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

Pellagra

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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Quinoa in the Po Valley

June 9, 2025 • 17 mins
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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Eat This Gets Advice

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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Puglia

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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The Paradox of Plenty

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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Farming’s Overlords

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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Quinoa’s rise and fall

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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Forbidden: Jews and the Pig

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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Food facts are not the answer to fear of foods

February 17, 2025 • 29 mins
“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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Food, folklore and St Brigid

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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Sensual, Salty, and a Little Bit Spicy

December 23, 2024 • 17 mins
Gilda; how Rita Hayworth might have inspired the original anchovy-on-a-toothpick
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Better Diets for All

December 9, 2024 • 27 mins
“In a way, the multinational food industry is providing solutions for women.”
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Bennett’s Law

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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The Cost of a Healthy Diet

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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Anchovies Part 2

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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Anchovies Part I

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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Crunch Time: Insects Are Not Going to Save Us

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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Olives Reborn in the Salento

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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Avocado Anxiety: how to choose what to eat

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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Palatable is not Potable

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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