Eat This Podcast: Patrik Johansson, the Butter Viking
Ten years ago, the first episode of Eat This Podcast featured Ben Reade talking about some butter that he had buried in a Swedish bog, the better to...
Eat This Newsletter 200: It has been brought to my attention …
Hello I regard myself as something of a connoisseur of weasel words, and so for this celebratory edition — 200, can you believe it? — a few choice examples....
Eat This Newsletter 199: Accept no substitute
Hello One overarching topic this week; the other couple of things I saved will keep. The Commercial Milk Formula Industry [W]e use the term CMF instead of...
Eat This Newsletter 198 -- A Fresh Look
Hello Re-evaluating coffee, Jamaican jerk and industrial food waste. Decolonising Coffee Earlier this week I sat in on a webinar about how the industrial...
Eat This Podcast: Food Security in Egypt
The price of subsidised bread in Egypt has not changed in decades, though the bread shrunk. That remains a huge challenge to security, for the government and the people.
Eat This Newsletter 197 -- More or less
Hello Efforts to undermine industrial agriculture alongside stories hoping to reverse the decline. Diversity is everything. Eggsorbitent Profits Is it...
Eat This Podcast: Fully Tested Tuna
One tin of tuna may contain 10 times more mercury than another, and there’s no way to tell them apart.
Eat This Newsletter 196 — Invented Traditions
Is food more susceptible to invented traditions than other topics? It sometimes seems so.
Eat This Podcast: Biodiversity at Liberty
Hello, Since 1966, the European Union has had the most restrictive laws in the world on agricultural biodiversity. To be marketed, a variety has to be...
Eat This Newsletter 195 – New Year
Hello Happy New Year? Sad New Year? New Year, for sure. Crisis? What Crisis? I’m taking the opportunity to link to Aaron Smith’s post from early March last...
Eat This Podcast: Feed Your Baby Like a Fascist
Mussolini made the trains run on time, but that doesn’t work for hungry infants
ETN 194: Exchanges
Hello Not much to share with you at this season, because most of what is being shared with me is reheated leftovers. Here’s to the future. Complicating the...
Eat This Podcast: Some thoughts on markets and more
Hello Things have been wild in international wheat markets this year. The price shot up after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, but had started rising well...
Eat This Newsletter 193: Disconnected
Hello Taken individually so many things we read about the food system make no sense whatsoever. Perhaps Corinna Hawkes is right, and it really needs to see a...
Eat This Podcast: A Restaurant’s Reckoning
Hello There’s a school of thought that says we should judge the art, not the artist. Is the same true for restaurants? Piggie Park serves barbecue in South...
Eat This Newsletter 192: Digested
Sometimes it is fun to pull on a thread and watch the unravelling. Other times, it is more fun to read about someone else doing the same.
Eat This Podcast: How to be a good host and a good guest
Asking for a doctor’s note when your guest says they are allergic or intolerant is not an option
Eat This Newsletter 191: Lukewarm Takes
Hello Feast or famine, in this newsletter as in life. Even after judicious culling of the crooked and blemished ones, 13 items jostle for attention. Russia...
Eat This Podcast -- Feeding children well
Hello A wet nurse (for that is what Hera was in all tellings of the story) created the Milky Way when her divine milk sprayed across the heavens. Today’s...
Eat This Newsletter 190: Inundated
Hello Feast or famine, in this newsletter as in life. Even after judicious culling of the crooked and blemished ones, 13 items jostle for attention. Russia...
