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The Food Chain

All Episodes 1996

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  • 1996-09-05T19:30:00Z
  • 42m
  • 4h 12m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Jancis Robinson continues her series exploring the relationship between ourselves and what we eat. Spoilt for Choice? This programme investigates how the supermarkets balance the running of lucrative businesses with providingthe nation with good quality, healthy food. Do shoppers take enough responsibility for what they eat - or have they relinquished it to the food retailers?

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1996-09-05T19:30:00Z

1x01 Bramley apples and sea salt

Series Premiere

1x01 Bramley apples and sea salt

  • 1996-09-05T19:30:00Z42m

This episode follows two british staples, sea salt and bramley apples. From a kent orchard and a salt works in maldon, essex, the two ingredients go cross country before ending up on our plates.

1996-09-12T19:30:00Z

1x02 Tomatoes and sardines

1x02 Tomatoes and sardines

  • 1996-09-12T19:30:00Z42m

The high-speed journey of isle of wight tomatoes and cornish sardines, from producer to plate, leads to the google office's lunchtime menu, and a mouth-watering feast for the gb rowers squad.

1996-09-19T19:30:00Z

1x03 Eggs and raspberries

1x03 Eggs and raspberries

  • 1996-09-19T19:30:00Z42m

Free range eggs from somerset and raspberries from perthshire are tracked from farm to final use, including a jar of jam bound for the royal household and a stunning tower of macaroons.

1996-09-26T19:30:00Z

1x04 Lamb and peas

1x04 Lamb and peas

  • 1996-09-26T19:30:00Z42m

Lamb and frozen peas are followed from farm to plate, from school dinners to a special meal at a top newcastle restaurant.

1996-10-03T19:30:00Z

1x05 Potatoes and truffles

1x05 Potatoes and truffles

  • 1996-10-03T19:30:00Z42m

This episode follows the journey of suffolk maris piper spuds and much-prized wiltshire truffles, to a chip shop in barry island and a select list of elite clients.

1x06 Barley and shitake mushrooms

  • 1996-10-10T19:30:00Z42m

Barley from berwickshire is used to make crackers, cereal and nutritional drinks and to feed a hungry lifeboat crew, while, in lancashire, farmer john's shitake mushroom business is booming.

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