We’re celebrating ten years of The Food Chain with some of our favourite programme moments from the past decade. Fishing to stay alive, chopping onions in remembrance, and tasting people’s names – these stories and more tell us something about our relationship with food and how it helps us connect with one another. If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Ruth Alexander (Picture: A chocolate birthday cake with number 10 candles on top. Credit: Getty Images/BBC)
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Hello and welcome to the Food Chain from the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander.
This week.
This week we're celebrating the program's 10th anniversary with a pic of some of our favourite moments from the past decade.
Fishing to stay alive, chopping onions in remembrance, and what's so funny about Bolognese?
Just a few of the stories you'll hear in this eclectic mix.
Each tells us something about our relationship with food and how it helps us connect with one another.
And just to say we will be talking about the sensitive topic of bereavement, let's start with the basics.
When food is life or death In Survival Stories, Fish Bacon for breakfast, broadcast in 2016, presenter Emily Thomas spoke to Steve Callahan from the United States.
I'm probably best known for being dumb enough to lose my boat in the middle of the Atlantic and spending the next two and a half months drifting about 2,000 miles and learning to live like an aquatic caveman.
It happened in 1982, when he was 29.
In the aftermath of divorce and business problems, Steve had decided to follow a dream to build a boat to cross the North Atlantic Ocean.
He did it on his return journey, however, eight days from the Canary Islands.
As he headed towards the Caribbean, something struck the boat and it began to sink.
Steve inflated a life raft and grabbed whatever he could from the cabin, knowing it would likely be weeks before anyone found him.
I had a can of peanut, can of beans, I think it was a half a cabbage and basically not much else.