03 May 2015

Food for thought

Telly Tales with Estelle Sinkins

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Jensen Ackles (left) is Dean Winchester and Jared Padalecki plays Sam Winchester in Supernatural on SABC3.

NEW to BBC Knowledge (DStv channel 184) on Wednesday, May 6 at 10 pm is Jimmy’s Food Price Hike, in which farmer Jimmy Doherty travels the globe to find out why the price of food is spiralling out of control.

Focusing on one meal in each episode, he uncovers why the staple ingredients we take for granted are increasing and why the era of cheap food may be over for good.

Doherty also finds out how extreme weather in America is affecting the cost of a loaf of bread, why China’s growing middle classes are making the ham sandwich more expensive and why, in the future, the price of oil might drive up the price of your cornflakes.

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