The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
James Winter’s history food lesson
We learn about São Paulo’s local ingredients, visit a Norwegian kitchen in Tokyo and author James Winter describes the histories of our favourite dishes.
Kansas City’s barbecue sauce bonanza
We visit a beer festival on the West Bank, a barbecue sauce bonanza in Kansas City and Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson discusses his cuisine.
Stubborn coffee
Chef and author Peter Gordon discusses his style of cooking and we visit a Berlin café refusing to serve coffee with sugar or soy milk.
Portugal’s designer pastries
How Portugal’s design and pastries share common qualities, we sample Austria’s fuity drink Sturm and enjoy a meal where scent matters as much as taste.
Iceland in London
A visit to the restaurant causing a buzz in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, we discover Icelandic burgers in London and check out Tel Aviv’s coffee culture.
Rediscovering offal
We discuss Japanese bento box meals, Latin-American cuisine in Europe and we also head to Berlin to find out how local restaurants are rediscovering offal.
How to run a successful restaurant
Chat with Paris-based British chef Rachel Khoo, we investigate sustainable eating in Berlin and Peru and find out how to run a successful restaurant.
Spanish cuisine with José Pizarro
Top Spanish chef José Pizarro discusses the nation’s cuisine, we hear about local coffee in Jerusalem and meet winemakers from California’s Livermore Valley.
A hummus history
We visit a Chicago restaurant that doubles as a farm, get the latest on Russian coffee trends and try to find out who invented hummus.
Going through coffee academy
We visit the Coffee Academy in Berlin, hear from the architects that redesigned Copenhagen’s Noma restaurant and take another dip into Santiago’s basket.
