Eat This Podcast
@eatthispodcast.com
Talking about anything around food
ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
Eat This Newsletter 288: Adverse
Hello If a study of foods and health suggests “adverse outcomes across nearly all organ systems” I’d want to minimise those foods. On the other hand, banning...
buttondown.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
#food #nutrition #newsletter
It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s.
Sign up at buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/ to get it.
#newsletter #FoodSafety
Sign up at buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/ to get it.
#newsletter #FoodSafety
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s.
Sign up at buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/ to get it.
#newsletter #FoodSafety
Sign up at buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/ to get it.
#newsletter #FoodSafety
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Großartiges Eintauchen in eine Mini-Nische der Forschung:
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
A Fresh Look at Domestication
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Großartiges Eintauchen in eine Mini-Nische der Forschung:
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert?
#NerdsAtWork
A Fresh Look at Domestication
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A Fresh Look at Domestication
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment.
eatthispodcast.com/domestication
#podcast #agriculture #archaeology
More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem.
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
https://foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem.
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s…
Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know.
#newslettere#food_safetyty
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Want to stay up to date on food & nutrition science, politics and culture? Check out The Food Archive and subscribe on the upper right side of the home page: www.thenutritionarchive.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Want to stay up to date on food & nutrition science, politics and culture? Check out The Food Archive and subscribe on the upper right side of the home page: www.thenutritionarchive.com
New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines.
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr
#podcast #agriculture #history
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr
#podcast #agriculture #history
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines.
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr
#podcast #agriculture #history
Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr
#podcast #agriculture #history
Pitchforks! Now!
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Pitchforks! Now!
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Results important because lots of attention is going into this issue (1700 studies!), and this overview strongly suggests there's no strong data on whether food-packaging microplastics are important, and we shld devote attention and effort to issues we know are important (e.g., nitrogen pollution).
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Results important because lots of attention is going into this issue (1700 studies!), and this overview strongly suggests there's no strong data on whether food-packaging microplastics are important, and we shld devote attention and effort to issues we know are important (e.g., nitrogen pollution).
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletter #nutrition
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletter #nutrition
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletter #nutrition
The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletter #nutrition
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletters #nutrition
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletters #nutrition
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletters #nutrition
Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop.
This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
#food #newsletters #nutrition
”We’re talking about 1 in 8 American households and something like 12 percent of all grocery sales in the U.S. ... It’s like watching the worst game of chicken ever, and it’s not clear Democrats or Republicans really realize just how much is at stake.”
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their grocery benefits as Washington remains locked in a shutdown fight. This is really bad.
foodfix.co/the-shutdown...
foodfix.co/the-shutdown...
The shutdown debacle enters its SNAP era — and it’s about to get ugly
Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their grocery benefits as Washington remains locked in a shutdown fight. This is really bad.
foodfix.co
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
”We’re talking about 1 in 8 American households and something like 12 percent of all grocery sales in the U.S. ... It’s like watching the worst game of chicken ever, and it’s not clear Democrats or Republicans really realize just how much is at stake.”
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Nibbles: Millennium #Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana #genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...
Nibbles: Millennium Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana genebank
King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank and... ...Cate Blanchett. Or read about it in The Economist. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm Syste...
agro.biodiver.se
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Nibbles: Millennium #Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana #genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...
In 2008, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. One thing led to another and today you can find something similar not only across Ireland but around the world, as I learned from @gastroirl.bsky.social
eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag
#food #Ireland
eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag
#food #Ireland
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In 2008, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. One thing led to another and today you can find something similar not only across Ireland but around the world, as I learned from @gastroirl.bsky.social
eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag
#food #Ireland
eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag
#food #Ireland
Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Brainfood: Data edition...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Brainfood: Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Consistent global dataset on biodiversity intactness footprint of agricultural production from 2000 to 2020. Spatial dataset shows how global consumption drives ecological degradation. Rapid monitorin...
agro.biodiver.se
October 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Brainfood: Data edition...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
Life's little certainties: birth, death, and school lunch money.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
Life's little certainties: birth, death, and school lunch money.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
Hello The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt...
buttondown.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy
Life's little certainties: birth, death, and school lunch money.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
Life's little certainties: birth, death, and school lunch money.
buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...
Dept. of Good to Have it Confirmed
"There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on."
www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o...
#wine
"There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on."
www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o...
#wine
The Myth of the Sommelier
Is there an art to wine tasting? Do the best tasters really know best?
www.cremieux.xyz
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Dept. of Good to Have it Confirmed
"There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on."
www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o...
#wine
"There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on."
www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o...
#wine
I might be inviting trouble here, but something my guest said on the latest episode of the podcast led me to do some digging, and that led me to write Is Histamine Intolerance a Thing?
www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/is-hist...
#histamine #fermentation
www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/is-hist...
#histamine #fermentation
October 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I might be inviting trouble here, but something my guest said on the latest episode of the podcast led me to do some digging, and that led me to write Is Histamine Intolerance a Thing?
www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/is-hist...
#histamine #fermentation
www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/is-hist...
#histamine #fermentation
Amen.
You don't need guidelines. Eat more veges, eat more fibre, eat less meat - all the other BS is because of interest groups lobbying
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines could be controversial. Here's what to watch for
The health secretary's affinity for saturated fat and his ire over ultraprocessed foods could influence federal food guidelines, expected out this fall.
www.npr.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Amen.
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...
#conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds
#conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds
Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history
Dr Fiona Hay, seed scientist, on why we need genebanks. Prof. Richard Ellis retires. A genebank legend, as Fiona would probably agree. FAO exhibition goes From Seeds to Foods. By way of genebanks, no ...
agro.biodiver.se
October 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...
#conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds
#conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds
Revisiting Historical Recipes
Even if you manage to make an old recipe, you’re left with an insoluble mystery: how should it taste? If you’re in search of some notion of authenticity, that is the ultimate stumbling block. There is just no way to know. Or is there?
eatthispodcast.com/past-taste
Even if you manage to make an old recipe, you’re left with an insoluble mystery: how should it taste? If you’re in search of some notion of authenticity, that is the ultimate stumbling block. There is just no way to know. Or is there?
eatthispodcast.com/past-taste
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Revisiting Historical Recipes
Even if you manage to make an old recipe, you’re left with an insoluble mystery: how should it taste? If you’re in search of some notion of authenticity, that is the ultimate stumbling block. There is just no way to know. Or is there?
eatthispodcast.com/past-taste
Even if you manage to make an old recipe, you’re left with an insoluble mystery: how should it taste? If you’re in search of some notion of authenticity, that is the ultimate stumbling block. There is just no way to know. Or is there?
eatthispodcast.com/past-taste
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
Good morning! If you listen to podcasts, enjoy food traditions, have a listen to my latest episode about Ukrainian food, history, tradition, family & land!
It's an interview with the super-talented @oliahercules.bsky.social who I wanted to speak to for years!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
It's an interview with the super-talented @oliahercules.bsky.social who I wanted to speak to for years!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Ukrainian Food Culture - With Olia Hercules
Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 30/09/2025 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Good morning! If you listen to podcasts, enjoy food traditions, have a listen to my latest episode about Ukrainian food, history, tradition, family & land!
It's an interview with the super-talented @oliahercules.bsky.social who I wanted to speak to for years!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
It's an interview with the super-talented @oliahercules.bsky.social who I wanted to speak to for years!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Reposted by Eat This Podcast
The American Public Health Association is hosting a webinar, "The Changing Climate and Our Food & Nutrition System." Join me and Kris Ebi this Thursday at 3 pm EST. Register here: apha.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ISC-SC Climate and Health Webinar: The Changing Climate and Our Food & Nutrition System. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about join...
This webinar will discuss the bi-directional nature of climate change and sustainable food systems. Please join us for this online seminar on the critical challenge of food security in the world of cl...
apha.zoom.us
October 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The American Public Health Association is hosting a webinar, "The Changing Climate and Our Food & Nutrition System." Join me and Kris Ebi this Thursday at 3 pm EST. Register here: apha.zoom.us/meeting/regi...