be...
The Great British Hop
13 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Three decades ago Miles Warde worked on a hop farm in Herefordshire. Split shifts, tractors with lig...
Cook Slow, Cook Fast
07 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of cooks using slow and pressure cookers. Sales of slow cookers...
The School Food Plan
30 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The School Food Plan, written by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, aims to increase take-up of school...
A Quiet Food Revolution: The Story of Myrtle and Darina Allen
22 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Myrtle and Darina Allen, revolutionised food in Ireland with their cooking. From pioneering restaura...
Booze-free Bars
16 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Booze Free Bars - With an increasing number of us giving up alcohol, new bars are popping up across ...
The Future of Street Food
08 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Can street food change the world? Richard Johnson looks at ideas being tried around the world, from ...
DIY Food
02 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
DIY Foods - Tim Hayward meets the people taking ambitious food production into their own hands. Andy...
In Praise of Bacon
25 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
An Ode To The Bacon Butty. Hardeep Singh Kohli's personal plea to the nation to reflect on a food of...
Feeding the Detectives
18 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.
A World Stage for Food and Music
11 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Every year at the WOMAD festival, one tent in a field in Wiltshire becomes the venue for a remarkabl...
The Banana - fascinating history, uncertain future
05 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular fruit, the banana, is uncertain.Producer:...
Skint Foodies
28 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon meets the cooks specialising in great food on small budgets, part of a world of food b...
Rethinking Veganism
21 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The word 'vegan' has for the nearly seventy years of its existence - represented a diet and a way of...
Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange, Part 2
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of their exchange of food stories Magnus Nilsson invites Valentine Warner to venture int...
Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange
07 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In a two part special Valentine Warner and Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson swap food stories from their ...
Butter, a delicious story of decline and revival
30 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of producers making butter special again.
Food, game changers and career movers
23 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon looks at the award winners who are leaving high flying careers to follow their passion...
The chocolate world of Mott Green
16 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Mott Green, cocoa farmer and chocolate maker, who was changing the industry one bar at ...
Bereavement and Food
09 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In the throes of bereavement food can seem unimportant. People lose both their appetite and their se...
Michael Pollan: Why Cooking Matters
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon speaks to the writer Michael Pollan on the craft, science and pleasures of cooking. In...
Sugar: Pure, White and Deadly?
28 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon finds out why the debate about the role of sugar in our lives is hotting up. Recent bo...
Food, Cancer and Well-Being
19 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon asks if food and nutrition should have a bigger role in treating cancer. Is the medica...
A Life Through Wine: Jancis Robinson
16 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jancis Robinson remembers the specific bottle of wine which ignited her passion for both drinking wi...
Digital Dishes - life stories through recipes
05 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Inside one kitchen in Bristol, thirteen strangers from all over Europe gathered to share food and st...
Black Pudding v Boudin Noir
30 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Campion reports from Normandy in France as he helps judge the world black pudding championsh...
Food on the Road
21 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
There's an army of lorries at work right now, transporting food and other goods all over the country...
Chilli Britannia
18 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from growers to expert eaters and those who l...
Madhur Jaffrey, a life through food
08 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon meets Madhur Jaffrey, Indian cooking legend, who's just returned from the sub-continen...
Fasting, old and new
01 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon looks at the practice of fasting - then and now - from a religious and medical perspec...
Marmalade
25 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Each January, with the arrival of the seville oranges, hundreds of people across the UK ritually boi...
Our Changing Taste
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon looks at how our sense of taste develops throughout our lifetimes, and what happens wh...
Forest foods, Africa's secret ingredients
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon explores Africa's forest foods, both an emergency larder and source of wonderful flavo...
The Death of Three Square Meals?
25 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hectic lifestyles are increasing the demand for ready-made, 'grab n go' convenient foods. Today's ti...
Garlic, the wonder bulb
20 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's an ingredient that is key to many cuisines of the world, and has a prominent role in folklore a...
Food on a Pension
15 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon investigates the food lives of people surviving on the basic state pension. To fully u...
Horsemeat Scandal: A Food Programme Special
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon reports on fresh developments in the horsemeat scandal. As more tests reveal large amo...
Food in the life of Sir Paul McCartney
28 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon with an exclusive food interview with former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. More than thir...
Horsemeat and the Irish burger scandal
21 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland's horsemeat burger scandal makes the guarantees on traceability and product standards by som...
Traffic light labels
14 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Traffic light labelling - whether red lights will stop us eating bad foods. Sheila Dillon investigat...
From Our Own Food Correspondent
04 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon presents a special New Year, "From our Own Food Correspondent" with stories from China...
The cocktail, old and new
02 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Saladino explores the cocktail, a story which begins with 18th century Indian punch and keeps on...
Christmas Necessary Pleasures
23 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas Necessary Pleasures - Sheila Dillon hears from leading chefs and writers on their favourit...
Cheap Veg
17 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Cheap veg - the surprising stories behind humble British vegetables. Sheila Dillon enlists three exp...
09/12/2012
10 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon looks at the role food plays in different faiths and how increasingly churches, temple...
A Winning Meal - The BBC Food Awards menu
03 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A Winning Meal - the menu behind the Food and Farming Awards. Chef, Arthur Potts-Dawson tells the st...
Rethinking the hot dog
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Originally the street food of German immigrants to the United States, the hot dog was the original a...
2012's Best "Big Food Ideas"
25 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon meets finalists in the BBC Food & Farming Awards offering ideas for our food futur...
Street food heroes
13 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
From Moroccan food to traditional British puddings. Valentine Warner and Charles Campion taste their...
Lard
05 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Loving lard - Tim Hayward delves into the guilty pleasure of eating animal fat. Lard is so unfashion...
Football and Food
29 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
John Inverdale looks at innovations in the food offerings at football grounds that aim to give fans ...
The Future of the Oven
22 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Hayward glimpses the future of the domestic oven. After decades of remaining relatively unchange...
How to waste less food
15 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tristram Stuart reports on the latest ideas to tackle our growing mountains of food waste by thinkin...
British Blue Cheese
09 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
British blue cheese is aspiring to move from niche to mass market. Blue cheese has been made on the ...
Food and Farming Awards: The Finalists
01 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Cook and food writer Valentine Warner reveals this year's line up of finalists in the BBC Food &...
Food and the Cinema
23 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Parker Bowles looks at the cinema eating experience: from popcorn and nachos to three course mea...
Sourdough
16 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon finds out why sourdough bread is undergoing a major revival. It is the world's oldest ...
Australia's Food Revolution
10 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon finds out how Australia, a nation founded on the bulk export of cheese and meat, becam...
A Guide to Spice, Part 3: Mustard
07 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon explores a food story of decline and revival, British mustard.
A Guide to Spice, part 2: Vanilla
29 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know how vanilla beans are hand pollinated? Do you know why harvested vanilla pods are wrappe...
A Guide to Spice, part 1: Cloves
20 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon embarks on a journey through the world of spice, starting with the clove. She follows ...
The Science of Taste
13 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Can changing our dining utensils change the flavour of food? Simon Parkes investigates.
Camping Food
06 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
For most people, the idea of camping food is not an appetising one. You'll not find food-loving Tim ...