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The Food Chain

Factual: Food & Drink

Examining what it takes to put food on your plate

The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

The Food Chain: Whose Food is it Anyway?

28/11/2014

Whose Food is it Anyway?

BBC World Service - The Food Chain, Whose Food is it Anyway?

What happens to a cuisine's national identity once it crosses international borders?

Is our food for sharing or guarding? Does it maintain a national identity once it is cooked abroad? And, the intellectual property law behind your family recipe.

Does food maintain its national identity once it's cooked abroad? We'll look at why a recipe by chef Jamie Oliver for Jollof rice has many West Africans talking about their culinary heritage. Also,can you patent a recipe? We look at the relationship between intellectual property and food, and whether our food is for sharing or protecting.  And how Parmigiano Reggiano may play a part in holding up EU- US trade talks.

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