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.
https://www.eatthispodcast.com
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 17 hours 41 minutes
Tomatoes: domestication and diversity
New studies make sense of tomato’s transformation from teeny-fruited weed to diversity diva.
Aaron Vallance — 1dish4theroad
A doctor in London chronicles his eating adventures through fact and fiction
Food Philosophy
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
Giving people cash improves dietary diversity and child growth
Ten thousand years of yoghurt
Yoghurt is good for you, no doubt about that, although it probably will not confer eternal life.
High Art
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
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
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
Rachel Roddy had no intention of producing an encyclopaedia of pasta. Her book is more informative than that, and more readable.