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The Food Chain

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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: Cooking in extreme places

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Cooking in extreme places

02/11/2023 GMT

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The chefs serving meals up mountains, pizza under the sea and tapas in Antarctica

The chefs serving meals up mountains, pizza under the sea and tapas in Antarctica.

Wherever humans go, whatever we do, we need to eat. 

In this programme, we meet the people cooking at the extremes. 

We hear about the chefs serving up three-course meals on Africa’s highest peak; the elaborate puddings created on stormy seas with a cruise ship pastry chef; the art of cramming enough food to feed 100 hungry sailors on board a nuclear submarine with a US Navy submarine culinary specialist, and tapas nights in the Antarctic with the chef at Rothera research station. 

Presenter: Ruth Alexander 

Producers: Rumella Dasgupta and Izzy Greenfield 

(Image: Mount Lister in Antarctica, covered in snow and ice. Credit: Getty Images/BBC) 

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk

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