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Pepper, butter, foraged food and rice. Diversity, right?

When it comes to cradles of agriculture, West Africa does not often get a look in. The Sahel is better known as a place of famine than of feasting, but it wasn’t always so, and even today the Bamana people of Mali have a rich food culture. Stephen Wooten – that’s him in the picture […]

More than a day after I first heard, I’m still having trouble believing that Eat This Podcast has again been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award.

Measuring obesity, micro-dairies, natural wine, cured meats and soft food.

Today I learned the secret of the strange giant crackers that rescued my chicken sate from being way too goopy.

I’m on what the real professionals call a mission, or, failing that, duty travel. And once again I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. So, rather than admit defeat and just leave well enough alone, I decide to record a little reflection on the food of Indonesia, at least, the food I’ve eaten so […]

Restaurant reviews, fake parmesan, real Prosecco, emulsions and nostalgia.

Karima Moyer-Nocchi is an American woman who teaches at the University of Siena. When she had been here almost 25 years she developed something of an obsession. On the one hand, she watched “a bewildering decline in the quality and craftsmanship of Italian food together with a skyrocketing deification of it”. On the other, “in […]

A lot of bread, a little cheese, and some thoughts on food systems and what constitutes food.

   Huffduff it This year’s Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food was dedicated to The material culture of cooking tools and techniques and was full of fascinating stuff. I especially enjoyed a talk on the hay box, the original slow cooker. The principle is simplicity itself. Bring a pot full of food to the […]