

Food is never just food.
2024 · 1 season · — · ★ 7.9
From Peruvian salt flats to Rwandan coffee forests, explore and celebrate the ingredients that built societies, shaped beliefs, and forever altered the tapestry of humanity.
Start from S1E1 · Chile
E12024 · 51m · ★ 7.0
Mild, medium, hot...inferno. From paprika to ghost pepper, discover how chile has firmly rooted itself into parts of our identity.
E22024 · 42m · ★ 7.0
Once undesirable but now a sought-after luxury, bluefin tuna has one of the food world's most tumultuous stories.
E32024 · 36m
The food we eat. The sweat on our skin. Salt shapes everything around us—its history is our history.
E42024 · 38m
There are over 1,500 varieties of bananas, and yet most of us have only tasted one. Why? And what do we lose when a single banana wins out?
E52024 · 45m
In western Spain lies a quaint village called La Alberca, where locals celebrate one animal unlike anywhere else in the world: the pig.
E62024 · 38m
For millennia, rice has fueled humanity. But as global demand skyrockets, the future of rice production grows more dire by the day.
E72024 · 36m
Follow a coffee bean from tree to cup to uncover the complicated history, extraordinary craft, and unique collaboration behind the brew.
E82024 · 42m
No longer just a plant, corn is a building block of modern society. But what does its domination mean for the future of food—and for us?

How Do They Do It?
2006·7.5