Eat This Newsletter 263: Connectivity
Hello I’m struck, once again, by the connections it is possible to make with very little effort. Sugar craving, cheap ultraprocessed calories, cheap food for...
Eat This Newsletter 262: Forage
Hello Not much news this week. People seem to be preoccupied with other things, among them the price of eggs. Here’s a chart that touches on the matter, from...
Eat This Newsletter 261: Consistently flawless
Hello Dietary guidelines face “an unfair fight from the start”. No such thing as officially organic cannabis. Family-owned fast food is sketchier. And, what...
Eat This Newsletter 260: Consolidated
Hello, and Happy New Year Two pieces about food and place, two pieces about the perils of industrial food, and one blast about why the food system is as...
Eat This Newsletter: Call a Sprat a Sprat
You could call it doggedly pursuing the truth wherever it may lead. You could also call it borderline obsessive. Whatever you call it, here is a piece only...
Eat This Newsletter 259: Ring out the old
Hello Just a few things from the between times. Gildas From a far-flung correspondent comes news of a “a bar here in Sydney called Gilda’s in Surry Hills,...
Sensual, Salty, and a Little Bit Spicy
Hello No apologies for once again casting my net in the fruitful waters of Basque cuisine and history. There is a pintxo — those tasty bites of stuff on a...
Eat This Newsletter 258: Gifted
Hello Gearing up to wind down. I’ve one more podcast episode in store before I take a short break, during which I will try to keep the newsletter coming each...
Eat This Podcast: Better Diets for All
“In a way,” says Corinna Hawkes, “the multinational food industry is providing solutions for women.” Her point is that demonising industrial food, for...
Eat This Newsletter: Trust busted
Hello I’m sorry I linked to the piece on slavery in Aporia magazine. In my defense, I will say that I did note both my disquiet and that I had not had time...
Eat This Newsletter: Taken on Trust
ETN 257: Taken on Trust Hello Sometimes I just can't pursue the stories I link to in the kind of depth I would like. This is one of those times. I hope that...
Eat This Podcast: Bennett’s Law
Hello What foods do poor people buy when they have a bit more money? First, they change from coarse grains — things like sorghum or millet — to fine grains,...
Eat This Newsletter 256: Lengthy
Hello Bumper fun this week with a selection that includes four long reads. Save them for a rainy day and they should see you through to next week’s podcast...
Eat This Podcast: The Cost of a Healthy Diet
Let’s assume that people understand what they ought to eat to keep themselves healthy over the course of their lives and that the nutritious food to deliver...
Eat This Newsletter 255: Gamut
Hello A bit of a bumper issue this week, with topics ranging from the parochial to the mundane, which is exactly the way I like it. India, Land o’ Contrasts...
Eat This Podcast: How the Spanish learned to love anchovies
For hundreds of years the people of Spain, with the exception of the good people of Malaga, who developed a thing for deep-fried fresh anchovies, ignored the...
Eat This Newsletter 254: Déjà vu
Hello An interesting balance today. Two pieces that tackle ideas in depth new to me and four that amplify things already shared. No Such Thing? Were you...
Anchovies: a work of art in a can
Anchovies can be very divisive; some people absolutely cannot stand them. I can’t get enough of the little blighters. What’s the difference? It might be as...
Eat This Newsletter 253: Conflict
This edition explores UK nutrition conflicts, the tomato's rise in India, and lead in turmeric.
Eat This Podcast: Crunch Time
Insects are not going to save us Black soldier flies making more black soldier flies Hello If only we could get over our squeamishness, insects can save the...
