Eat This Podcast: Biodiversity at Liberty
Hello, Since 1966, the European Union has had the most restrictive laws in the world on agricultural biodiversity. To be marketed, a variety has to be...
Eat This Newsletter 195 – New Year
Hello Happy New Year? Sad New Year? New Year, for sure. Crisis? What Crisis? I’m taking the opportunity to link to Aaron Smith’s post from early March last...
Eat This Podcast: Feed Your Baby Like a Fascist
Mussolini made the trains run on time, but that doesn’t work for hungry infants
ETN 194: Exchanges
Hello Not much to share with you at this season, because most of what is being shared with me is reheated leftovers. Here’s to the future. Complicating the...
Eat This Podcast: Some thoughts on markets and more
Hello Things have been wild in international wheat markets this year. The price shot up after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, but had started rising well...
Eat This Newsletter 193: Disconnected
Hello Taken individually so many things we read about the food system make no sense whatsoever. Perhaps Corinna Hawkes is right, and it really needs to see a...
Eat This Podcast: A Restaurant’s Reckoning
Hello There’s a school of thought that says we should judge the art, not the artist. Is the same true for restaurants? Piggie Park serves barbecue in South...
Eat This Newsletter 192: Digested
Sometimes it is fun to pull on a thread and watch the unravelling. Other times, it is more fun to read about someone else doing the same.
Eat This Podcast: How to be a good host and a good guest
Asking for a doctor’s note when your guest says they are allergic or intolerant is not an option
Eat This Newsletter 191: Lukewarm Takes
Hello Feast or famine, in this newsletter as in life. Even after judicious culling of the crooked and blemished ones, 13 items jostle for attention. Russia...
Eat This Podcast -- Feeding children well
Hello A wet nurse (for that is what Hera was in all tellings of the story) created the Milky Way when her divine milk sprayed across the heavens. Today’s...
Eat This Newsletter 190: Inundated
Hello Feast or famine, in this newsletter as in life. Even after judicious culling of the crooked and blemished ones, 13 items jostle for attention. Russia...
Eat This Newsletter 189: Inauthentic
Hello Authenticity is big again this week. I’m not against that, I just don’t feel like doing it myself. Whodunnit Who Invented Mac and Cheese? asks an...
Eat This Podcast -- Mothers and Milk
Hello A wet nurse (for that is what Hera was in all tellings of the story) created the Milky Way when her divine milk sprayed across the heavens. Today’s...
Eat This Newsletter 188: Tasting Menu
Hello Things seem to be picking up again after the (northern) summer lull. A bumper crop these past couple of weeks, even after some judicious weeding, so...
Eat This Podcast -- Fad diets are too good to be true
Hello Eat This Podcast is back with new episodes. And they really are new, unlike most fad diets, which are usually just an old fad diet with a new wrinkle....
Eat This Podcast -- No surplus calves
Hello I've just listened to a very interesting podcast episode about the growth of the dairy industry in the US, and I'm pretty sure I will have more to say...
Eat This Newsletter 187: Legends
Hello I’ve been hard at work on the next series. ETA: 19 September. But that hasn’t stopped me scouring the internets in search of additional sustenance....
Eat This Podcast -- Fresh old salame
Hello There’s no use pretending otherwise. Today’s foray into the back catalogue is inspired by National Salami Day, which is not until next week and which...
Eat This Newsletter 186: Nutritious news
Hello A quick confession; I have finally uploaded transcripts for the four episodes on wheat and human history. Sorry it took so long. Supporters of Eat This...