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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.

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28:28

Coffee leaf rust is bad news

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2020/10/05

Coffee leaf rust is bad, but at least in the short term it may not be the threat you think it is

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18:02

Carême at home in New Zealand

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2020/09/21

Food for settlers in New Zealand used to be mutton, mutton, mutton and potatoes or potatoes. Not any more.

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30:02

How the chilli pepper conquered China

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2020/09/07

Chilli peppers took a few years to reach China after their initial encounter with Westerners, but rapidly became a very hot item.

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20:57

It’s coffee, but not as we know it

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2020/06/29

In Sierra Leone, a hunt for long lost species of coffee succeeds

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18:04

Alexis Soyer

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2020/06/15

A brief look at the life of one of the first celebrity chefs

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20:35

Questions of Taste

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2020/06/01

Are there any universals about more complex kinds of gustatory taste? And how do we learn to talk about taste?

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21:10

You are what you drink

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2020/05/11

Robert Walpole — like all great politicians — understood how to use his tipple to send a signal

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16:06

Disputations about taste

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2020/04/27

I know taste is entirely subjective. But I’m also willing to think about good taste and bad taste and even to use that as part of a value judgement. How about you?

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29:38

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

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2020/04/13

Norman Borlaug gave birth to the Green Revolution, with little thought for the unintended consequences of his work.

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27:34

Russian Food: Old and New

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2020/03/30

Beyond the North Wind, the true heart of Russian Food

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20:16

The book of the Book of Tasty and Healthy Food

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2020/03/16

A young Russian woman blogs her way through the only cookbook her grandmother knew -- and gets her own book out of it

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27:33

Orange-fleshed sweet potato to feed hidden hunger

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2020/03/02

A food people don't like, and don't even know they need, turns their lives around

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16:22

Another cup of coffee culture

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2020/02/17

It took more than a hundred years, but eventually the United States too developed a recognisable coffee culture.

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29:15

Coffee culture in Italy and England

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2020/02/03

Espresso is the canonical coffee of Italy, even though the original espresso was something entirely different. How did espresso happen? And what happened when it got to England?

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9:39

Why a spurtle makes a superior porridge stirrer

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2020/01/20

With a bag of porridge oats in my baggage, I set off for Georgetown University and a date with science

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18:42

Cow sharing in the European Alps

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2019/12/23

Unlike car sharing, when you buy a share in a cow, you are not free to drive her wherever you want. So what do you get?

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24:50

Pasta Grannies

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2019/12/09

Vicky Bennison set out to record Italian grannies making pasta and along the way created terrifically watchable videos

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18:21

Cashews, the World Bank, and Mozambique

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2019/11/25

Mozambique used to be the world's largest supplier of cashew nuts. Then along came the World Bank, to help.

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31:14

How capuchin monkeys learn about food

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2019/11/11

Capuchin monkeys are resourceful and smart, which helps them to select a good diet from all the potential food around them.

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20:05

Fifty ways to cook a carrot

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2019/10/21

You can't judge a book by its cover. 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot is not really about carrots.

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