Eat This Podcast -- Persephone's Secret
Hello Many people take the myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone to be just a metaphor for the annual cycle of planting and harvesting. But maybe there...
Eat This Newsletter 183: Authentically awful
Hello I had a very enjoyable time during the Oxford Food Symposium’s Kitchen Table talk on how can we find reliable sources of information about food. I’d...
Eat This Newsletter 182: Hot news, cold comfort
Hello A quck reminder of the Oxford Food Symposium’s Kitchen Table on Wednesday of this week. Join Elizabeth Yorke, Anusha Murthy, Ken Albala and me for an...
Eat This Podcast -- Peanuts, Senegal and Slavery
Hello Senegal, on the western edge of Africa, was an ideal base for the transatlantic slave trade, although the European powers that established themselves...
Eat This Newsletter 181: True, that
Hello There is a kind of thread tying most of today’s newsletter items together. More on that in the final piece. Wheat worries A lot of people have talked a...
Eat This Podcast -- Garum: Rome's new library and museum of food
Hello You cannot avoid the past in Rome, but if you're interested in the history of food there's been nothing to see since the pasta museum shut its doors. A...
Eat This Newsletter 180: Novel food debate
Hello No apologies for devoting a lot of space to protein in one form or another. It is an important topic that we need to understand better. Insect meal and...
Eat This Podcast -- Tomatoes: domestication and diversity
Hello The discovery of truly wild tomatoes in Mexico recently allowed researchers to finally tell a story of tomato domestication that fits all the available...
Eat This Newsletter 179: A fresh look at farming
Hello I have a problem with podcasts that goes way beyond making my own. It is that I can really only listen when I am walking, flying, boating or training....
Eat This Podcast: Aaron Vallance — 1dish4theroad
Hello Aaron Vallance's writing at his website 1dish4theroad has twice been shortlisted by the Guild of Food Writers, not bad for someone who admits to having...
Eat This Newsletter 178: Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
Hello Things have been a bit topsy-turvy lately, so please accept a newsletter instead of a podcast episode this week. Normal service will be resumed as soon...
Eat This Newsletter 177: Watchamacallit
Hello I'm still bleating on about the naming of things, and I suspect nothing will ever stop me. Cattle denazification There was an unfortunate, but all too...
Eat This Podcast: Yes, we have no plantains
Hello Jessica Kehinde Ngo recently wrote an impassioned piece bemoaning the fact that “the plantain has long been eclipsed by its banana cousin”. That...
Eat This Newsletter 176: Could be ...
Hello This newsletter is half hypothetical and half rooted in reality. Which is which? I couldn’t possibly say. What price patriotism? If there is a label on...
Eat This Podcast: Food Philosophy
Hello Discussions about food often “bump up against philosophy,” according to David Kaplan. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Texas,...
Eat This Newsletter 175: A wing and a prayer
Hello In last week’s podcast, I asked whether we should distinguish food poverty from poverty, pure and simple. Following up, this week’s newsletter is...
Eat This Podcast: Unconditional cash to improve nutrition
Hello Give Directly is a charity that was started by students at Harvard and MIT after their research showed that a lot of philanthopy was both very...
Eat This Newsletter 174: Bitter and dark
Hello Back in the swing of things now, alternating podcast episodes and newsletters. STOP PRESS: This just in (see item 3 below): An African immigrant's...
Eat This Podcast: New season, old food!
Hello Way back when, Neolithic people discovered that they could eat milk that had gone sour with impunity, even though ordinary milk upset their digestion....
Eat This Newsletter 173: January's point-counterpoint: "So, this is bacon!"
Hello I had fully intended to release a podcast today, but the honest truth is that I’m not ready. I am still trying to get more guests lined up for the next...
