The largely unsustainable way in which much of the world’s food is farmed and produced has inspired Italian activist and foodie Carlo Petrini, to lead a resistance movement.
Since it was established in the late 1980s, his anti-fast food project Slow Food, has spread across the globe preserving traditional recipes and techniques to help prevent the disappearance of unique food cultures. Slow Food Story follows the initiative's rise from the small town of Bra, near the northern Italian city of Turin, to an international revolution with roots in 150 different countries.
Has the proof of just how damaging sugar is been buried by big business?
Canadian investigative documentary The Sugar Conspiracy, goes behind the scenes of what they believe is the “systematic hijacking of scientific study to bury evidence that sugar is toxic”, and explores whether consumers have been purposefully kept in the dark about the dangers of excess sugar consumption in a similar way the harmful effects of smoking were long disguised by the tobacco industry.
Every day, 280 Australians develop Diabetes. It’s one of our greatest health dilemmas and the food we eat has a lot to do with it.
Dr Michael Mosley, who invented the five:two diet, sits down with Insight’s Jenny Brockie with a plan he believes will reverse the disease in many sufferers.
In the eye-opening series that came before For the Love of Meat, farmer and chef Matthew Evans dives deep into Australia’s seafood industry to discover everything you didn’t know about our favourite purchases from the fish market.
In three-part documentary What's The Catch, Evans investigates the truth about how the prawns, salmon, tuna and flake we eat arrive on our plates, and questions whether we really know what we’re eating.
Respect for food, farming and the local environment is behind every dish at Californian restaurant, Manresa. Biodynamic farmer Cynthia Sandberg teams up with Michelin star chef David Kinch in The Farmer and the Chef, to try and revolutionise modern American cooking in true paddock to plate style.
The one hour documentary takes you inside their worlds as they attempt to scale up their production ten-fold without diminishing quality.
What does it take to make perfect coffee? From bean to brew, these five baristas find themselves pushing the limits to achieve coffee-making glory. Once a year, thousands of baristas compete around the US, but only one will be the National Champion "Barista"! So what does it take?
This 90 minute documentary will take you on a humorous and emotional journey in search for the love of the perfect cup.
Take a look behind these three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who bring them to life. A world-renowned chef competes for the ultimate restaurant prize in Chicago, while privately battling a life-threatening condition. A 150-year-old restaurant in Iowa is still standing only because of an unbreakable bond with the community. And a fledgling Mexican restaurant in Tucson struggles as its owners risk everything to survive and provide for their young daughter.
Their unforgettable stories of family, legacy, passion and survival come together to reveal how meaningful food can be, and the power it has to connect us to one another.
