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BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme, One Armed Chef: The Food Adventures of Giles Duley.
How the photographer injured in a conflict reinvented himself through food and cooking. The story of how a photojournalist severely injured in a war zone reinvented himself through cooking. Giles Duley is now using food to transform conflict zones around … Continue reading
Learn Everything You Need to Know About Coffee Beans
In this video, we’ll be discussing everything you need to know about coffee beans. From what roast levels to choose, how to choose the right roast degree for your coffee, to where coffee beans are grown, we’ll have it all … Continue reading
Coffee and avocados? How Sicily is turning tropical amid climate change
Climate change is prompting fruit farmers to diversify and coffee roasters to start considering areas beyond the so-called bean belt to source their raw material. In Sicily, Morettino, a forward-looking family-run roastery, has already started growing coffee plants in Palermo, … Continue reading
Inside the Global Fight to Save Coffee
Humanity consumes a half-trillion cups of coffee every year, yet coffee production is one of the most antiquated industries within agriculture. Now the livelihoods of 125 million people working in coffee are at risk as the crop struggles to cope … Continue reading
Inside the secret world of Manchester’s Tokyo Ramen restaurant
Well well, apparently the best ramen (and one of the cheapest) is served at Tokyo Ramen in Manchester’s Northern Quarter… Let’s see! In this video I’m ordering the Tantan Ramen đ, along with the vegetable gyozađ„ and an Asahi beer … Continue reading
Food History: Ramen
The history of ramen features cameos from The Yakuza crime syndicate, the U.S. Army, and a businessman who turned a simple idea into a worldwide convenience food. Ramen is so much more than a cheap and filling meal. In this … Continue reading
The Secret History of Pasta
This fun, animated video follows the history of pasta from 5th century Sicily to the present day. Animation: Fly Machine Picture Co.
20 Years of Lies: The Mad Cow BSE Scandal | Plainly Difficult Documentary
Learn with Plainly Difficult! The Mad Cow Disease scandal was the British Governments attempt to cover up the link between beef and variant CreutzfeldtâJakob disease (vCJD) Which would result in thousands being exposed to the illness…… Thank you to my … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud
How âfingerprintingâ technology could help prevent another horse meat scam. Professor Chris Elliott is something of a âfood detectiveâ. A Professor of Food Safety and Microbiology at Queen’s University Belfast and a founding director of its Institute for Global Food … Continue reading
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