Are you wanting to learn more about food ? Well you’ve come to the right place. This is a curated list of the best food podcasts of 2021.
We have selected these podcasts for a variety of reasons, but they are all well worth a listen. We tried to select a variety of podcasts across the spectrum from hosts with a wide breadth of experience.
We are always keen to hear your feedback, if we have missed a podcast, tweet us @MagazineWelp and we will check it out!
Best Food Podcasts 2021
With thanks to ListenNotes, Crunchbase, SemRush and Ahrefs for providing the data to create and rank these podcasts.
The Splendid Table
- Publisher: American Public Media
- Total Episodes: 376
The Splendid Table has always connected people through the common language of food and eating. Now with award-winning food journalist Francis Lam at the helm, we’re bringing forward even more fresh voices and surprising conversations at the intersection of food, people and culture – covering everything from the global appeal of sesame to the impact of Instagram on everyday eating. It’s a food show where everyone is welcome. Produced by American Public Media.
The Doctor’s Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
- Publisher: Dr. Mark Hyman
- Total Episodes: 368
We are seeing an ever-increasing burden of chronic disease, primarily driven by our food and food system. This is perpetuated by agricultural, food and health care policies that don’t support health. We need to rethink disease and reimagine a food system and a health care system the protects health, unburdens the economy from the weight of obesity and chronic disease, protects the environment, helps reverse climate change and creates a nation of healthy children and citizens. This podcast is a place for deep conversations about the critical issues of our time in the space of health, wellness, food and politics. New episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. I hope you’ll join me. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Food Chain
- Publisher: BBC World Service
- Total Episodes: 296
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
Same Brain
- Publisher: iJustine and Jenna
- Total Episodes: 41
iJustine and Jenna — Two sisters. Same Brain. Talking about tech, video games, food and probably more food. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/samebrain/support
The Food Programme
- Publisher: BBC Radio 4
- Total Episodes: 538
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
The Pulte Podcast
- Publisher: Bill Pulte | Giving Money and Knowledge
- Total Episodes: 12
I’m giving away money, rent, food, and knowledge to people in need. I’ve built and sold 8 figure companies and now I want to help people.
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
- Publisher: Milk Street Radio
- Total Episodes: 244
Milk Street Radio travels the world to discover how food and cooking are changing lives and cultures, from $13,500 melons in Japan and computer-generated cookie recipes to the home cooking of Ina Garten and Egyptian fast food in Berlin.
Healthier Together
- Publisher: Liz Moody
- Total Episodes: 73
Liz Moody: Sharing Stories About Wellness, Food, Relationships, Beauty, and Life
Gastropod
- Publisher: Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
- Total Episodes: 147
Food with a side of science and history. Every other week, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode exploring the hidden history and surprising science behind a different food- or farming-related topic, from aquaculture to ancient feasts, from cutlery to chile peppers, and from microbes to Malbec. We interview experts, visit labs, fields, and archaeological digs, and generally have lots of fun while discovering new ways to think about and understand the world through food. Find us online at gastropod.com, follow us on Twitter @gastropodcast, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/gastropodcast.
Food for Thought: How to Live Compassionately and Healthfully
- Publisher: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
- Total Episodes: 331
Food for Thought is THE resource for living compassionately and healthfully. Listen to insightful, common sense perspectives about food, animals, cooking, eating, health, language, politics, zero waste living, literature, film, advocacy, and so much more from the Joyful Vegan herself, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.
Naturally Nourished
- Publisher: Ali Miller RD
- Total Episodes: 243
Welcome to the Naturally Nourished podcast – your resource for cutting-edge food-as-medicine information! Functional Medicine applied with use of Keto Diet, High Fat Low Carb, Real Food solutions!
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)
- Publisher: Food Tank
- Total Episodes: 270
Food Tank’s Danielle Nierenberg chats with the most important folks in the food industry about the most important food news twice a week.
Hungry Girl: Chew the Right Thing!
- Publisher: Lisa Lillien
- Total Episodes: 148
Lisa Lillien, a.k.a. Hungry Girl, is obsessed with food––how wonderful it is, and how much of it she can eat and still fit into her pants! Through bestselling cookbooks, a daily email with 1 million+ subscribers, a magazine, and more, her Hungry Girl empire delivers healthy recipes that are easy & delicious, tips & tricks, smart food finds, and real-world survival strategies. And now she’s reaching fellow food lovers like never before! Each food-themed episode is packed with personal stories, taste tests of better-for-you finds, foodie pop culture & news, Q&A with fans, fun food facts, and special surprises.
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
- Publisher: Ed Levine
- Total Episodes: 235
Serious Eats’ podcast Special Sauce enables food lovers everywhere to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation about food and life between host and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine and his well-known/famous friends and acquaintances both in and out of the food culture.
Citizen Chef with Tom Colicchio
- Publisher: iHeartRadio
- Total Episodes: 19
Tom Colicchio has issues with food! Citizen Chef is about what we eat, where and who it comes from, and the politics, decisions, policies and people that shape our food system – with the goal of turning curious listeners into more informed, engaged citizens. Restaurateur, activist and Top Chef head judge Tom Colicchio dives into food and policy issues with lawmakers, journalists and food producers by connecting the dots of how our food system really works – and really doesn’t – all while remaining positive and presenting attainable solutions to some of the biggest food issues out there.
Green Eggs and Dan
- Publisher: The Podglomerate / Dan Ahdoot
- Total Episodes: 47
Taking a new look at “you are what you eat,” comedian Dan Ahdoot brings listeners in on conversations about food, life, and more, with some of his most entertaining friends. Not your typical, holier-than-thou food show, Green Eggs and Dan is the type of food podcast you’d make with your friends around the table, roasting more than just the food.
Boomer in the Morning
- Publisher: Sportsnet
- Total Episodes: 1764
Dean “Boomer” Molberg, Rhett Warrener & Ryan Pinder host what’s technically a sports show – food/bad music/comedy/food/movies/food barely ever come up to derail the show completely. Big guests, breaking news and hard-hitting locker room insight.
Podcast | ice age farmer
- Publisher: Ice Age Farmer, iceagefarmer.com
- Total Episodes: 342
food, abundance, warmth
Emotions & Eating with Nicola Beer
- Publisher: Nicola Beer
- Total Episodes: 76
Welcome to Emotions and Eating with Nicola Beer. Nicola controlled her feelings using food for 25 years. So she knows how draining it is to be constantly thinking about or acting out with food. Thankfully having made an amazing breakthrough in her recovery, her mission became about helping others escape the unsatisfying cycle of frustration and self-medication with food and destructive food behaviours. Nicola is determined to help find your inner strength, so you can be healthy, gain confidence, feel great and be at peace with yourself and food….—–FOR MORE EATING SUPPORT GET THE—- FREE — 5 Part Audio — Learn the 3 Secrets to Stopping the Unsatisfying Cycle of Frustration & Self-Medication with Food and Destructive Food Behaviours— https://www.nicolabeer.com/emotionaleating —–Book Your FREE 30 Minute — Peaceful Eating Session— with Nicola Beer— using this link and Begin Your Journey to Greater Freedom and Peace With Food and Your Body Todayhttps://www.nicolabeer.com/eatingsupport ——To contact Nicola Beer visit www.nicolabeer.com or email her on nicola@purepeacecoaching.com
Year of Plenty Podcast
- Publisher: Poldi Wieland
- Total Episodes: 61
We are more disconnected from our food and drink than ever before! Generational cooking skills and food traditions are slowly withering away, and many of us have no idea where our food is actually coming from. That is why we need to start a conversation around real, honest food again. The mission of this show is to help you build appreciation and knowledge around honest food and drink, as well as the processes that bring it to our tables. Join us as we explore various food-related topics on cooking, food traditions, nutrition, hunting, fishing, foraging, gardening, farming and much more!