Eat This Podcast: Pasta Grannies: Every family shoould have one
Hello Each week, a kindly, twinkling grannie creates pasta by hand, making it look as easy as falling off a log. Her hands work unsupervised; kneading,...
Eat This Newsletter 113: Plenty
Hello Christmas has come early this year, with a sackful of pieces that are not only long and entertaining reads, but also stretch beyond the USA, even those...
Eat This Podcast: Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique
Hello After the previous episode on how capuchin monkeys find their food, a few of you told me that you hadn’t known how difficult and dangerous it is to get...
Eat This Newsletter 112: Depressing
Hello Here’s a strange little research result. A group of young people in Indonesia were offered tastes of nine different samples of tempeh. (Tempeh is a...
Eat This Podcast: How capuchin monkeys learn about food
Hello Chimpanzees fishing for termites with a slender branch is, by now, old hat. But did you know that capuchin monkeys, much less closely related to our...
Eat This Newsletter 111: Foodstuffs
Hello If you're reading this, relax. You're already entered for the prize draw of a copy of Peter Hertzmann's new book, 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot. Probably....
Eat This Podcast: 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot
Hello A rainbow handful of carrots graces the cover of Peter Hertzmann's new book. But you can't judge a book by its cover. Or even by its title, because...
Eat This Newsletter 110: Porridge (and other) news
Hello Another round-up of food-related stuff that I think you may find interesting. Some spurtle thoughts, after last week’s episode. I asked another...
Eat This Podcast: Porridge
Hello Normally, I'm the last person in the world to know about the international day of this, that or the other. Not this year. This year is different,...
Eat This Newsletter 109: No news is bad news
There's no escape from agricultural policy these days, not even if you retreat to rice in history. You get what you pay for Or maybe you pay for what you...
Eat This Podcast: Radish redux
Hello "All the intrigue of a murder mystery and all the painstaking, arduous pursuit of an archeological dig." For a radish. Well, the quote is from a press...
Eat This Newsletter 108: Govern, please
An opportunity to change food for the better I have no idea what Brexit will mean for food in the UK in the short-term. I do know what it could mean in the...
Eat This Podcast: When in Rome
Hello Rome was founded on the promise of a food-based prophesy, and over the past couple of millennia has seen a lot of change in what passes for Roman...
Eat This Newsletter 107: microbes!
Hello, and welcome to all new subscribers. Lots to chew on this issue. Every month is microbes month Sourdough September is upon us once again. A noble...
Eat This Podcast: A sweet sour story
Hello A while ago, I was sitting in O'Seachnasaíth's public house in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick in Ireland, enjoying a final Guinness after the Hearsay Audio...
Eat This Newsletter 106: restaurants and more
Hello Who’d be a restaurant critic? I’m old enough to remember when Bourne & Hollingsworth was a rather dowdy department store in London. Now, apparently, it...
Eat This Podcast: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Hello In 2013, a few olive trees near Gallipoli, in Lecce province in the heel of Italy's boot, seemed to be dying of drought even though there was water....
Eat This Newsletter 105: junk science
Hello There seems to be a dearth of interesting news about food these days. Maybe that’s a summer lull, which would reflect my northern hemisphere bias....
Eat This Newsletter 104: big pictures
Hello This edition seems to be all about big pictures. Nothing wrong with that, not at all. But here’s a little dessert before the main course: The...
Eat This Newsletter 103: speaking of which ...
Hello I’m racing around a bit this month, having fun, teaching bread-making and preparing for the return of the podcast in three weeks or so. As a result, no...