Eat This Podcast
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Using food to explore all manner of topics, from agriculture to zoology. In Eat This Podcast, Jeremy Cherfas 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. Twice nominated for a James Beard Award.
- Website
- http://www.eatthispodcast.com
- Description
- 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.
- Support
- Support via Patreon
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-09-04 14:48
- last episode published
- 2023-09-04 11:00
- publication frequency
- 14.05 days
- Contributors
- Jeremy Cherfas
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 274
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Food Natural Sciences History Science & Medicine Arts
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Episodes
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| 2023-09-04 | The first celebrity doctor's fad diet is still going strong today, 300 years later, and it has a lot to answer for. |
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| 2023-06-05 | “It is about migrations: of ingredients, of recipes, of stories — but most importantly of the people who make them.” |
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| 2023-05-22 | Accumulating the genetic diversity of birds around the world in a population of truly cosmopolitan chickens |
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| 2023-05-08 | Once upon a time, government made it possible for people to get a good meal at a reasonable price. |
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| 2023-04-24 | Yields are generally lower than those of unfortified varieties and there’s little evidence it works. Biofortification is a waste of land and money. |
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| 2023-04-10 | The standard story is that ethnic Chinese don’t eat cheese or drink milk because they are lactose intolerant. They do, but it’s complicated |
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| 2023-03-27 | A chicken has two wings, two legs, two breasts; how does the market cope when all people want is wings? |
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| 2023-03-13 | Patrik Johansson blends ancient knowledge and modern science to craft exquisite butter: hand-made, intensely flavourful and scarce. |
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| 2023-02-06 | The price of subsidised bread in Egypt has not changed in decades, though the bread shrunk. That remains a huge challenge to security, for the government and the people. |
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| 2023-01-23 | One tin of tuna may contain 10 times more mercury than another, and there’s no way to tell them apart. |
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