Fresh Food: What Is Farm-to-Table?
In this program the basics of sustainable farming and locally grown foods are explored through the eyes of three highly-trained chefs who have left big city jobs to grow fresh, healthy ingredients for their gourmet dishes. The video follows the chef...
Global Food Equity
From the complexities of availability and distribution to the most basic, glaring reasons why some people have more to eat than others, this program explores very difficult issues involving food and hunger around the world. It addresses several fact...
Food design
This film takes a look at the secret chambers of a major manufacturer of food, where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow. It shows how form, color, smell, consistency, the sounds made during eating, manufacturing...
Catering skills: behind the scenes
Exploring an array of culinary skills, this video enables viewers to create dishes for a fully catered meal. Grounding students in the elements of plate composition - color, texture, height, and balance - the program demonstrates entree and dessert ...
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants." With those seven words, journalist Michael Pollan distills a career's worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people's health by today's industrially-driven Western diet. ...
Junk Food Wars
Healthy eating is a challenge—sometimes, it’s even a battle. With vending machines, convenience stores, and fast food restaurants almost everywhere, nutritional value can go down in defeat. This high-energy video shows how to defend against the ...
Developments in the Food Industry: Science, Technology, and the Environment
Although genetic modification of plants and animals has been going on since the dawn of agriculture, technological changes of unprecedented scope have taken place in the food industry within the past few decades. This program explores the impact of ...
Our Daily Poison
According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of cancer has doubled over the last thirty years (after allowing for the population aging factor). Over this period, the increase in leukemia and brain tumors in children has been around 2% p...