Eat This Podcast: Coffee culture in Italy and England
Hello Why is this man having a shave while he is being served a cappuccino? Because he has time. The coffee is so hot it is going to take a while to reach...
Eat This Newsletter 116: Eat well
Eat well to do good Hello Veganuary is almost over, for those partaking, and my offerings this week briefly reflect the hot water carnivory has got itself...
Eat This Podcast: A spurtle makes a superior stirrer
Hello With a bag of porridge oats in my baggage, I set off for Georgetown University and a date with science. What we discovered, thanks to the efforts of Dr...
Eat This Newsletter 115: Chewy bonus
Some things to chew on Hello I know I said I was going to take a holiday break, but it turns out I couldn’t keep away. Mostly that’s because I have no desire...
Eat This Podcast: Not car sharing, cow sharing
Hello In some cities, you can download an app to your phone that gives you access to a car, yours to drive for a flat fee per minute. Something similar is...
Eat This Newsletter 114: Happies
Wring out the old Hello This is almost certainly the last newsletter before I take a holiday break. Whatever you’re doing, I hope you have a good time. I...
Eat This Podcast: Pasta Grannies: Every family shoould have one
Hello Each week, a kindly, twinkling grannie creates pasta by hand, making it look as easy as falling off a log. Her hands work unsupervised; kneading,...
Eat This Newsletter 113: Plenty
Hello Christmas has come early this year, with a sackful of pieces that are not only long and entertaining reads, but also stretch beyond the USA, even those...
Eat This Podcast: Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique
Hello After the previous episode on how capuchin monkeys find their food, a few of you told me that you hadn’t known how difficult and dangerous it is to get...
Eat This Newsletter 112: Depressing
Hello Here’s a strange little research result. A group of young people in Indonesia were offered tastes of nine different samples of tempeh. (Tempeh is a...
Eat This Podcast: How capuchin monkeys learn about food
Hello Chimpanzees fishing for termites with a slender branch is, by now, old hat. But did you know that capuchin monkeys, much less closely related to our...
Eat This Newsletter 111: Foodstuffs
Hello If you're reading this, relax. You're already entered for the prize draw of a copy of Peter Hertzmann's new book, 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot. Probably....
Eat This Podcast: 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot
Hello A rainbow handful of carrots graces the cover of Peter Hertzmann's new book. But you can't judge a book by its cover. Or even by its title, because...
Eat This Newsletter 110: Porridge (and other) news
Hello Another round-up of food-related stuff that I think you may find interesting. Some spurtle thoughts, after last week’s episode. I asked another...
Eat This Podcast: Porridge
Hello Normally, I'm the last person in the world to know about the international day of this, that or the other. Not this year. This year is different,...
Eat This Newsletter 109: No news is bad news
There's no escape from agricultural policy these days, not even if you retreat to rice in history. You get what you pay for Or maybe you pay for what you...
Eat This Podcast: Radish redux
Hello "All the intrigue of a murder mystery and all the painstaking, arduous pursuit of an archeological dig." For a radish. Well, the quote is from a press...
Eat This Newsletter 108: Govern, please
An opportunity to change food for the better I have no idea what Brexit will mean for food in the UK in the short-term. I do know what it could mean in the...
Eat This Podcast: When in Rome
Hello Rome was founded on the promise of a food-based prophesy, and over the past couple of millennia has seen a lot of change in what passes for Roman...
Eat This Newsletter 107: microbes!
Hello, and welcome to all new subscribers. Lots to chew on this issue. Every month is microbes month Sourdough September is upon us once again. A noble...