Food Matters Live Podcast
Welcome to the Food Matters Live podcast – where we showcase the innovations, the big ideas, and the visionaries in the food industry.
We dig deep, we look to the future and the past, and we question everything we think we know about food.
Hit subscribe to make sure you never miss an episode.
And find out how you can join the conversation on our website foodmatterslive.com.
We dig deep, we look to the future and the past, and we question everything we think we know about food.
Hit subscribe to make sure you never miss an episode.
And find out how you can join the conversation on our website foodmatterslive.com.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 511
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
276: Will new HFSS rules change our eating habits?
The UK Government is planning to introduce a raft of restrictions on the promotion of foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) - but will they actually make any difference?
The idea behin…
00:41:37 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
275: Career Conversations: Meeting cookbook writer Dominique Woolf
Practice, practice, practice. It's good advice whatever food career you're hoping to embark on, and according to Dominique Woolf it is particularly good advice if you want to get into writing cookery…
00:19:28 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
274: How can the UK food sector solve its labour shortage?
What can be done to solve the growing problem of labour shortages in the UK food sector?
The Government's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee says chronic shortages could lead to further…
00:37:54 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
271: What's next in the evolution of plant-based dairy?
There's no doubt that plant-based dairy alternatives are booming. In 2021, a Bloomberg Intelligence report estimated that the global market for dairy-alternative milk could grow to more than $60bn by…
00:19:01 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
273: Career Conversations: 'Why I'm glad I fought for a career in food'
Liz Littlewood says she struggled at first to convince her parents and her teachers that a career in food was a good choice: "I had to fight quite hard to continue doing it at school and then univers…
00:18:14 |
Tue 31 May 2022
272: The foods born out of British Royal celebrations - and those that never took off
2022 marks 70 years since Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne, making Her Majesty the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.
Royal celebrations have often been associated wit…
00:36:33 |
Mon 30 May 2022
270: George Monbiot: 'Protein production must move from farm to factory'
“Monbiot has that most aggravating of gifts, the ability lucidly to point out things that people desperately do not want to be true."
That's a quote from Henry Dimbleby, the man who proposed the U…
00:50:08 |
Fri 27 May 2022
269: The war in Ukraine - what next for the global food system?
The images of suffering in Ukraine as Russia's invasion continues are some of the most horrifying seen in Europe for decades.
The war has already led to the deaths of thousands, caused to the dest…
00:35:26 |
Thu 26 May 2022
268: Career Conversations: The musical prodigy who became Quorn's Executive Chef
00:19:32 |
Wed 25 May 2022
267: The history of english wine - and its sparkling future
The history of English wine has been a bumpy one, and it starts much further back than many people would believe.
There is evidence that the Romans grew grapes for wine in English soil some 2,000 …
00:35:56 |
Tue 24 May 2022
265: The intoxicating history of whisky - with the man behind World Whisky Day
Blair Bowman thinks there is something magic about whisky, and when you look into its history, it's hard to argue with him.
"A single cask, single malt whisky, is totally unique," he tells Stefan…
01:07:37 |
Thu 19 May 2022
266: Career Conversations: How to get ahead as a food technologist
"I really love to see a client that's satisfied," says Tessa Anderson. "That they're in a much better position than when I first met them."
Tessa is a qualified food technologist and is Managing D…
00:19:59 |
Wed 18 May 2022
264: Foodvalley: 'The global food system has to change'
For years, the Netherlands has had a particularly important role to play in the global food system - but how is that role changing as sustainability becomes an ever more pressing issue?
The Dutch …
00:38:48 |
Tue 17 May 2022
263: How Israel became a world leader in food tech innovation
Whenever there's a conversation taking place about the cutting edge of the food industry, the name of one country keeps cropping up - Israel.
Whether it's discussing plant-based innovations, start…
00:44:43 |
Thu 12 May 2022
262: Career Conversations: Creating content for Tony's Chocolonely
"I feel privileged to be occupying a role... where you get to be emersed in all the brand love," says Micah Douglas, Content and Community Manager at Tony's Chocolonely.
Micah has only be in the r…
00:19:54 |
Wed 11 May 2022
261: Post-pandemic - how shifting relationships are influencing consumer trends
After two years of a pandemic, and the massive behaviour change it forced on all of us, how do companies in the food industry look to the future and identify opportunities for positive innovation?
…00:42:31 |
Tue 10 May 2022
260: Food poverty - the teenagers fighting to be heard
The right to food is recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but in 2019 in the UK 5m people were living in food poverty.
Many of those affected are children, and in this episode …
00:40:07 |
Thu 05 May 2022
259: The baker turning young people's lives around
"It's not for the feint-heart," he tells Elisa Roche in this episode of the Career Conversations podcast series…
00:18:59 |
Wed 04 May 2022
258: Gunhild Stordalen: 'The food system is killing us, but we can fix it'
There are fewer challenges bigger than trying to transform the global food system to make people and the planet healthier, but for Dr Gunhild Stordalen it's a challenge worth taking on.
In this ep…
00:38:12 |
Tue 03 May 2022
257: Career Conversations: Shaping the next generation of sustainable chefs
When Ben Christopherson was travelling, shortly after going to catering college, he knew he wanted to work in pastry - but nobody would let him have a go.
"On the continent they just would not let…
00:20:18 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
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