Eat This Podcast

Grain and finance 27.06.2022 29:10 ↓

Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.

Grain and transport 20.06.2022 30:25 ↓

Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world

Persephone’s secret 13.06.2022 8:19 ↓

Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about?

Peanuts, Senegal and Slavery 16.05.2022 19:06 ↓

France abolished slavery in 1815 but the practice continued long after that in its west African enclaves

Garum: Rome’s new library and museum of food 02.05.2022 22:44 ↓

On the slopes of the Palatine Hill, supposedly on the site where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, a new food museum.

Tomatoes: domestication and diversity 18.04.2022 18:17 ↓

New studies make sense of tomato’s transformation from teeny-fruited weed to diversity diva.

Aaron Vallance — 1dish4theroad 04.04.2022 26:18 ↓

A doctor in London chronicles his eating adventures through fact and fiction

Yes, we have no plantains 14.03.2022 16:02 ↓

What you call a plantain is probably an accident of history

Food Philosophy 21.02.2022 31:00 ↓

Discussions about food often “bump up against philosophy” according to an actual philosopher, whose book helped me to think more clearly about food.

Unconditional cash to improve nutrition 07.02.2022 18:11 ↓

Giving people cash improves dietary diversity and child growth

Ten thousand years of yoghurt 24.01.2022 23:56 ↓

Yoghurt is good for you, no doubt about that, although it probably will not confer eternal life.

High Art 20.12.2021 16:07 ↓

As an artist, looking down on Google Earth, Mishka Henner saw things that made him wonder — and that have the power to make all of us think, a bit.

A visit to an ancient Roman bakery 06.12.2021 26:39 ↓

Farrell Monaco has studied, and brought back to life, the canonical bread of Ancient Rome. Now she brings an ancient bakery back to life.

The true history of the potato in Europe 15.11.2021 24:26 ↓

It may not contain wily aristocrats or superstitious peasants, but the true history of the potato is much more interesting.

Rachel Roddy: An A–Z of Pasta 25.10.2021 23:46 ↓

Rachel Roddy had no intention of producing an encyclopaedia of pasta. Her book is more informative than that, and more readable.

Midnight’s chicken: Indian food evolution 11.10.2021 21:04 ↓

A dish that is today an icon of Indian food dates back only to 1947, using an ingredient that became widespread only in the 1920s

Sushi 27.09.2021 25:29 ↓

The story of perhaps the greatest transformation in the history of food and how it continues today

Italian coffee: a temporary triangle 13.09.2021 22:09 ↓

"The cups might break, but the images recycle endlessly."

Food in post-independence India 21.06.2021 30:48 ↓

India gained independence in 1947 with nationalist politicians promising food for all and an end to the rapacious imperial administration. What happened next?

The original global food system 07.06.2021 28:27 ↓

Diet for a Large Planet shows how the world is still living with free trade policies from the 19th century

Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? 24.05.2021 28:31 ↓

Jess Fanzo takes a close look at what’s wrong with global food systems and how it might be possible to change them.

A very modern spice merchant 10.05.2021 25:56 ↓

Green Saffron is a new kind of spice merchant, that cares as much about how its spices are grown as their taste.

Coffea stenophylla tastes terrific 26.04.2021 18:58 ↓

Coffee that tastes of light black tea — a good thing — and is able to cope with warmer climates.

The Great Re-Think: What is agriculture for, really? 12.04.2021 27:36 ↓

Skill and craft over automation, complexity over simplicity, and diversity over monoculture

What is the value of functional foods? 29.03.2021 24:55 ↓

There’s one group of people that functional foods and superfoods can definitely help: the people who grow them.