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

March 9, 2026 28 mins
Today, a bigger problem than fraud is transportation and storage.
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“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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October 5, 2025 19 mins
In the end we can never know what people in the past tasted in their food, but a new method aims to come closer.
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September 22, 2025 28 mins
A new book shares more information about salt and ways to use it than you can imagine
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September 8, 2025 23 mins
“You yourself like caribou meat, and what are these maggots but live caribou meat? They taste just the same as the meat and are refreshing to the mouth.”
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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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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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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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