Eat This Podcast: You are what you drink
Or maybe you drink what you are. Hello This is the second episode in my little mini-series on taste. Chad Ludington, author of The Politics of Wine in...
Eat This Newsletter 123: Meat matters
Hello Last time I tried hard to find stories that were not about Covid-19. What has emerged clearly, though, is that the disease has suddenly opened people’s...
Eat This Podcast: What is good taste? What tastes good?
Hello Can we say anything sensible about taste? Part of me knows that taste is entirely subjective. But another part of me is quite willing to think about...
Eat This Newsletter 122: a series of smooth segues
Hello It is all but impossible to avoid Covid stories about food, or anything else. I’ve tried, honest. Other diseases are still around Not to make light of...
Eat This Podcast: The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
Hello The Man Who Tried to Feed the World is the title of a new TV documentary about Norman Borlaug, the plant breeder credited with launching the Green...
Eat This Newsletter 121: Ooops. I forgot one of the links.
Hello I hope everyone is bearing up. We certainly are, and if my homemade pizza isn’t as good as the stuff we’re accustomed to, well … too bad. At least it...
Eat This Podcast: The true heart of Russian Food
Hello Darra Goldstein combines a scholar’s knowledge of history and literature with a cook’s interest in recipes and ingredients. Her latest book took her on...
Eat This Newsletter 120: An opportunity?
Hello I’m honestly torn about today’s issue of the newsletter. People are sharing all sorts of tips about how to cook in a time of crisis, some more paranoid...
Eat This Podcast: Remembering the food of the past, no matter how bad it was
Hello The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food – published in 1939 – was a complete guide for Soviet citizens. It was both practical and propaganda, with pictures...
Eat This Newsletter 119: Ceci n’est pas une poire
Hello Few but good, that’s the underlying narrative for this edition of Eat This Newsletter. Apples and pears A charming story about Isabella dalla Ragione,...
Eat This Podcast: Orange-fleshed sweet potato
Hello You can be perfectly well fed, maybe even too well fed, and yet still malnourished. Hidden hunger reflects a lack of essential micronutrients in the...
Eat This Newsletter 118: Toot toot
Hello Maybe it’s because I have now been at this lark for almost seven years, but everything I see as I wander the interwebs seems to relate to something...
Eat This Podcast: Another cup of coffee culture
Hello The UK was not a big coffee drinker for quite a while after the first proper espresso machines made their appearance in Soho. Not so the United States,...
Eat This Newsletter 117: Old and new
Hello I’ve been doing a bit of an early spring clean in some of the places where I keep lists of things I want to read at some point, and in the process...
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...