BBC Food is a division of theBBC which controls a recipe website part ofBBC Online, anonline streaming channel, and a former international commercial television channel focusing on food.

BBC Food is the public service website which publishes recipes from BBC programmes.

The BBC Food website has been running since the year 2000 and is part ofBBC Learning. Most of the site's recipes are featured on television programmes, but the site also commissions original recipes to accompany public service campaigns to teach and encourage the public to cook.

BBC Food publishes recipes that will be of use to the broadest possible audience, and refrains from publishing recipes that clearly require restaurant kitchen equipment or the skills of a professional chef.

BBC Food is not related to the monthly magazine and media brandBBC Good Food, which was acquired byImmediate Media Company in 2018.^[1]

BBC Food was also the name of theBBC's international commercial television channel focusing solely on food until it was replaced in the television markets in which it was broadcast byBBC Lifestyle. The channel was owned and operated byBBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm.

The channel launched in June 2002 and was available inSouthern Africa and parts ofScandinavia. While much of the programming was from the BBC, having been shown on other outlets elsewhere, other content from other providers was included in the scheduling.

Well known chefs who have appeared on the channel with their respective programmes have included:

• Antonio Carluccio
• Sophie Grigson
• Ainsley Harriott
• Ken Hom
• Madhur Jaffrey
• Nigella Lawson
• James Martin
• Jamie Oliver
• Gary Rhodes
• Delia Smith
• Rick Stein
• Antony Worrall Thompson

A similar service operated within the United Kingdom and Ireland calledGood Food, owned byDiscovery, Inc. It closed on 12 September 2019 after merging its programming withFood Network.

The BBC Food channel was phased out in Africa in September 2008, and in Scandinavia in December 2008. The channel was replaced by the newBBC Lifestyle.

A free streaming service under the name BBC Food was launched in the United States viaPluto TV in 2021.^[2]

• BBC Good Food

• BBC
• BBC New Media
• Food and drink television
• Television channels and networks about food and drink

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