Eat This Podcast

Eat This Podcast

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.

Episodes

June 23, 2025 40 mins
“There was no treatment for pellagra, aside from an improved diet, and ... we can’t improve the peasants’ diet. That’s not our job. We’re doctors.”
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I didn’t realise, when I booked a brief holiday in the Po Delta, that I would be staying at the heart of the Italian quinoa supply chain
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May 26, 2025 28 mins
Tara Schmidt, lead dietitian for the Mayo Clinic Diet, shares her thoughts on diet, diets and dietary advice
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May 12, 2025 26 mins
In the past few decades Puglia has improved its food, wine and olive oil almost beyond recognition
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April 28, 2025 24 mins
For much of the world, food has never been as abundant or as inexpensive as it is now, but at what cost?
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April 14, 2025 31 mins
Size and market concentration lock farmers onto a technological treadmill that does nobody any good, excpet for the giant corporations and their shareholders
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March 17, 2025 29 mins
A new book looks beyond the hype to chronicle the effect of an unsustainable boom on the entire quinoa trade in Peru
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March 3, 2025 30 mins
“The more that the pig comes to signify Jewish identity, the more it comes to signify Christian identity, and vice versa.”
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“What kind of food system do we want for the future? What kind of questions should we be asking? Whose questions matter? What kind of questions matter and what kind of expertise is considered relevant to the question of what the future of food should be like?”
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February 3, 2025 17 mins
“On the eve of a quarter day, the time is liminal, so there’s kind of a thinning of the space between the real world and the other world.”
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December 23, 2024 17 mins
Gilda; how Rita Hayworth might have inspired the original anchovy-on-a-toothpick
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December 9, 2024 27 mins
“In a way, the multinational food industry is providing solutions for women.”
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November 25, 2024 26 mins
What foods do poor people buy when they have a bit more money? What you might expect, but not as much of it as you might expect.
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November 11, 2024 30 mins
“Is it because of high prices? Is it because of low incomes? Or is it because ... you can’t see, taste, or smell the nutritional composition of food?”
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October 28, 2024 23 mins
”You know, anchovies are in our blood. My family’s been eating them for 500 years.” Er, no. Not really.
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October 14, 2024 23 mins
To some, they’re stinky little fish in a tin can. To others, they’re a deep hit of umami delight that honour the work of women.
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September 30, 2024 23 mins
”Insect farming mostly adds an inefficient and expensive layer to the food system we already have.”
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September 16, 2024 24 mins
The diease that has already killed 11 million olive trees in the south of Puglia might be a blessing in disguise
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September 2, 2024 24 mins
Louise Gray’s new book dives deep into the trade-offs that accompany every food choice we make, where nothing is as simple as it seems.
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June 17, 2024 26 mins
Why are some people tap-water hesitant and what do we expect water to taste like anyway?
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