Eat This Podcast: Coffea stenophylla tastes terrific
Hello A little less than a year ago I talked to Professor Jeremy Haggar about his successful search for Coffea stenophylla in Sierra Leone. A hundred years...
Eat This Newsletter 150: One hundred and fifty not out
Hello Hard to believe this is edition No. 150 of Eat This Newsletter. When I started, in April 2015, I justified myself thusly: “Someone recently said that...
Eat This Podcast: What is agriculture for, really?
Hello Colin Tudge has been writing about food and farming for a long time in a series of thought-provoking books. His latest is The Great Re-Think, which...
Eat This Newsletter 149: Technology to the rescue
Hello Sometimes I get the feeling I’m just spinning my wheels here, as the same topics go round and round. Then I console myself with the thought that that’s...
Eat This Podcast: What is the value of functional foods?
Hello “[B]etween 2011 and 2015 there was a phenomenal 202% increase globally in the number of new food and drink products launched containing the terms...
Eat This Newsletter 148: Impeccable pedigrees
Hello As we in the northern hemisphere round the corner into spring, let’s start this round-up in Australia. At the circus, riding two horses at once There...
Eat This Podcast: Naomi Duguid: Exploring the World through Food
Hello Naomi Duguid travels the world — mostly in Asia — and brings back sensitive insights into the people and their food. She’s a photographer, writer,...
Eat This Newsletter 147: This'll warm the cockles
Hello The internet has been bountiful once again, so here are the things I have found most interesting these past couple of weeks. Archival cockle collectors...
Eat This Podcast: The cost is too damn high
Hello Three billion people couldn’t afford a healthy diet even if they wanted to. How do we know? The World Bank collects a massive amount of data in its...
Eat This Newsletter 146: Unbalanced diet
Hello I know we should all be eating just a little animal-sourced food for a balanced and sustainable diet, but sometime, overindulgence beckons. This is one...
Eat This Podcast: Still ticking
Hello As a young biology student, one of the things I and my classmates worried about was population. Firebrands like Paul Ehrlich whipped us up, and Limits...
Eat This Newsletter 145: Mixed bag
Hello No pictures, no preliminaries; let’s just have at it. A long noodle story Miranda Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan has...
Eat This Podcast: The importance of yesterday’s heritage breeds for tomorrow's food supply
Hello Modern livestock breeds are incredibly efficient, gaining weight at a prodigious rate and supplying astonishing quantities of milk and eggs. That...
Eat This Newsletter 144: What goes around
Hello A day late and a dollar short — except that it isn’t short. I won’t whine about why this edition is late, it’s all my own fault. But I will point out...
Eat This Podcast: The International Year of Fruits and Vegetables
Hello This is the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, as designated by the United Nations and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization...
Eat This Newsletter 143: Does contain nuts
Hello I’m still enjoying the winter break, and hard at work on the next series of podcasts, so here’s another newsletter, for now. The peanut papers Just in...
Eat This Newsletter 142: Happy New Year
Hello Of course marking a new year on one specific day is a cultural artefact, and many cultures are doing their best to maintain their own markers. Throwing...
Eat This Newsletter 141: Too good to waste
Hello I’ve noticed in the past how, when I am thinking about some topic, I am much more likely to notice things related to that topic, and so it was with...
Eat This Podcast: Oh, poop
Hello It’s time to face an uncomfortable fact. After more than 200 episodes devoted in their various ways to what we eat and drink, I’ve never looked at the...
Eat This Newsletter 140: Concentration not needed
Hello Once again, I’ve been sipping from the firehose of the internet so you don’t have to. Here’s what I found. Concentrate! More and more of the global...