Eat This Newsletter 237: Shredded
Hello Why is this newsletter half a day late? Because I’ve been away riding my bicycle on an exciting three-day adventure, which included eating my first...
Eat This Podcast: What is Chametz
Hello One of the key activities in an observant Jewish household’s preparation for Passover is the hunt for and destruction of chametz, anything that...
Eat This Newsletter 236: Leavened
Hello A further celebration of Passover, fish diversity, citrus salads and livestock emissions. Passover as Identity Many Jews will be celebrating Passover...
Eat This Podcast: Passover and Easter Revisited
Hello Easter was two weeks ago. Passover is next week. But in 2019, they were effectively on the same day. I'm taking the opportunity to resurrect an older...
Eat This Podcast: Malta Besieged
Hello Malta, just off the coast of Sicily in the middle of the Mediterranean, has always been of enormous strategic importance. As a result it has been...
Eat This Newsletter 235: Feel Good
Hello A selection of somewhat positive stories, culled from around the web. EU protects distant forests, AP says A new EU regulation that comes into force at...
Eat This Newsletter: Happy Rapa Nui
Hello I’m quite pleased with myself for running down better sources for two items this week, doing the work so you don’t have to. Chile: falling obesity is...
Eat This Podcast: The case for folic acid fortification
Spina bifida is a neural tube defect that is one of the most common severe birth defects in the world., and the main cause is a lack of folate vitamin in the...
Eat This Newsletter 233: Leavened
Hello Another serving of bits and bobs from around the internet, from the very serious to the very silly. A balanced diet, I hope. —— Lead The other shoe has...
Eat This Newsletter: Anthony Mongiello, Inventor of the Stuffed Crust Pizza
Hello Pizza Hut says it invented the stuffed crust pizza. A judge agreed. But Anthony Mongiello has US patent 4,661,361, no matter what the law says. A...
Eat This Newsletter 232: Shokuiku
Hello My thanks to a subscriber who used the piece in the previous issue about pricey and perfect Japanese fruit to send me links to two videos, one about...
Eat This Podcast: Prehistoric Cooking Pots
Mesolithic hunter-gatherer woman and child wearing cloaks adorned with fish teeth. Drawing by Mauro Cutrona Six thousand years ago in northern Europe, the...
Eat This Newsletter 231: Apologies
Oh, the perils of being a one-person-show. I have nobody to blame for the gobbledygook that marred my most recent email except myself. This is how it should...
Eat This Newsletter 231; Globalised
Hello A circumnavigation for you all this issue — from the US via India, Japan, Australia and Mexico back to the US — with a few ingredients holding the...
Eat This Podcast: The Invention of Baby Food
Solid food at one month of age? Unthinkable today, but not in 1950s America. Amy Bentley, a professor at New York University, has charted the rise and...
Eat This Newsletter 230: Chicken and tomatoes
Hello Another spat in the world of recipe invention, a pointless campaign against cultured meat and a cruel dilemma for tomato breeders. All this and more...
Eat This Newsletter 229: Milk and Memory
Hello Today's delivery is later than usual because this is one of those issues in which I report Brand New Science, which I am not allowed to do until...
Eat This Newsletter 228: Brave New Year
Hello This first substantive issue for 2024 offers a couple of articles that I found thought-provoking because, of course, I had already thought along...
Eat This Newsletter 227: Winner!
Hello, and Happy Newish Year Eat This Newsletter 226 announced my Xmas Quiz. Today, we have a winner. Maarten van Ginkel in Amsterdam had the best score...
Eat This Newsletter 226: Xmas Quiz
Hello As promised last week, something a little different to round out the year. A quiz, 18 questions, one for each episode. You can find some way to...
