Contain Yourself!
The Food Chain, BBC World Service
Sun 5 Nov 2017
Does your favourite drink taste better from a bottle, cup or can? Are foods enhanced by particular plates or packaging? Or is it all in your head?
Emily Thomas is joined by materials specialist Ellie Doney and food psychologist Charles Spence to find out exactly how the containers we eat and drink from can change the way food tastes.
From British fish and chips wrapped in yesterday’s news to clay teacups in Kolkata and a pot unwashed for decades, we explore some traditional serving methods and find out why we may be discarding more than we think when we throw them away.
