Eat This Podcast

By Jeremy Cherfas

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Using food to explore all manner of topics, from agriculture to zoology. Eat This Podcast 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.

Episode Date
Better Diets for All
Dec 09, 2024
Bennett’s Law
Nov 25, 2024
The Cost of a Healthy Diet
Nov 11, 2024
Anchovies Part 2
Oct 28, 2024
Anchovies Part I
Oct 14, 2024
Crunch Time: Insects Are Not Going to Save Us
Sep 30, 2024
Olives Reborn in the Salento
Sep 16, 2024
Avocado Anxiety: how to choose what to eat
Sep 02, 2024
Palatable is not Potable
Jun 17, 2024
Women Butchers
Jun 03, 2024
Leftovers Through History
May 13, 2024
What is Chametz?
Apr 29, 2024
Passover and Easter Revisited
Apr 15, 2024
Malta Besieged & Black-market Intrigues
Apr 01, 2024
The Case for Folic Acid Fortification
Mar 18, 2024
Anthony Mongiello, Inventor of the Stuffed Crust Pizza
Mar 04, 2024
Prehistoric cooking pots
Feb 19, 2024
The Invention of Baby Food
Feb 05, 2024
Black Stoneflower: A unique Indian spice
Dec 18, 2023
A New Story for Maize Domestication
Dec 04, 2023
Honey and Adulteration
Nov 13, 2023
Fat, Sugar, Salt
Oct 30, 2023
Jewish Food in Rome
Oct 16, 2023
Small Dairy
Oct 02, 2023
Food Riots in England
Sep 18, 2023
Milk is not a Superfood
Sep 04, 2023
Pomegranates & Artichokes
Jun 05, 2023
Why Did the Artist Cross the Chicken?
May 22, 2023
Feeding the People in Wartime Britain
May 08, 2023
What is Wrong with Biofortification
Apr 24, 2023
Making Mr Song’s Cheese
Apr 10, 2023
What Price Chicken Wings?
Mar 27, 2023
Patrik Johansson, the Butter Viking
Mar 13, 2023
Food Security in Egypt
Feb 06, 2023
Fully Tested Tuna
Jan 23, 2023
Biodiversity at Liberty
Jan 09, 2023
Feed Your Baby Like a Fascist
Dec 24, 2022
Some thoughts on markets and such
Dec 12, 2022
A Restaurant’s Reckoning
Nov 28, 2022
How to be a good host and a good guest
Nov 14, 2022
Feeding children well
Oct 31, 2022
In search of tomato gold
Oct 17, 2022
Mothers and Milk
Oct 03, 2022
Fad diets
Sep 20, 2022
Empire and grain
Jul 04, 2022
Grain and finance
Jun 27, 2022
Grain and transport
Jun 20, 2022
Persephone’s secret
Jun 13, 2022
Peanuts, Senegal and Slavery
May 16, 2022
Garum: Rome’s new library and museum of food
May 02, 2022
Tomatoes: domestication and diversity
Apr 18, 2022
Aaron Vallance — 1dish4theroad
Apr 04, 2022
Yes, we have no plantains
Mar 14, 2022
Food Philosophy
Feb 21, 2022
Unconditional cash to improve nutrition
Feb 07, 2022
Ten thousand years of yoghurt
Jan 24, 2022
High Art
Dec 20, 2021
A visit to an ancient Roman bakery
Dec 06, 2021
The true history of the potato in Europe
Nov 15, 2021
Rachel Roddy: An A–Z of Pasta
Oct 25, 2021
Midnight’s chicken: Indian food evolution
Oct 11, 2021
Sushi
Sep 27, 2021
Italian coffee: a temporary triangle
Sep 13, 2021
Food in post-independence India
Jun 21, 2021
The original global food system
Jun 07, 2021
Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?
May 24, 2021
A very modern spice merchant
May 10, 2021
Coffea stenophylla tastes terrific
Apr 26, 2021
The Great Re-Think: What is agriculture for, really?
Apr 12, 2021
What is the value of functional foods?
Mar 29, 2021
Naomi Duguid: Exploring the World through Food
Mar 15, 2021
The cost is too damn high
Mar 01, 2021
Still ticking
Feb 15, 2021
The quest to conserve rare breeds
Feb 01, 2021
The International Year of Fruits and Vegetables
Jan 18, 2021
Oh, poop
Dec 14, 2020
How the Brits became a nation of tea drinkers
Nov 30, 2020
Where did the chicken cross the road?
Nov 16, 2020
A Blissful Feast
Nov 01, 2020
Whole grain labels sow confusion
Oct 19, 2020
Coffee leaf rust is bad news
Oct 05, 2020
Carême at home in New Zealand
Sep 21, 2020
How the chilli pepper conquered China
Sep 07, 2020
It’s coffee, but not as we know it
Jun 29, 2020
Alexis Soyer
Jun 15, 2020
Questions of Taste
Jun 01, 2020
You are what you drink
May 11, 2020
Disputations about taste
Apr 27, 2020
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
Apr 13, 2020
Russian Food: Old and New
Mar 30, 2020
The book of the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food
Mar 16, 2020
Orange-fleshed sweet potato to feed hidden hunger
Mar 02, 2020
Another cup of coffee culture
Feb 17, 2020
Coffee culture in Italy and England
Feb 03, 2020
Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer
Jan 20, 2020
Cow sharing in the European Alps
Dec 23, 2019
Pasta Grannies
Dec 09, 2019
Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique
Nov 25, 2019
How capuchin monkeys learn about food
Nov 11, 2019
Fifty ways to cook a carrot
Oct 21, 2019
Porridge
Oct 07, 2019
Radish redux
Sep 23, 2019
When in Rome
Sep 09, 2019
A sweet sour story
Aug 26, 2019
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, or
Aug 12, 2019
Housekeeping
May 13, 2019
Eating Alone
Apr 29, 2019
Celebrating Passover and Easter
Apr 15, 2019
A historian of bread on the history of bread
Apr 01, 2019
Prehistoric food globalisation
Mar 18, 2019
We need to talk about meat
Mar 04, 2019
Better baking through chemistry
Feb 18, 2019
Moxie Bread, Louisville, CO
Feb 04, 2019
Food and diversity in Laos
Jan 21, 2019
Facts about Champagne: Part 2
Dec 31, 2018
Facts about Champagne: Part 1
Dec 24, 2018
Good things from Nürnberg
Dec 10, 2018
Is that a pickle …
Nov 26, 2018
What a bunch of turkeys
Nov 21, 2018
Just that which is deserved
Nov 12, 2018
A communal oven in Christchurch, New Zealand
Oct 29, 2018
Food, power, pubs and politics in Ireland
Oct 15, 2018
Making sense of modern recipes
Oct 01, 2018
Food in prison
Sep 17, 2018
Winding Down
Aug 31, 2018
A Perennial Dream
Aug 30, 2018
It’s a Hard Grain
Aug 29, 2018
Anything but Grim
Aug 28, 2018
Bread and Political Circuses
Aug 27, 2018
Wheats and Measures
Aug 26, 2018
Tradition!
Aug 25, 2018
Slow, but Exceedingly Fine
Aug 24, 2018
Brown v. White
Aug 23, 2018
Sourdough by Any Name
Aug 22, 2018
Breaking Bread
Aug 21, 2018
Back to Basics
Aug 20, 2018
The Bread that Ate the World
Aug 19, 2018
Allied forever
Aug 18, 2018
Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Aug 17, 2018
Water and Power
Aug 16, 2018
Risen
Aug 15, 2018
The daily grind
Aug 14, 2018
Bread from the Dead
Aug 13, 2018
The inside story
Aug 12, 2018
It’s not natural
Aug 11, 2018
Dwarf wheat: On the shoulders of a giant
Aug 10, 2018
Red Fife
Aug 09, 2018
Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov
Aug 08, 2018
Bake like an Egyptian
Aug 07, 2018
Hulled wheats
Aug 06, 2018
At last: agriculture
Aug 05, 2018
What exactly is wheat?
Aug 04, 2018
Crumbs; the oldest bread
Aug 03, 2018
Boil in the Bag
Aug 02, 2018
The Abundance of Nature
Aug 01, 2018
Our Daily Bread 00
Jul 26, 2018
Food as Power
May 28, 2018
Food safety and industry concentration
May 14, 2018
Who owns whom in the food industry
Apr 30, 2018
Whatever happened to British veal?
Apr 16, 2018
Hoptopia
Apr 02, 2018
A visit to Hummustown
Mar 19, 2018
Barges and bread
Mar 05, 2018
The Hamlet Fire
Feb 19, 2018
From little seeds …
Feb 05, 2018
Bread as it ought to be
Jan 22, 2018
Little bits of 2017: Part IV
Jan 08, 2018
Little bits of 2017: Part III
Jan 01, 2018
Little bits of 2017: Part II
Dec 25, 2017
Little bits of 2017: Part I
Dec 18, 2017
Feeding people is easy
Dec 04, 2017
A cheese place
Nov 20, 2017
Rethinking the folk history of American agriculture
Nov 06, 2017
Ireland’s apple collection
Oct 23, 2017
Antibiotics and agriculture
Oct 09, 2017
1000 days of noodle soup
Sep 11, 2017
Pushing good coffee
Aug 30, 2017
It’s putrid, it’s paleo, and it’s good for you
Aug 14, 2017
Back to the future for the wheat of tomorrow
Jul 31, 2017
Getting to know the cinta senese on its home turf
Jul 17, 2017
A brief survey of the food of Corfu
Jul 03, 2017
Changing Global Diets: the website
Apr 24, 2017
Australia: where healthier diets are cheaper …
Apr 10, 2017
Mistaken about mayonnaise — and many other foods
Mar 27, 2017
A computer learns about ingredients and recipes
Mar 13, 2017
How much does a nutritious diet cost?
Feb 27, 2017
Food and status
Feb 13, 2017
In praise of meat, milk and eggs
Feb 01, 2017
India’s bread landscape and my plans here
Jan 16, 2017
Long live the Carolina African Runner
Jan 09, 2017
A deep dive into cucurbit names
Dec 31, 2016
The Great Epping Sausage Scandal
Dec 26, 2016
We need to talk about diets
Dec 13, 2016
The Culinary Breeding Network
Nov 28, 2016
Foie gras
Nov 14, 2016
Wine and cheese
Oct 31, 2016
English sausages
Oct 17, 2016
Whiskynomics
Oct 03, 2016
A far from dismal scientist
Sep 19, 2016
When is a zucchini not a zucchini?
Sep 05, 2016
Small-scale spirits
Aug 22, 2016
A visit to Elkstone Farm in Colorado
Aug 08, 2016
Xylella is here and it could be dangerous
Jul 25, 2016
How the Irish created the great wines of Bordeaux (and elsewhere)
Jul 11, 2016
Back to the mountains of Pamir
Jun 27, 2016
Sweetness and light
Jun 13, 2016
The True Father of the First Green Revolution
May 30, 2016
A brief history of Irish butter
May 16, 2016
Where’s the latest episode?
May 09, 2016
It is OK to eat quinoa
Apr 18, 2016
Welcome to the Wonderbag
Apr 04, 2016
The evolution of food culture in Mali
Mar 21, 2016
Crackers about Indonesian food
Mar 07, 2016
Chewing the fat about chewing the fat
Feb 22, 2016
The haybox through history
Feb 08, 2016
An English woman’s take on Italian cooking
Feb 01, 2016
Egyptian street food in London
Jan 25, 2016
Tulip bulb soup
Jan 05, 2016
An experiment in sound and taste
Dec 21, 2015
Aquae Urbis Romae
Dec 07, 2015
How to measure what farms produce
Nov 23, 2015
The Dark Ages were a time of prosperity
Nov 10, 2015
Going further than food miles
Oct 26, 2015
Fifth quarter: Rachel Roddy’s Rome
Oct 12, 2015
Just Mayo and justice
Sep 28, 2015
A year of cooking almost everything from scratch
Sep 14, 2015
The military-culinary complex
Aug 31, 2015
100% food insecure: poor people in a rich country
Aug 17, 2015
Larder inessentials
Jul 20, 2015
Culture and agriculture in the Pamirs
Jul 06, 2015
How to eat well in Italy
Jun 22, 2015
These aren’t the pests you’re looking for
Jun 08, 2015
Lead poisoning of hunters and game
May 18, 2015
Enjoying life on a rather restricted regimen
May 04, 2015
Grass-fed beef
Apr 20, 2015
A second helping of citrus in Italy
Apr 06, 2015
A visit to Koshari Street
Mar 23, 2015
An Italian wine education
Mar 09, 2015
A little about allotments
Feb 23, 2015
Food, hunger and conflict
Feb 09, 2015
Agricultural foundations
Jan 26, 2015
Future of agriculture
Jan 20, 2015
Pasta laid bare
Jan 12, 2015
Cheese in aspic
Jan 05, 2015
Bread remembered
Dec 29, 2014
Garibaldi and citrus in Italy
Dec 22, 2014
Another helping of turkey
Dec 15, 2014
A partial history of the turkey
Dec 01, 2014
Talking turkey
Nov 27, 2014
The festa dell’uva of the 1930s
Nov 17, 2014
Looking forward to the festa dell’uva
Nov 10, 2014
Exploring Kazakhstan’s apple forests
Nov 04, 2014
Bears and apples
Oct 27, 2014
A novel approach to food security
Oct 20, 2014
Citrus in Italy
Oct 06, 2014
What’s cooking in Tasmania?
Sep 22, 2014
Garum brought up to date
Sep 08, 2014
Rice from Randall’s Island, New York
Aug 25, 2014
Japanese food through Canadian eyes
Aug 11, 2014
Who invented dried pasta?
Jul 29, 2014
Vermont and the taste of place
Jul 14, 2014
What makes Parmigiano-Reggiano Parmigiano-Reggiano?
Jun 30, 2014
Bones and the Mongol diet
Jun 16, 2014
Edible aroids
May 26, 2014
Food tours and cooking classes
May 12, 2014
Rambling on my mind
Apr 28, 2014
Food prices and social unrest
Apr 14, 2014
The Global Standard Diet
Mar 31, 2014
Food and finance
Mar 17, 2014
Culture and Cuisine in Russia & Eastern Europe
Mar 03, 2014
Pasta
Feb 17, 2014
Food — and bombs — in Laos
Feb 03, 2014
Baking bread: getting big and getting out
Jan 20, 2014
A tasting menu
Jan 13, 2014
Fermentation revisited
Dec 18, 2013
Hunger and malnutrition
Dec 02, 2013
Jam tomorrow?
Nov 18, 2013
Backpackers and their food
Nov 04, 2013
Pecans and history
Oct 21, 2013
Why save seeds?
Oct 07, 2013
How to bake bread in a microwave oven
Sep 23, 2013
Crispy crunchy mega-munchy
Sep 09, 2013
Backyard vegetable breeding
Aug 26, 2013
Industrial strength craft beer
Aug 12, 2013
Knives: the new bling
Jul 29, 2013
What’s the beef with frozen meat?
Jul 15, 2013
Early agriculture in eastern North America
Jun 24, 2013
Sugar and salt: Industrial is best
Jun 10, 2013
Spam: a special edition
Jun 06, 2013
Seed Law
May 27, 2013
Potatoes are (almost) perfect
May 13, 2013
Neanderthal Diets
Apr 29, 2013
OZ97a — a great British hop
Apr 15, 2013
Do good chocolate
Apr 01, 2013
Air-cured sausages
Mar 18, 2013
Bog Butter
Mar 13, 2013