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In the episode on Jewish Food in Rome I made much of the fact that many Jewish Roman dishes are found in restaurants across Rome and beyond. Not just carciofi alla giudia but others that are probably not recognised as Jewish, like cicoria ripassata and aliciotti con l’invidia. By contrast, one that has stayed in […]

The Jewish Community of Rome arrived before the Christian Era and has never left. Its cuisine was created by hardship and ingenuity.

If you’re lucky enough to live in the right place, you may be able to experience real, fresh, whole milk.

When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose … except your life

The first celebrity doctor’s fad diet is still going strong today, 300 years later, and it has a lot to answer for.

“It is about migrations: of ingredients, of recipes, of stories — but most importantly of the people who make them.”

Today is the International Day of Biological Diversity. As it happens, Eat This Podcast today published an episode that raises a question I have seldom seen given any serious discussion. Are rare breeds important for the conservation of genetic diversity? Like all headline questions, the answer is probably “No”. Let me explain.

Accumulating the genetic diversity of birds around the world in a population of truly cosmopolitan chickens

Once upon a time, government made it possible for people to get a good meal at a reasonable price.

One of the nicest things about publishing our recent paper What is Wrong with Biofortification is that it prompted several people to share results and opinions that support our conclusions. Confirmation bias aside, we have not yet had any substantive pushback. This piece was prompted by one of the responses we received. See those beans? […]