The Food Chain

BBC World Service

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

Episodes (529)

Thu Feb 12th How to write a recipe
Thu Feb 5th Can you learn to love the foods you hate?
Jan 29th Fermented foods: A beginner's guide

The Food Chain

Feb 12, 2026
27 minutes
12 MB

We all have recipes we turn to again and again, perhaps from the stained pages of our favourite cookbooks, or handed down through families. But have you ever wondered about the work that’s gone into writing that set of instructions? In this edition of The Food Chain, Ruth Alexander looks at the art and science of recipe writing. How does a cook turn what is often an instinctive and creative process into a list of instructions anyone can follow? How much detail is too much, and what are the essential elements no recipe is complete without? Ru...

The Food Chain

How to write a recipe

BBC World Service

00:00 -26:41