UK Food was launched on 5th November 2001. Along with the rest of the network, the "UK" prefix was changed to "UKTV" on 8th March 2004 and is thus now known as UKTV Food
The channel is available on Satellite (BSkyB) and Cable platforms. A partial service is available on digital terrestrial television through the Top Up TV pay-tv service.
This channel shows cookery programmes that are a combination of internally produced shows and repeats of shows from the BBC archive. Many of these shows were, before UK Food's launch, shown on UK Style
The channel shows several BBC reruns, but also has shows such as Good Food Live which are unique to the UKTV network
