Eat This Newsletter 246: Raw Truth
Hello After last week’s recall of contaminated plant-based beverages, something else to cry over: serious illness caused by unpasteurised milk. If people...
Eat This Newsletter 245: Fruity
Hello Food-borne illness, expensive fruit, and plant-based pet food. The really scary part of the CDC’s Outbreaks pages is just how many of them there are....
Eat This Newsletter 244: Tuna
Hello Only one story this week, and an optimistic one at that. Tuna Bounce Back Bluefin tuna in the Pacific passed a significant milestone on their road to...
Eat This Newsletter 243: Follow-up
Hello The weekly schedule does sometimes mean that there is less to share, and two of today’s items hark back to previous weeks. I hope that’s OK. PTOV beats...
Eat This Newsletter 242: Ontological uncertainty
Hello It is a mystery why sub-editors continue to ask questions in headlines, when the answer is almost invariably “No”. But they do, which gives me the...
Eat This Newsletter 241: Periodic
Hello I’m very grateful to a reader who pointed out that something wasn’t working properly on the website and that made several past episodes invisible. Or...
Eat This Podcast: Palatable is not Potable
Hello Water is tricky stuff. It can be limpid and clear but dangerous, home to harmful bacteria and parasites. It can be murky, but perfectly safe to drink....
Eat This Newsletter 240: Enriched evidence
Hello In this roundup, some truths about potash, qualified health claims for yogurt, gastronationalism now and then, and the hoops some UK plant breeders...
Eat This Podcast: Women Butchers
Hello Wherever you look, cheap supermarket meat has made life hard for butchers. At the same time, a few younger people are taking much more of an interest...
ETN 239: Denials
Hello Yes, this ought to be an episode not a newsletter, but sometimes life gets in the way. Also, a kind of housekeeping note prompted by the first article....
ETN 238: History & Nutrition
Hello Things do seem to cluster, or perhaps my attention makes that happen. So here is a little history and a lot of nutrition Unravelled by Climate The...
Eat This Podcast: Leftovers
Hello We all know we’re supposed to reduce our food waste, but what exactly is the difference between waste and leftovers? For me, leftovers become waste...
Eat This Newsletter 237: Shredded
Hello Why is this newsletter half a day late? Because I’ve been away riding my bicycle on an exciting three-day adventure, which included eating my first...
Eat This Podcast: What is Chametz
Hello One of the key activities in an observant Jewish household’s preparation for Passover is the hunt for and destruction of chametz, anything that...
Eat This Newsletter 236: Leavened
Hello A further celebration of Passover, fish diversity, citrus salads and livestock emissions. Passover as Identity Many Jews will be celebrating Passover...
Eat This Podcast: Passover and Easter Revisited
Hello Easter was two weeks ago. Passover is next week. But in 2019, they were effectively on the same day. I'm taking the opportunity to resurrect an older...
Eat This Podcast: Malta Besieged
Hello Malta, just off the coast of Sicily in the middle of the Mediterranean, has always been of enormous strategic importance. As a result it has been...
Eat This Newsletter 235: Feel Good
Hello A selection of somewhat positive stories, culled from around the web. EU protects distant forests, AP says A new EU regulation that comes into force at...
Eat This Newsletter: Happy Rapa Nui
Hello I’m quite pleased with myself for running down better sources for two items this week, doing the work so you don’t have to. Chile: falling obesity is...
Eat This Podcast: The case for folic acid fortification
Spina bifida is a neural tube defect that is one of the most common severe birth defects in the world., and the main cause is a lack of folate vitamin in the...