Eat This Podcast

Naomi Duguid: Exploring the World through Food 15.03.2021 32:51 ↓

There may not be a recipe, but there’s always someone sitting behind your shoulder going tsk, tsk, tsk.

The cost is too damn high 01.03.2021 20:32 ↓

Three billion people couldn’t afford a healthy diet even if they wanted to.

Still ticking 15.02.2021 22:50 ↓

These days, population is barely considered as a factor in food security. That doesn’t mean the problem is solved.

The quest to conserve rare breeds 01.02.2021 26:07 ↓

Using land that could be used to feed people to feed animals is a terrible waste, but for today’s modern breeds it is absolutely essential.

The International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 18.01.2021 14:59 ↓

Emojipedia understands: 🍅 is both a fruit and a vegetable

Oh, poop 14.12.2020 24:03 ↓

Is our excrement simply a waste product, to be dumped out of sight and out of mind? Or is it a valuable resource that we squander at our peril?

How the Brits became a nation of tea drinkers 30.11.2020 28:57 ↓

Persuading people to drink tea from the subcontinent more or less created the modern propaganda machine

Where did the chicken cross the road? 16.11.2020 22:41 ↓

The DNA of chickens, sheep and cattle tells slightly different stories about their domestication

A Blissful Feast 01.11.2020 22:24 ↓

Her aunt’s gnocchi were enough to set Teresa Lust on a long and roundabout journey to learn more about Italian and Italian food.

Whole grain labels sow confusion 19.10.2020 23:29 ↓

We know what whole grain means. Whole grain food? Not so much.

Coffee leaf rust is bad news 05.10.2020 28:28 ↓

Coffee leaf rust is bad, but at least in the short term it may not be the threat you think it is

Carême at home in New Zealand 21.09.2020 18:02 ↓

Food for settlers in New Zealand used to be mutton, mutton, mutton and potatoes or potatoes. Not any more.

How the chilli pepper conquered China 07.09.2020 30:02 ↓

Chilli peppers took a few years to reach China after their initial encounter with Westerners, but rapidly became a very hot item.

It’s coffee, but not as we know it 29.06.2020 20:57 ↓

In Sierra Leone, a hunt for long lost species of coffee succeeds

Alexis Soyer 15.06.2020 18:04 ↓

A brief look at the life of one of the first celebrity chefs

Questions of Taste 01.06.2020 20:35 ↓

Are there any universals about more complex kinds of gustatory taste? And how do we learn to talk about taste?

You are what you drink 11.05.2020 21:10 ↓

Robert Walpole — like all great politicians — understood how to use his tipple to send a signal

Disputations about taste 27.04.2020 16:06 ↓

I know taste is entirely subjective. But I’m also willing to think about good taste and bad taste and even to use that as part of a value judgement. How about you?

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World 13.04.2020 29:38 ↓

Norman Borlaug gave birth to the Green Revolution, with little thought for the unintended consequences of his work.

Russian Food: Old and New 30.03.2020 27:34 ↓

Beyond the North Wind, the true heart of Russian Food

The book of the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food 16.03.2020 20:16 ↓

A young Russian woman blogs her way through the only cookbook her grandmother knew -- and gets her own book out of it

Orange-fleshed sweet potato to feed hidden hunger 02.03.2020 27:33 ↓

A food people don't like, and don't even know they need, turns their lives around

Another cup of coffee culture 17.02.2020 16:22 ↓

It took more than a hundred years, but eventually the United States too developed a recognisable coffee culture.

Coffee culture in Italy and England 03.02.2020 29:15 ↓

Espresso is the canonical coffee of Italy, even though the original espresso was something entirely different. How did espresso happen? And what happened when it got to England?

Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer 20.01.2020 9:39 ↓

With a bag of porridge oats in my baggage, I set off for Georgetown University and a date with science