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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.

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The Food Chain: Upper Crust?

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Upper Crust?

24/08/2017 GMT

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What the bread we eat can tell us about ourselves.

What does your choice of loaf say about you? Is your sourdough a source of pride? Have you ever felt ashamed of your sliced white? 

Flour, water, and salt - over thousands of years the basic recipe for bread has changed very little.  But often there's been a dollop of judgement thrown in too. 

From Plato to modern-day Cairo, in this episode we’re talking about the ever-changing relationship between bread and social class. How have certain types of loaf come to have different moral and social meanings? And, can bread divide a society? 

Presenter: Emily Thomas

(Photo: Loaf of bread. Credit: Getty Images)

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