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The Fridge Light
Join top food writer Chris Nuttall-Smith for an obsessive, fascinating journey through the hidden stories of the things we eat. Each episode chows down on one food phenomenon, revealing the unexpected cultural ingredients. Part science, part business, part psychology — always fresh and delicious.
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14 episodi
The Fridge Light Introduces: 10 Minutes to Save the Planet
Our brains aren’t wired to save the world. But if you’re ready to make changes that actually stick, 10 Minutes to Save the Planet will show you the wa...
Catch of the Day
How one of the strangest, and frankly blandest-tasting animals you’ll ever encounter, might just be exactly the fish the planet needs.
Blank Slate
Tofu: vegetarian superfood or toxin-ridden poison? (Spoiler alert: it's neither!)
Chew Chew
The sticky story of how gum conquered our planet — and why today it’s fighting just to survive.
Gutsy
Prebiotic. Probiotic. These labels are popping up on all sorts of food products, but do they actually help your intestines do their thing?
Snack Time
Can the Fridge Light team choose, once and for all, the greatest snack of all time? We find out at our first ever live show, recorded at the Hot Docs...
Billion Dollar Baby: the rise and fall of Orbitz
The untold inside story of Orbitz -- the weirdest drink of the 1990s, and maybe the single worst beverage launch of all time. Doomed to failure, or wa...
Green Gold
Lettuce: the invisible forces that turned rabbit food into the world’s first seasonless produce.
The Rest of the Pig
From bacon to guanciale, North Americans love their pork. But even with today’s nose-to-tail approach to eating, there is still plenty left over after...
One word: Yeasts
Yeast — yes, yeast — is revolutionizing the way we eat and drink, how we produce milk and meat, and even how we get high.
Dark Meat/White Meat
One is moist and rich, the other drier and mild. But by the 1990s, boneless, skinless chicken breast was the preferred choice for North Americans. In...
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Food journalist Chris Nuttall-Smith is on an obsessive, fascinating quest to uncover the hidden stories of what we eat and drink coming this September...