Alice Waters: My life in five dishes

Running a restaurant is hard. Long hours, tight margins and constant stress. In this week's programme Rumella Dasgupta travels to Edinburgh, Scotland, to meet Lisa He and her mum Sophie. Lisa has just put her life and acting career on hold, to try and help her mum save the family ...  Show more

Food tours are becoming one of the fastest-growing parts of the travel industry, with tourists increasingly choosing to explore cities and cultures through what they eat.In this episode, Ruth Alexander explores the global rise of guided food experiences and the people building bu ...  Show more

In the 1960s, Alice Waters studied abroad in France – and discovered a culinary world far from the processed food popular in America. When she returned to California, she tried to find restaurants to recreate her experiences abroad, but she couldn't. In 1971, she opened a small r ...  Show more

Dans cet épisode enregistré en public à la ferme urbaine Plantation, Lili Barbery-Coulon interroge Alice Waters, célèbre cheffe américaine, militante et créatrice de l’association The Edible Schoolyard. Fondatrice du restaurant californien Chez Panisse à Berkeley, Alice est conva ...  Show more

What is the current school meal model, how well is it working and how has the pandemic highlighted existing problems and created new ones?More importantly, given the very public problems that have cropped up in recent months, how can the system be improved and made more sustainab ...  Show more

On the anniversary of TV series 'The Naked Chef', Jamie Oliver talks to Sheila Dillon about two controversial decades dominating food on our TV screens and online, our home cooking, and dining out.In a two-part programme, Jamie describes being propelled into the limelight as 'The ...  Show more