Eat This Podcast

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Talking about anything around food

A hand holding a packet of Red Sun sunflower seeds next to the very disappoint, very ordinary yellow sunflower that emerged from the seeds.
Cover artwork, A Victorian advertisement for a heated glasshouse, with a gardener tending a plant above a section labelled Hot Bed.
Cover art: Swedish children sit at a table eating the school lunch provided to every child for free.
Prevalence of obesity and overweight among adults in the USA and Italy from 1990 to 2022. The USA curve rises from 51% to 72%. The curve for Italy is effectively flat, from 46% to 49%
Cover art. A very dark espresso coffee in a glass cup, the better to see the essential cream floating on top, with coffee still emerging from the machine.
Cover artwork. Green, flat collard leaves are arranged around the stem, seen from above.
Trevor Warmedahl with the abomasum of a goat kid, a common source of rennet for artisanal cheesemaking.
A paper fan from Japan with a painting of a cucumber on it to improve its ability to collect the user.
Clusters of ripe, violet olives on a leafy branch.
A faked photo of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov among the seed drawers of the Institute of Applied Botany in St Petersburg
Cover artwork: fresh yellow-green olive oil emerging from the centrifuge and flowing down a chute.
A black and white photograph of a Waffle House late at night with a quote from the book superimposed in purple lettering. The quote reads ”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.”
Podcast cover artwork, an illustration from the cover of the book.
XKCD 2982 shows "How Water Filtration Works" an absurd flow from well water to faucet.
Cover artwork, a drawing by Mario Trudu from the book shows how to make Spaghettone Infinito by squeezing pasta dough from a small plastic bottle into a pot of boiling water.
Cover artwork, a detail from The Gift of the Magi by Hieronymus Bosch, showing a Black man wearing a crown and a bearded White man in a turban, both with golden gifts.
Cover art, a plate of pfannkuchen, covered with icing sugar, one of them sliced open with red jam or jelly oozing out of it.
Cover artwork. A Neolithic sickle with flint chips embedded in a wooden handle with bitumen or tar.
Cover artwork. A Russian stamp shows a heroic tractor and driver of 1924
The cost of a healthy diet in US currency
Cover art, with a close up of the contents of a spice bag, including chips, red and green peppers, onion and, presumably, bits of chicken
Cover artwork, with a detail from a 17th century Dutch still-life of a fruit pie.
A long hill of salt, glistening white under a cloudy gray sky, dwarfs two workers in front of it. The foreground shows the shallow lagoon in Trapani, Sicily, where the water evaporates to concentre the brine.
Cover artwork, a photograph of a reconstruction of a Neanderthal man standing in front of a painted background that shows a body of water and waves breaking. In his hand he seems to have a rabbit.
A bar chart showing changes in the availability of potato products in the US as snapshots from the 1980s, the 2000s and the 2020s. Fresh has declined by 20% while French fries have increased and are now the most popular form of potato.
A map showing a black line around the region in Emilia-Romana from which the milk for Parmigiano-Reggiano must come.
A fountain in Rome labelled Acqua non potabile, warning that the water is not drinkable.
An illustration of the constellation Virgo from a star atlas, showing a woman holding a sheaf of wheat in her left hand and a palm frond in her right.
A rigorous impact study has shown that orange-fleshed sweet potato can lead to impressive gains in child growth outcomes. Imagine the aggregate gains in health that could have been achieved if millions of households had actually been reached or the benefits that might have been unlocked had the drop in reach been detected early and prompted course correction. When monitoring systems lose touch with on-ground realities, we risk becoming locked into path-dependent decisions that delay learning, derail funding, and undermine the potential benefits these innovations are designed to deliver.
Incredible are the folly and perversity of a public that will leave unread writings of the noblest and rarest of minds, of all times and all countries, for the sake of reading the writings of commonplace persons which appear daily, and breed every year in countless numbers like flies; merely because these writings have been printed to-day and are still wet from the press. It would be better if they were thrown on one side and rejected the day they appeared, as they must be after the lapse of a few years. They will then afford material for laughter as illustrating the follies of a former time. It is because people will only read what is the newest instead of what is the best of all ages, that writers remain in the narrow circle of prevailing ideas, and that the age sinks deeper and deeper in its own mire.
Painting. A Mound of Butter, by Antoine Vollon. A sumptuous, golden mound of butter with a knife stuck into it, the cheesecloth around it unwrapped, and a couple of eggs, sit on a dark brown table against a dark background.
Portrait of Dr Joseph Goldberger of the US Public Health Service. He is a young white man with wavy hair and spectacles and gazes resolutely out of the frame. He is wearing a service uniform.
A string puppet called Muffin the Mule, a great favourite on children's TV in the UK in the 1940s and 50s. He is whispering in the ear of Annette Mills, his creator.
Overlapping slices of a ribbed red tomato laid out on a wooden board.
Wide view at the Agrilocanda Val Campotto. A line of trees stretches towards and barn and the horizon, with massed blue-grey clouds in the sky.
An advertisement for Norma’s Burger Bar on the back of a bus in Ravenna, Italy. The text reads “Fuck the diet. Eat burgers.”
A colourful spread of the many different kinds of foods that constitute a healthy diet, one that most people do not follow.
A graph of word frequency for dietitian (in red) and dietician (in blue) 1800-2022. Both start to increase in the 1890s, but both decline after 1942, rising again in about 1968. Dietitian is generally more frequent.
Flavia Giordano, holding her book and her Italian Greyhound, Carla. A young woman smiling at the camera, with dark hair tied in a headscarf and wearing a grey and white checked shirt. Behind her is a blue sky and a bluer sea.
Cover artwork, a large and somewhat menacing combine harvester cutting a field of wheat looms over the viewer.
The Jolly Green Giant reclining in front of tiny farmers, except he is red and has cloven hooves.
Cover artwork featuring a three-armed Cross of St Brigid made of brown rushes. The centre is a woven triangle with an arm of bound rushes emerging from each vertex.
A triskele, a three-armed cross, made in County Donegal for St Brigid’s Day. The Cross is made of rushes interwoven and takes the form of a triangle with three arms projecting from the three corners.
An illustration of a pinboard with several pages and photographs connected by loops of red string.