Using food to explore all manner of topics, from agriculture to zoology. In Eat This Podcast, Jeremy Cherfas tries to go beyond the obvious to see how the food we eat influences and is influenced by history, archaeology, trade, chemistry, economics, geography, evolution, religion -- you get the picture. We don't do recipes, except when we do, or restaurant reviews, ditto. We do offer an eclectic smorgasbord of tasty topics. Twice nominated for a James Beard Award.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 17 hours 13 minutes
In search of tomato gold
Organic growers and breeders in Europe are preparing to take advantage of their new freedom to sow biodiversity
Mothers and Milk
How can the simple and vital connection between mother and baby possibly be considered shameful?
Fad diets
The average American starts in on a fad diet four times a year. A quarter give up after two weeks. What are they hoping for?
Empire and grain
The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today.
Grain and finance
Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.
Persephone’s secret
Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about?
Peanuts, Senegal and Slavery
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
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
New studies make sense of tomato’s transformation from teeny-fruited weed to diversity diva.