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

October 12, 2026 • 27 mins
17th century Fritos, and lots more besides.
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Growers in the Pacific Northwest have been at the forefront of an explosion in the popularity and availability of radicchio. A new book tells the story.
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September 14, 2026 • 31 mins
Picky eaters seem to be biologically determined, but nothing could be further from the truth. They are not born, they are made, with the best of intentions.
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August 31, 2026 • 32 mins
Using microbes to ferment food is probably the oldest technique to make fresh food last longer, taste better and be better for us.
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June 15, 2026 • 25 mins
There have been all sorts of explanations for why tomatoes took so long to be accepted in England, most of them calling on superstition and stupidity. The truth is more down to earth.
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June 1, 2026 • 20 mins
Sweden offers some lessons on meals better for the health of pupils and the planet
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The hipster barista and the Chinese-owned bar both shed light on the changing nature of Italian coffee culture.
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May 4, 2026 • 24 mins
Abderrahim Ouarghidi was born and raised in Morocco, but until the day he and his wife Bronwen Powell found them during fieldwork, he had never seen collard greens there.
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April 20, 2026 • 22 mins
“Food has long served as an instrument of statecraft. Yet agricultural economics typically ... neglects security externalities.”
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April 6, 2026 • 25 mins
A six-year journey to learn about, document and share artisanal cheese-making around the world.
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March 23, 2026 • 14 mins
Old-fashioned oils rely on up-to-date equipment and the skill of the miller
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Today, a bigger problem than fraud is transportation and storage.
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February 23, 2026 • 34 mins
“You are more likely to find the raw ingredients for a better future for the food system at the Waffle House than you are at your local farmers’ market.”
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February 9, 2026 • 28 mins
The freedom Italian prisoners enjoy around food came as a shock
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December 29, 2025 • 23 mins
This is a way also to say “I’m a subject” in a place that tries to transform me into an object. I’m a subject. As a subject, I want to eat what I want today.
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December 15, 2025 • 19 mins
Poor people need money and they know what to spend it on
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December 1, 2025
In 2005, Luisa Weiss launched The Wednesday Chef, an early food blog. Today she has three books to her credit and continues to write about food.
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November 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Selection had nothing to do with transforming grass into wheat, or any other aspect of domestication.
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November 4, 2025 • 27 mins
Anti-communists sent food and medical assistance. Communist sympathisers sent tractors. And both countries had much to learn from the other.
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October 20, 2025 • 14 mins
The after-hours dish that conquered Ireland and the Irish everywhere.
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