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...
Eat This Newsletter 172: Policy, potato and Pleurotus
Hello I hope you had a good break over the holiday season, if you had a break at all. I know I did. So, here we go again, with my hand-picked selection of...
Eat This Podcast: High Art
Hello The 5th edition of the Biennial of Photography on Industry and Work in Bologna focussed attention on food. All of the 11 exhibitions were really...
Eat This Newsletter 171: Proletarian
Hello Lots to get your teeth into in this issue, from public relations idiocy to the idiocy of ideology. Oh Canada, about your chickens Here are some jaw-...
Eat This Podcast: Visit an ancient Roman bakery
Hello Down the River Tiber from Rome is the huge archaeological site of Ostia Antica, which used to be the main port for the city. It’s all ruins now, of...
Eat This Newsletter 170: From science to satire
Hello In general, things that delight, instruct or entertain are the order of the day here. Occasionally, though, I find it necessary to point to stuff I...
Eat This Podcast: The true history of the potato in Europe
Hello Perhaps you’ve heard stories about the history of the potato in Europe. Ignorant peasants shun the potato until a wily aristocrat — or even the monarch...
Eat This Newsletter 169: Turning back the clocks
Hello It was nice to wake up this morning with the sun shining, although it will be awful to drink my tea this afternoon in the dark. Still, I do love the...
Eat This Podcast: Twenty-one letters, fifty shapes, unlimited possibilities
Hello Rachel Roddy’s new book is An A-Z of Pasta: Stories, Shapes, Sauces, Recipes. She wisely recognised that there was little point in trying to be...
Eat This Newsletter 168: Nobody expects …
Hello A mixed bag, and that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it. I hope you do too. An app to measure starvation … … but not to fix it This article – A new...
Eat This Podcast: Midnight’s chicken
Hello After the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, a young chef brought the tandoor oven and his tandoori chicken from Peshawar to a new restaurant he...
Eat This Newsletter 167: Clear, simple and wrong
Hello Advanced technology is a wonderful thing — how else would I be able to communicate with you all? — but there are some problems that just aren't...
Eat This Podcast: Sushi: From Necessity to Ubiquity
Hello The California Roll was only the beginning. Or at least, the beginning of global domination, after a couple of thousand years of quiet evolution. In...
Eat This Newsletter 166: Interconnected
Interconnected Hello It isn’t possible to fix complicated problems with simple solutions. It’s all connected Are you worried about too much carbon dioxide in...
Eat This Podcast: How coffee ties Italy, Brazil and Italian East Africa to one another
Hello And we’re back, after a terrific summer break. Diana Garvin, an historian, recently published a paper that examines what she calls the Italian coffee...
Eat This Newsletter 165: A Podcast Delayed
Hello An unforeseen circumstance dashed my hopes, and perhaps yours too, of a new episode of the podcast today. But there’s no point in being your own boss...
Eat This Newsletter 164: Food News in Person
Hello The temperature suddenly dropped by about 10 degrees C a couple of days ago, a sure sign that I need to get back to producing episodes of the podcast....
Eat This Newsletter 163: Food Justice
Hello My thanks to the people who wrote to tell me that garlic noodles is indeed a dish worth pursuing, and especially to Lenore, a supporter, who pointed me...
Eat This Newsletter 162: Hyperlocal
Hello Is it voyeuristic to want to learn about things you are unlikely ever to experience? Obviously I don’t think so, or I wouldn’t be doing what I do....
Eat This Newsletter 161: Visionaries
Hello Nice to have a little uptick in subscribers this past week. Welcome, and thanks to Susan MacMillan, whose newsletter Taking Stock is one I enjoy...