Eat This Podcast

Eat This Podcast


Latest Episodes

Leftovers Through History
May 13, 2024

Throughout history, people repurposed food leftovers and surplus and animal byproducts, challenging the modern perception of them as waste.

What is Chametz?
April 29, 2024

In the end, the meaning of chametz rests on history and tradition, and new traditions are possible.

Passover and Easter Revisited
April 15, 2024

Gods original instructions for Passover did not include one of the crucial items on the Seder plate.

Malta Besieged & Black-market Intrigues
April 01, 2024

Ordinarily, evading food rationing in times of war is considered a crime. There are times when it must be accepted as a necessity.

The Case for Folic Acid Fortification
March 18, 2024

The European Union has failed to implement one of the most effective public health interventions, one that the United Kingdom is now able to contemplate.

Anthony Mongiello, Inventor of the Stuffed Crust Pizza
March 04, 2024

Pizza Hut says it invented the stuffed crust pizza. A judge agreed. But Anthony Mongiello has US patent 4,661,361, no matter what the law says.

Prehistoric cooking pots
February 19, 2024

In many respects the diets of farmers and hunter-gatherers were more alike than different

The Invention of Baby Food
February 05, 2024

Commercial baby food was perhaps the original industrial food product, with all that that entails

Black Stoneflower: A unique Indian spice
December 18, 2023

A lichen, which has no taste of its own, contributes hugely to the flavour of many Indian dishes

A New Story for Maize Domestication
December 04, 2023

A close look at more than 1000 varieties of maize solves a mystery about how the crop evolved from its wild relatives.