The Food Programme
Episodes
Cooking in Schools
07 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon explores the past present and future of cooking and food preparation in the school curriculum. She learns how it was introduced in the 1...
Food in Ireland After the Crisis
31 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon investigates some of the food stories behind Ireland's economic collapse and asks what role food will play in deciding the Republic's fu...
Lyme Bay and Shellfish
24 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon investigates the appeal of shellfish - bivalves and molluscs - from the point of view of taste and sustainability and asks why we don't ...
Angela Hartnett's Best Producer Meal
17 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett prepares a hearty winter's meal for Sheila Dillon using ingredients from the Best Producer category of the 2010 ...
Gadgets
10 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon, with the help of some famous food lovers (including Giorgio Locatelli, Cyrus Todiwala, Fuchsia Dunlop and Bee Wilson) hears about their...
Food Writing 2010
03 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon traces the legacy of Elizabeth David's more scholarly work and reviews food writing in 2010 with blogger and critic Tim Hayward, photogr...
Alternative Christmas Cakes
20 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Panettone and chocolate logs - Sheila Dillon embraces two of the cakes replacing our "traditional" Christmas cakes on our Christmas tables, and ponder...
Lapland & the World's Greatest Chef
17 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The Danish chef Rene Redzepi of Noma, the "World's Best Restaurant", forages for food in Lapland and London.He's become one of the most influential ch...
Venison
13 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon explores the varieties of venison - wild and farmed - we can now find in butchers and supermarkets in the UK. She joins a stalker in Ber...
Street Food and Takeaways
06 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
From Caribbean to Thai and Vietnamese - Simon Parkes looks at the latest trends in British street food and takeaway meals. And we hear from some of th...
Best Drinks Producer, Food & Farming Awards
29 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A distiller, a brewer and a cider maker - but who will be the first winner of the Food and Farming Awards Best Drinks Producer Award? Oz Clarke joins ...
Pub Food
25 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon looks at new ideas for using food to save the British pub.With 40 pubs a week closing down and food sales starting to equal those of dri...
Cut Price Fruit
15 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few months Supermarket price wars have halved the cost of one of Britain's best loved fruits - the banana. Even though retailers say the...
Terra Madre
08 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon hears from some of the world's disappearing food tribes and finds out why efforts are underway to preserve indigenous food cultures in n...
Sustainable Public Food and Nottingham
01 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In these hard economic times does a Private Members Bill introducing new standards for the food sourced by public bodies stand a chance of becoming la...
Student Food
25 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
What food do students have access to, what do they eat? Sheila Dillon investigates the catering provided for students across the country in these fina...
The Sandwich
18 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon hears from the people attempting to revolutionise the sandwich. We're now seeing the rise of food businesses specialising in just one ty...
Northern Apples
11 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Scagglethorpe Queening, Ribston Pippin, the Wass - Simon Parkes meets those restoring the orcharding tradition of the north, from the walled community...
03/10/2010
04 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon looks at some of the latest developments in airline food. The supply chain is beginning to open up and innovative producers from the nor...
Pasta
27 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Dillon looks behind the scenes of the world's largest and smallest pasta factories. It's a difficult time as wheat prices are high and so compe...
Northern Ireland and "Focus on Food"
20 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Northern Ireland's new Focus on Food policy, published earlier this summer, aims to put food at the heart of economic growth, and encourage value adde...
Ice Cream
13 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Ice Cream : Everyone seems to like ice cream and with the market worth an incredible one billion pounds a year, it would seem to be recession-proof. T...
Mark Hix in Transylvania
07 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Chef Mark Hix travels to Transylvania to help revive a disappearing food culture. From cheese making shepherds to pickle producers, he meets the peopl...
The Doner Kebab
07 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Johnson is on a mission to revive the fortunes of the British kebab.A life long lover of the world famous street food he's convinced that a mo...