Episodes

• Carnivores

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  The history of meat: its what made us us. It grew our brains, shrank our guts. It made us hunters. It made us killers. It forged our families. And hamburgers allowed us to dream. Since then, we cant get enough of the stuff. Mans insatiable appetite may have eaten its way through prehistoric beasts, effectively modifying the food chain and consequentially, the landscape. As man continues through the centuries, he touches on iconic moments in time with culture, technology, innovation and pure inspiration that changes and defines his relationship with meat …for better or worse. From roasting woolly mammoth steaks over a bonfire to stalking Chateaubriand...

• Carnivores

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  This is the uncensored story of food. Everything from cheetos to fois gras, science experiments to pop culture is fair game

• Baked & Buzzed

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  Grains, and the discovery of how to grow and cook them, led to the establishment of agriculture, which ultimately allowed man to end his hunter/gatherer practices and settle into the stay-at-home family groups that formed the earliest civilization. Today, civilization takes grains for granted and in this hour, well explain why that might be a somewhat shortsighted approach! Bread, beer, pasta, pizza, noodles and rice make the world go round and every culture has some kind of variation on these culinary themes.

• Baked & Buzz

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  This is the uncensored story of food. Everything from cheetos to fois gras, science experiments to pop culture is fair game

• Hooked On Seafood

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  High protein, omega rich seafood saved our species from its first threat of extinction, drove the Viking hordes, funded the American Revolution, gave hope to the Allies during two World Wars, and increasingly fuels our brains and muscle today. Market fish like cod and tuna defined entire eras of history but unsustainable practices are forcing us to re-define our commercial goals in the ocean. Current demand necessitates a sea change in our attitudes toward seafood. Increasingly, we look "off the eaten path" investigating ways to catch, eat and prepare "what the sea gives us" instead of creating unsustainable demands for a single species. Newly...

• Hooked On Seafood

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  This is the uncensored story of food. Everything from cheetos to fois gras, science experiments to pop culture is fair game

• Food Revolutionaries

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  Christopher Columbus. Julia Child. Clarence Birdseye. These are some of the revolutionary men and women who have changed what and how we eat, remaking not just food history but human history. Some of these food revolutionaries are well known, others obscure. But one thing they have in common is that they have fundamentally shaped how we live today.

• Food Revolutionaries

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  This is the uncensored story of food. Everything from cheetos to fois gras, science experiments to pop culture is fair game

• Sugar Rushes

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  Throughout history, mankind has been on a mad-dash to satisfy our prodigious sweet tooth and consume vital energy. Along the way sugar helped build empires and even fueled the Industrial Revolution. With sugary sodas and processed desserts, man chases a bliss point in life.. From the time sugarcane was first refined in India thousands of years ago, to our newest high tech candy factories, weve been developing newer and better delivery systems for the taste we cant live without.

• Sugar Rushes

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  This is the uncensored story of food. Everything from cheetos to fois gras, science experiments to pop culture is fair game

• Guilty Pleasures

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  In the 20th century, what we eat changed so our great grandparents would hardly recognize it. Today we spend less of our time on food than ever before. How did this happen and what does it mean? Guilty Pleasures explores modern foods uneasy relationship between convenience and quality.

• Guilty Pleasures

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  This is the uncensored story of food. Everything from cheetos to fois gras, science experiments to pop culture is fair game