Eat This Podcast
1) Cooking in Maximum Security
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.
2) Cash remains a most effective gift
Poor people need money and they know what to spend it on
3) A Berliner Speaks
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.
4) A Fresh Look at Domestication
Selection had nothing to do with transforming grass into wheat, or any other aspect of domestication.
5) Revolutions are Born in Breadlines
Anti-communists sent food and medical assistance. Communist sympathisers sent tractors. And both countries had much to learn from the other.
6) The Spice Bag
The after-hours dish that conquered Ireland and the Irish everywhere.
7) Revisiting Historical Recipes
In the end we can never know what people in the past tasted in their food, but a new method aims to come closer.
8) The Miracle of Salt
A new book shares more information about salt and ways to use it than you can imagine
9) New Light on Neanderthal Diets
“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.”
10) Pellagra
“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.”