Eat This Podcast

Cow sharing in the European Alps 23.12.2019 18:42 ↓

Unlike car sharing, when you buy a share in a cow, you are not free to drive her wherever you want. So what do you get?

Pasta Grannies 09.12.2019 24:50 ↓

Vicky Bennison set out to record Italian grannies making pasta and along the way created terrifically watchable videos

Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique 25.11.2019 18:21 ↓

Mozambique used to be the world's largest supplier of cashew nuts. Then along came the World Bank, to help.

How capuchin monkeys learn about food 11.11.2019 31:14 ↓

Capuchin monkeys are resourceful and smart, which helps them to select a good diet from all the potential food around them.

Fifty ways to cook a carrot 21.10.2019 20:05 ↓

You can't judge a book by its cover. 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot is not really about carrots.

Porridge 07.10.2019 21:03 ↓

How did porridge go from a fine breakfast food, albeit one that's easily abused, to the stuff of foodie dreams?

Radish redux 23.09.2019 16:49 ↓

"All the intrigue of a murder mystery and all the painstaking, arduous pursuit of an archeological dig." For a radish.

When in Rome 09.09.2019 24:49 ↓

Alfredo sauce, made famous in the 1920s, dates back to at least 1390. That, and other surprises of food in the Eternal City.

A sweet sour story 26.08.2019 16:06 ↓

A downturn in the house-building business set Maurice Gilbert at Ballyhoura Artisan Food Park on the road to award-winning apple juices.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold, or 12.08.2019 24:26 ↓

Ignorance, paranoia and greed have damaged the olives of the Salento almost beyond recognition.

Housekeeping 13.05.2019 3:29 ↓

We all deserve a break from time to time.

Eating Alone 29.04.2019 18:15 ↓

Some people hate eating alone, others love it, but we all have to do it at times.

Celebrating Passover and Easter 15.04.2019 34:40 ↓

From the first last supper to the resurrection roll.

A historian of bread on the history of bread 01.04.2019 25:32 ↓

William Rubel doesn't think there is good bread or bad bread, but he knows what he likes.

Prehistoric food globalisation 18.03.2019 20:58 ↓

The first farmers and their crops moved much further, much earlier, than previously thought. As they did so they grew the confidence, the resources and the knowledge to move up into the mountains and down into the river basins.

We need to talk about meat 04.03.2019 27:08 ↓

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. And now, meat is central to nutrition, sustainability, health and capitalism. What does meat mean?

Better baking through chemistry 18.02.2019 27:09 ↓

Fake news. A Senate bought and paid for. Newspapers printing press releases verbatim. And all more than 100 years ago.

Moxie Bread, Louisville, CO 04.02.2019 27:46 ↓

Insights into building and running a very successful small bakery, plus the "super colloidal suspension of fat and sugar" that is a specialty of the house.

Food and diversity in Laos 21.01.2019 19:43 ↓

The staggering agricultural biodiversity that is such an important aspect of Lao food is on display at a new website.

Facts about Champagne: Part 2 31.12.2018 17:05 ↓

There's nothing new about persuading influencers to quaff your brand of bubbly

Facts about Champagne: Part 1 24.12.2018 27:47 ↓

From the all-seeing Dom Pérignon to the young bucks of London’s high society, champagne’s true history is absolutely intoxicating.

Good things from Nürnberg 10.12.2018 20:52 ↓

What makes the lebkuchen from Nürnberg so special?

Is that a pickle … 26.11.2018 23:47 ↓

Jan Davison has written Pickles: A Global History, the perfect accompaniment to her previous book, English Sausages.

What a bunch of turkeys 21.11.2018 3:43 ↓

Spaghetti Carbonara Day, read by the author. (I didn’t steal it; I set it free.)

Just that which is deserved 12.11.2018 21:58 ↓

Is dessert a pointless overindulgence, or perhaps the most interesting and creative part of a good meal out? I know what I think.