Eat This Podcast: Still hungry after all these years
Hello India, like most places on Earth, suffered its fair share of famines over the centuries. When Indian politicians gained independence in 1947, they...
Eat This Newsletter 154: Hyper-regional and hyper-diverse
Hello Why shouldn’t people in Alaska have strawberries year-round, if that’s what they want? And why shouldn’t students in Delhi latch onto an abominable...
Eat This Podcast: The original global food system
Hello Chris Otter’s book Diet for a Large Planet shows how the British Empire, starting in the late 18th century, outsourced much of its food supply, paving...
Eat This Newsletter 153: Not a prime (but divisible by 17)
Hello This week’s haul has prompted me to mull over how hard it is fully to understand other discourses. It’s good to be reminded how little I know. The cost...
Eat This Podcast: Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?
Hello That’s the title of a new book from Jess Fanzo, a globally-recognized thinker on food systems and professor at Johns Hopkins University. The book...
Eat This Newsletter 152: Unadulterated
Hello If it seems to good to be true, it probably is. An optimistic piece from Puglia Puglia, the heel on the boot of Italy is, as you'll know if you've...
Eat This Podcast: A very modern spice merchant
Hello Arun Kapil first started selling spices from a farmers market stall in Cork, Ireland. That was about 15 years ago. This past month, Green Saffron, the...
Eat This Newsletter 151: Cringeworthy
Hello What is it about countries that makes them want a national dish? Or, indeed, a national myth? Rants from Down Under What a treat to read an Australian...
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...
