Staple tells the secret histories of the foods and drinks we eat every day. Each episode, host Nirob takes one ordinary thing — the potato, sugar, coffee, chocolate, salt, the sandwich, vanilla, the banana, rice, maize, bread — and follows it from its wild origin to the plate: the people who first grew it, the trade routes and wars it set in motion, the science that unlocked it, and the way it quietly reshaped who we are.

From a New World tuber that fed a continent and, when it failed, starved another, to a spice that sent ships around the globe, from an orchid that kept its secret for centuries to a fruit that toppled governments, Staple is about the astonishing journeys hidden inside the most ordinary things we eat and drink. Meticulously researched, honest about what is documented and what is legend, and told for the whole family. Clean and suitable for all ages. A new food every week