Episodes 300
Avg. Duration 20m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (57)
Since Feb 2014
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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69%
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About 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.

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Recent Episodes

More Sustainable School Meals

Jun 01, 2026 20m

Eating habits are formed young and can last a lifetime, which suggests that school meals could be an excellent place to address nutrition and sustainability. Sweden, with universal free school meals…

Hipster Baristas and Chinese Espresso

May 18, 2026 31m

The hipster barista has been around for a while, not quite serving but definitely enabling people to enjoy a wide variety of caffeinated beverages. And he was clearly part of the zeitgeist in 2019,…

Collards: A Moroccan Mystery

May 04, 2026 24m

Collard greens are a kind of cabbage that grows as loose leaves rather than forming a tight head. They’re eaten widely in parts of Europe and in East Africa, but perhaps most strongly associated with…

Geopolitics, Food, and Agriculture

Apr 20, 2026 22m

“Food has long served as an instrument of statecraft,” write the authors of a new paper, and it isn’t hard to find examples of food weaponised in international relations and between factions in a…

In Search of the Real Cheeses

Apr 06, 2026 25m

Trevor Warmedahl worked in commercial cheese operations large and small in the USA for about 10 years, becoming increasingly disenchanted with the uniformity of the final products and their…

Old Modern Olive Oil in Provence

Mar 23, 2026 14m

In the previous episode, Carl Ipsen explained how the EU regulations for extra-virgin olive oil include tasting notes, and that if an oil has any of the forbidden flavours, it cannot be classified as…

The unstoppable rise of extra virgin olive oil

Mar 09, 2026 28m

Carl IpsenExtra virgin olive oil, as a formal classification, owes its existence to the disastrous state of Italian olive oil in the 1950s. At that time, esterification, a chemical process designed…

The Food System Is Not Broken

Feb 23, 2026 34m

Jan Dutkiewicz (left) and Gabriel Rosenberg A lot of people who care about these things will tell you that the food system is broken. Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg insist that it is not. Bits…

Food Notes from an American Prison

Feb 09, 2026 28m

Bird’s Eye View of United States Penitentiary Lewisburg, PA One of the things I found most interesting about the previous episode, Cooking in Maximum Security was that prisoners in Italy not only…

Cooking in Maximum Security

Dec 29, 2025 23m

Matteo GuidiAn extremely unlikely source (see note 3) tipped me off to the existence of Cooking in Maximum Security. In some respects, it is completely ordinary; a book of recipes — Starters, First…

Cash remains a most effective gift

Dec 15, 2025 19m

Miriam Laker Oketta, left, and Esnatt Gondwe Matekesa I’m proud to revisit an episode from 2022, in which two country directors of the charity Give Directly told me how cash transfers in Rwanda and…

A Berliner Speaks

Dec 01, 2025

Luisa WeissIt can be hard to remember the food blogs of yesteryear, when everyone knew everyone and the actual recipes were usually easy to find, unencumbered by endless cruft. Luisa Weiss discovered…

A Fresh Look at Domestication

Nov 17, 2025 31m

Robert Spengler IIISettled agriculture produced the food surpluses that enabled the development of civilisations. No wonder, then, that scholars have been keen to understand the origins of…

Revolutions are Born in Breadlines

Nov 04, 2025 27m

The famine in the Volga Region in the early 1920s was a humanitarian disaster, but it kick started about a decade of agricultural cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States.…

The Spice Bag

Oct 20, 2025 14m

In 2008, the legend goes, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. Nothing too fancy, but tasty enough that soon their friends wanted the same. One…

Revisiting Historical Recipes

Oct 05, 2025 19m

After you’ve found an historic recipe, sourced appropriate ingredients, figured out the maddeningly imprecise quantities, and grappled with instructions that are often little more than a reminder for…

The Miracle of Salt

Sep 22, 2025 28m

Naomi Duguid is a writer, home cook and photographer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a world traveller and has converted her experiences into a series of glorious books, part cookbook, part…

New Light on Neanderthal Diets

Sep 08, 2025 23m

The human remains at Neumark Nord, a Neanderthal site in Germany, are around 125,000 years old. Those at the Anthropology Research Facility (ARF) – aka the Body Farm – in Tennessee, a lot less. What…

Pellagra

Jun 23, 2025 40m

Dr Joseph GoldbergerPellagra — a terrible disease characterised by the four Ds: dermatitis, diarrhoea, dementia and death — was first noticed in northern Spain in 1735 and in Italy soon afterwards.…

Quinoa in the Po Valley

Jun 09, 2025 17m

Alessandro Biavati, chef. Quite by chance, I booked a brief cycling holiday at an agriturismo based on a farm that is home to Quin Italia, an enterprise that aims to be the first supply chain for…

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