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Eat This Newsletter 105: junk science
August 5, 2019
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
July 22, 2019
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 ...
July 8, 2019
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...
Eat This Newsletter 102: ne plus ultra
June 24, 2019
Medieval fisherperson Hello As promised, I have finally returned to the topic of ultra-processed food. My jumping off point is a heartfelt comment from...
Eat This Newsletter 101
June 4, 2019
The Hive at Kew, bringing eyesight to the blind Hello Cheesemakers in Scotland are celebrating something of a victory over Food Standards Scotland (FSS). To...
Eat This Newsletter 100
May 21, 2019
Hello I'm in the middle of an exchange with Robert Shewfelt, whose definition of "processed" foods I took issue with in the previous Eat This Newsletter. So...
Eat This Podcast: Housekeeping
May 13, 2019
Hello I’m going to be taking a little break. This episode explains that, and rounds up some of the responses to the show about Eating Alone. Special thanks...
Eat This Newsletter 099
May 6, 2019
Hello Cheese, processed food and wheat. Not too many things caught my eye over the past couple of weeks, which is just as well as the few that did called for...
Eat This Podcast: Eating Alone
April 29, 2019
Hello Eating alone is something we all have to do for one reason or another. In Maureen's case, it was because her husband had died and left her cooking for...
Eat This Newsletter 098
April 22, 2019
Hello Another round up of food-related stories for you, some fresh, some maybe not so fresh. And a little bit of a rant. How did you celebrate World Idli...
Eat This Podcast: Celebrating Passover and Easter
April 15, 2019
Hello I don’t know whether the last supper was a Passover Seder. I do know that the rituals of the Passover dinner have been in place for thousands of years,...
Eat This Newsletter 097
April 8, 2019
Hello I'm on the road, gathering fresh stories and trying to do the nomadic worker thing. To be perfectly honest, though, the wifi is too patchy to be...
Eat This Podcast: A historian of bread
April 1, 2019
Hello William Rubel is a freelance food historian, and he takes a dim view of some of the claims made by modern artisan bakers. I thought it only right,...
Eat This Newsletter 096
March 25, 2019
Hello Something to chew on … Let’s get this out of the way right at the start. You can now buy a “chewable vegetable-shaped baby toy which stimulates baby’s...
Eat This Podcast: Prehistoric food globalisation
March 18, 2019
Hello A new research paper offers a more comprehensive – and more nuanced – view of where agriculture began and how it spread from small, localised centres...
Eat This Newsletter 095
March 11, 2019
Hello With any luck, if these emails were going to your spam folder, they aren’t any more. So, let’s get to it. If you’re the kind of person who really...
Eat This Podcast: We need to talk about meat
March 4, 2019
Hello Meat exercises the imagination in a way no other food can match. Some people have always wanted to ban carnivory. For others it is an essential fuel....
Eat This Newsletter 094
February 25, 2019
Hello I’ve switched to a new mailing-list manager, for reasons that I may go into at some point in the future. For now, I hope you received the email I just...
Eat This Newsletter 094
February 24, 2019
Hello I've switched to a new mailing-list manager, for reasons that I may go into at some point in the future. For now, I hope you received the email I just...
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