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 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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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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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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