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Trans-fats
Sheila Dillon investigates the issue of trans-fats in our food.
Emergency Food
Sheila Dillon investigates how emergency foods are made for disasters, droughts and wars.
School Food
Sheila Dillon follows two schools as they attempt to transform the way their pupils eat.
Yeast
A global commodity, and now part of a food revival. Sheila Dillon on the wonders of yeast.
Mario Cassandro
Sheila Dillon looks at the life of Mario Cassandro, a man who re-invented the restaurant.
Scotland's Food Policy
With Sheila Dillon. A look at Scotland's first ever national food policy.
Food Icons: Major Patrick Rance
In a series on people who've changed the way we eat, The Food Programme profiles Pat Rance
Kitchen Designers
A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at the history of kitchen design.
Food Icons: George Perry-Smith
The story and legacy of the maverick, self taught, legendary chef George Perry-Smith.
Food Poverty
Simon Parkes reveals a Britain in which hunger and hard food choices are all too real.
The Honey Business
Sheila Dillon takes a look behind the scenes of the honey industry.
Food ads and children
Sheila Dillon explores the issue of advertising junk food to children.
Beer - Trouble Brewing?
As tax on low-alcohol beer is cut, Sheila Dillon asks how problem drinking can be tackled.
Los Angeles Street Food
Richard Johnson travels to Los Angeles, a city where many of the world's food trends begin
Pickling and Preserving
Sheila Dillon looks at some of the ingenious ways we have developed of preserving food.
The Calorie
Sheila Dillon asks if the calorie is an outdated way of controlling diet.
Palm Oil
A traditional cooking oil and a controversial food ingredient. What's up with palm oil?
Into the Wild
Feeding a restaurant trend, Sheila Dillon investigates the world of commercial foragers.
Future Food
Simon Parkes meets the people trying to come up with food ideas for the future.
A Special (Food) Relationship
Mark Bittman, chief food writer at the New York Times, meets three campaigning UK chefs.
Britain's best food producers
Sheila Dillon reports on the winners and finalists of the Â鶹Éç Food and Farming Awards 2011
Britain's best food markets
Sheila Dillon discusses this year's winners in the Best Market category of the Food Awards
The Price of Food
Dan Saladino exlores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat.
Gin and Botanicals
Dan Saladino explores the past, present and future of the most British of drinks, gin.
The Food Quiz
Tim Hayward presents a special food quiz edition recorded at the Abergavenny Food Festival
New Year's Food Quiz
Tim Hayward and the Food Quiz team juggle more food history, trivia and recipe knowledge.
Food Stories: What Happened Next?
Sheila Dillon reports on the major developments in the big food stories of 2011.
London 2012, Coke and McDonalds
Food and the Olympics. Guest presenter John Inverdale looks ahead to London 2012.
Generation Food
A profile of the people coming up with radical ideas for food in the UK.
The Trouble with Chocolate
Sheila Dillon explains why supplies of cocoa around the world are facing a tricky future.
Adventures in Vegetarian Cuisine
Can a new wave of vegetarian chefs and food writers change mainstream cuisine?